As a comic artist you build up a repertoire of marketable skills that people would like a piece of. When you need a bit of money you're able to offer your services, which is very useful! Sometimes people will look at your work and just offer you money to ...
Rain Has its Uses
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 18, 2017
These past few days in Greece we’ve had torrential rains that feel like the prelude to a second Flood- terrible casualties included. And that got me thinking that it rarely rains in webcomics.
Usually the weather is dry in sequential art- perhaps because it’s troublesome to draw characters ...
Quackcast 348 - Action Talking
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2017 LISTEN!
Special treat at the start of this Quackcast, a Spang news announcement from the oooooold days of DD!
This week's Quackcast is on the interesting notion that talking CAN be action. It's based on a newspost of Tantz's. I'm not quite bright enough to fully ...
Political Comics
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 11, 2017
Considering that a lot of comics have politics embedded in their stories or worldbuilding or actively part of their characters’ parameters, what would constitute a political comic as opposed to a comic containing politics?
In my opinion and from the general descriptions of this budding genre, a political comic is ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Spark Book 1
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 8, 2017
In a world that believed in powerful gods, the qualities of demi-gods have entered the gene pool. Unfortunately, a widespread disease has wiped out a large part of the population. Some of the remaining people left on earth are the descendants of banished demi-gods and have become stronger. They have ...
Quackcast 346 - Existential horror
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 31, 2017 LISTEN!
In memoriam of Jason Moon (hehehe)
It caaaammmmme from outerspace… An unimaginably gigantic multi-tentacled green horror, Banes'thulu'Ary'lth! We only caught a glimpse of his heaving, slimy, scaled bulk but our minds couldn't fully comprehend what we saw and we were all driven insane!
In this ...
Talking is Action Too
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 28, 2017
Often in making webcomics, creators may try to have more action than discourse, as it tends to make the comic more visually interesting and give opportunities to avoid ‘talking head’ scenes.
However, I think that sort of conundrum is a potential trap that might prevent creators from truly making use ...
Cosmic Horror
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 26, 2017
So you've got your maniacs, masked or otherwise. Scary! Or how about savage animals from, whether realistic or altered in some way? Or maybe monsters like vampires, zombies, were-folk and…er…mummies are your jam? Or what about ghosts, spirits and alien beasties?
When it comes to horror fiction ...