So, I tend to be long-winded. The mark of a historian, probably, or I maybe I just love to hear myself talk. But rarely does that become so evident to me as when I’m turning my comic script into actual comic pages. Suddenly what seemed like a brief remark ...
Getting to the Point
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Sept. 23, 2016QUACKCAST 288 - Evoking too much Emotion
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 13, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Drunkduck's beloved HippieVan was influenced by last week's Quackcast on Evoking emotion to come up with a newspost about NOT invoking emotion when you don't mean to: keeping things funny, even IF heavy stuff happens to be going on, which can be tricky ...
A Comic Idea Is Born
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2016
It is sometimes unclear to recollect the exact moment that a comic idea comes to fruition. Sometimes a comic emerges out of ton of quickly drawn doodles over a span of time before any of the characters have names or the story has a title.
I can recall the exact ...
QUACKCAST 285 - Ride the wave of the Anti-heroes
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 23, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Comedy anti-heroes are a great deal of fun. My faves are characters like Tankgirl and Flashman; they can be selfish, greedy, violent, lustful, out for their own needs first but they still manage to do the “right” thing and vanquish the bad guy along the way ...
QUACKCAST 283 - Writing Dialogue pt1
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 9, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Dialogue is a key part of any comic, it pushes the story along, keys the reader in on things that would be otherwise ambiguous, hints and foreshadows at future happenings, creates humour… well, it's just a big part of comics, that's all! And that ...
Travel Journaling
HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 22, 2016
Hi, all! I’m back from my adventure in Japan – thank you so much to PitFace and Ironscarf for writing amazing guest newsposts while I was away. It’s so lovely being part of a site where someone’s always willing to jump in and help out (and you two ...