Rather than write about something I'm good at I thought I write about something I'm struggling with, and my attempts to resolve it. Writing characters with distinct voices.

Comics are usually conversations between characters. Speech bubbles are the preferred way to tell comic stories, as opposed to large ...

It was great to read about the various influences on people's comics last week. I don't know if this topic called for a second part, er, so here it is!

Once again, these are the major influences I've identified for my current comic, Typical Strange. They stretch ...

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Around about Valentine's day, HippieVan's mind turned to thoughts of love… and she conceived of a great newspost idea that was very popular with people! Love triangles are very good for generating drama in your writing without having to worry too much about ...

We've got a brand new community project for the holiday season: Reashi is organizing another annual DD Secret Santa!
The way it works is that participants sign up, request a drawing of something, and then are randomly given another person to do a drawing for in return. Sign up ...

With ozoneocean away having fun this week, it falls to Banes and skoolmunkee to pick up the slack! Our chosen topic is “Challenges” - those longer-term thematic projects you see around, meant to get you off your drawing/writing duff and doing stuff that makes you better. They can be fun ...

from houseofmuses:

Dark Mischief Anthology on Sale Now!
Edited by Jenni Gregory
Cover by Mitch Byrd

Standard Sized Paperback
Full Color
Page Count: 200
POD

Dark Mischief Vol 1 is a full color collection of the spooky and supernatural, featuring stories and art by some of the best creators in ...

Hello, people who like to listen to things! Did you know that Quackcast Episode 13: The Many Ways to Not Work on Your Comic is now available?

Oz and skool discuss their first disagreement on a feature, cementing skool's image as “the evil one”. They then get into a ...

Chomp by Fitz has hit 75 pages today!


Reaching 50 comics on Monday is Armagedon's Shadowjacked!


Genejoke is looking for more artists to work with him on Malefic Tales, a comic where (pretty much) every story is drawn by someone new!

Genejoke
Malefic tales is various stories all set ...

Yesterday, genejoke's Malefic Tales reached 50 pages!

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It also features art from fellow DD'er JZA963 as the comic is a collaborative effort with scripts and art from myself and scripts from Jabberwockyjones and forthcoming one from Dave7. As well as upcoming stories with art from Asbin, Plaguedoctor ...

Joe Pop is a pop musician, not the crap Gaga, Britney, talent-show sort, no, he's the old fashioned working type. Joe Pop and his sidekick Bob the bassist work at their craft of music making, at the mercy of a small record company and the pop-culture world they don ...