In recent years Hollywood has been desperately mining already popular material in the hopes of producing ready-made hits, so we've had a great bonanza of classic Scifi, fantasy and comic book films blasting onto the silver screen with the likes of The Lord of The Rings, The Chronicles of ...
Adaptations
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2014Día de los Muertos
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 27, 2014
Living in Southern California makes me no stranger to to the Mexican holiday of Día de Muertos, otherwise known as Day of the Dead. However, I had never experienced one before and lucky for me, when the opportunity arose this weekend I jumped at the chance.
I decided to dress ...
Get Ready for the Big Ones!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 29, 2014
No, this not “The Big One” earthquake that is supposed to wreak havoc on Los Angeles one day. Today's newspost is to shine a spotlight on the winners of the three coveted DD Awards spots that Niccea likes to call “The Big Ones”. The last day for awards announcements ...
Drawing One-Point Perspective for Comic Backgrounds
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 1, 2014
I may not be the authority on drawing backgrounds in comics. However, I did spend about two years taking several classes centered around perspective drawing so I do know a little bit more than the average bear. The idea that I have is this, as comic makers, we enjoy telling ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Representation in comics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 11, 2014
I've written about Archie comics before - it seems every time I go searching for comic news they've got some new gimmick. (See my “jumping the shark” newspost, about Archie being killed off)
This time, they've added yet another character to the Archie comics line up in an ...
Quackcast 174 - Endings, part 1
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 8, 2014 LISTEN!
- Pic by Genejoke
Content:
This is the end, Beautiful friend, This is the end, My only friend, the end… so drones Jim Morrison in the classic Doors song, but this isn't the end, rather it's a Quackcast ABOUT endings! Today we talk about the ends of stories ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Contribute to the Drunk Duck Awards!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 4, 2014
First of all, happy belated Canada Day to my fellow Canadians and happy Independence Day to our American neighbours! I hope everyone enjoys their patriotic celebrations and some awesome fireworks!
CONTRIBUTE
The Drunk Duck Awards are really getting into gear now, and we need volunteer judges, presenters, and more!
From ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Chevalier available on Kindle!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 27, 2014
“Chevalier” creators Darryl Hughes (aka “TheDeeMan”) and Monique MacNaughton (aka “Coydog”) have released the Kindle version of their new book “Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: For Queen and Country” out now on Amazon.
Synopsis:
“Pledging himself before the High Queen of the Far, Far Away to the task of finding ...