FEATURED COMIC --> Lake of No Return

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 16, 2016
tags: by, koustubh, Lake, No, of, rated, Return, T



“I am just a labyrinth of ideas stuck in the middle of nowhere. Death is the only thing that's real. Life is the only thing that deserves saving.”

This first chapter's main title shares its name with Carl Jung's psychoanalytic idea of the the animus, an anthropomorphic ...



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Stories Written for Children (That Might Have Been Intended for Adults)

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 23, 2015
tags: books, haunt, me, that


The Giving Tree, Story and Illustration by Shel Silverstein

I remember reading along with certain children's books that became very near and dear to me as a young kid. Over the years, I revisit the story and it begins to take on a whole new meaning as my perspective ...


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Quackcast 243 - Horror, Terror, Revulsion

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 3, 2015

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Yet ANOTHER Halloweenie cast! This time we used Banes' newspost for inspiration and we talk about the difference between horror, terror, and revulsion in horror themed media along with examples of that in our own comics. We dressed in costume AGAIN, this time Tantz is Zoe from her comic ...

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Terror, Horror, and Revulsion, courtesy of the King

Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 15, 2015



Apparently the difference between “terror” and “horror” was first expressed by writer Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), who said that Terror is the dread and apprehension about something happening, while Horror is the actual encountering the frightening thing.
Maybe this is what they mean when they talk about “suspense” vs. “horror”. Have ...


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Things That Go DUCK in the Night

Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 8, 2015



Horror…and the baddies and creepies and long-legged beasties of horror…come in many flavours.
These divisions might be incomplete or somewhat meaningless in a way, but hey, I have to approach it somehow…

Reality Bites: Human Creeps, Scary Animals and Nature
-Serial Killers, Jason, Michael Myers, The Strangers, And ...





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Then and Now

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 7, 2015



“Save ALL your work. Never throw your old art in the trash!” was a repeated mantra from all my art teachers over the years. The reasoning behind this idea makes sense: Old art is like a time capsule for fresh ideas and it can be a great addition in a ...

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Quackcast 229 - Enter the Dragon's den: comic book shops

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 28, 2015

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Tantz and Pitface join Banes and Ozone to talk about comic book stores and the experience of going into them… Yes, that's right: webcomicers actually going into REAL bricks and mortar places that sell comics printed on PAPER! o_O It turns out that none of us really do ...


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Monday feature -> ELEANOR

skoolmunkee at 12:01AM, Nov. 14, 2011



This beautiful comic is about a young girl who falls from a cliff and the almost magical world she finds as she reaches the bottom. She never truly stops falling (see the comic's tagline) and although she lives, she is haunted endlessly by what she saw. Later pages of ...

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THURSDAY FEATURE --> Just Crazy

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 8, 2011



Jay is a young guy, a bit shy and not very popular but it looks like he might get a girlfriend… That is until an old nightmare comes to life and gets in the way.
Poor Jay is haunted nightly by a strange spirit that keeps on asking him the ...


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New WOWIO promotion for the month of September: FREE Sherlock Holmes comic!

srhdt at 3:28PM, Sept. 9, 2010



WOWIO is doing a free eComic promotion for the month of September in conjunction with promoting the site's Facebook page.

Download the first installment of Bret M. Herholz’s graphic novel, “Sherlock Holmes: The Painful Predicament of Alice Faulkner” — another free book exclusively for WOWIO fans on Facebook ...



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