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Ayn Rand and The Fountainhead movie poster
Separating the art from the artist, the message from the messenger… Can you do this?
You know, when you find out an actor, musician, comic artist or whatever is an arsehole or says things you disagree with or is a criminal, can ...
QUACKCAST 292 - Separating the art from the artists
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 11, 2016QUACKCAST 291 - The philosophy and politics of comics
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 4, 2016 LISTEN!
Raphael's School of Athens.
This week's Quackcast is brought to us by Tantz Ariene! Tantz is a very political creature, seeing as she comes from Athens which is pretty much the birthplace of politics AND philosophy, that's hardly surprising. Clever Tantz in her tantzglasses, dudeman Banes ...
The Webcomic Artist Manifesto
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 26, 2016
(From the desk of kawaiidaigakusei)
Here is a little treat to celebrate the first week of Autumn. I wrote this version of “The Webcomic Artist Manifesto” in the Fall quarter for an art history class on Dada. A Manifesto is a public declaration used to incite or inspire a group ...
QUACKCAST 289 - Managing your personal brand
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 20, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
This time we're talking about the weird notion of managing your online brand: what name do you publish your creative works under and how do you go about curating that? It's an idea I had after a great artist friend of mine known as ...
QUACKCAST 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 ...
QUACKCAST 287 - Evoking emotion
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 6, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Evoking emotion in your readers/having emotion evoked from comics: How do you do it? what are some mistakes/ineffective methods? As a comic creator you use a whole bunch of different ways to evoke emotion than say a novelist or a film-maker- you don't ...
Web VS Print
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2016
-Guest Post written by Prototype
I believe webcomics authors are often too eager to mimic our paper print cousin. We try to make our comics as close to a normal issue as possible with format and length when we in fact should embrace the stuff we can do better. We ...