Recently I had the pleasure of spending a few day's in my country's capital city, Ottawa. Among museum trips, walks along the canal, and an awesome sound and light show at our parliament building, I managed to coerce my best friend into visiting a couple of comic book ...
Exploring new comic book stores
HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 17, 2015Fan Service in Comics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 26, 2015
This post was inspired ozoneocean's forum thread about sexism, as well as a recent update by JustNoPoint. (Quick note: none of my comments about fan service are directed at JNP's work! It was just his joking about fan service that had me thinking about it.)
“Fan service” can ...
FEATURED COMIC --> The Temple at Fifty Fathoms
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 20, 2015
Summary:
The Temple at Fifty Fathoms is a bright, freaky, tripped out looking comic by Skreem. True to his unique writing style, the characters are idiosyncratic, very properly, yet comically British, and really quite insane. What as Miss Tiddlseford and Doctor I-Don't-Beleive-You try and prove the poor miss Sorrow ...
Quackcast 219 - Sexy and attractive characters, Part 3
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 19, 2015 LISTEN!
Image by Ozoneocean
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And now for the last in our series of questioning just what makes characters sexy and/or attractive! We have more interesting contributions to read from and delve into but we thought we'd stop for now so we don't waste all our sexiness ...
How do you store your art supplies?
HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 15, 2015
I realized yesterday, after climbing precariously on boxes in the basement while frantically looking for my acrylic paints and ultimately giving up, that I need a better system for storing my art supplies. While I tend to be an untidy person, most of the things I care about (my books ...
QUACKCAST 213 - What makes a good character? Part one
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 7, 2015 LISTEN!
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After several interesting discussions about Mary Sues, we'd like to talk about characters a little more.
We asked people to let us know their thoughts on what makes a well written character VS a poorly written one. People talked about their favourite and least ...
FASHION OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS: An Earth Day Gala
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 6, 2015We now interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you…
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FASHION OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS: AN EARTH DAY GALA
Above (L to R): Leona by kawaiidaigakusei, Rick Devon by JustNoPoint, Princess January by VinoMas. All dressed in original VinoMas designs.
Art by VinoMas.
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Monthly art contests? Input needed!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 27, 2015
First of all - I'm going to be taking about three weeks off so that I can finish my course work for this year. (Anyone want to write a historiography paper for me? Please? No? Okay.) It would be great to have some guest newsposts to fill my Friday newspost ...