The Haunting of Hill House is masterfully done horror with humanity
The Drunk Duck Awards, 2018 are underway! Check 'em out here:
https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Drunk_Duck_Awards_2018/
In the movie “The Innkeepers”, two clerks in an allegedly haunted hotel work on the last night before the place closes down. They ...
Character and subtext in horror
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 18, 20182018 Drunk Duck Awards and Strange Creatures Milestone
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 15, 2018
The first week of award winners have been announced. Niccea would also like to remind everyone that she will be accepting awards extras through the end of the month. Extras are usually acceptance/ concession speeches or other behind the scenes fun.
Send extras to Niccea here:
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Shaking the Pillars part 1
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 11, 2018
Shaking the Pillars part 1 - Losing the Lead
The Walking Dead is apparently killing off its main character this season - this is the guy who's been the main guy since episode 1 about 8 years ago. This is not a spoiler - it's all over the Internet, the promos ...
Quackast 395 - Fighting ladies
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 9, 2018 LISTEN!
Fighting ladies, female bad-ass characters… There are a lot more of them around now, but once upon a time they were pretty thin on the ground. I love a good badarse lady, my own comic character Pinky TA exemplifies that character type. There's something about a tough lady ...
Quackast 394 - Nostalgia, creative fuel?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 2, 2018 LISTEN!
Nostalgia! - Where does it fit in the creative process? People are the product of their influences. For a lot of us the strongest influences happen when we're growing up and learning about the world and all the things IN it for the first time. As you get older ...
99 Dollars and 99 Cents Reaches Milestone and Introduces Scroll-A-Book
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 1, 2018White Swan, Black Swan
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 29, 2018
In Swan Lake, the black swan Odile is transformed by her warlock father into the white swan, Odette, and posing as Odette she tricks the prince into breaking his oath to the white swan- because clearly making life-binding oaths to a woman you know so little you can mistake her ...
The Benefit of Trauma
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 22, 2018
Trauma is such a delicious thing in writing- it gives characters their backstories, their motivation, their special slant in a narrative wrok, from novels to webcomics.
However, it's usually considered in the context of how it has made a character ‘damaged goods’. Why they are grim, why they're ...