Yesterday, August 28th, was the anniversary of Jack Kirby's birthday. This has prompted some people to talk about how his work affected them, and made me think a bit about comic book influences and artists we look up to. Although I wasn't actively a huge fan of Kirby ...

FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Comic Book Idols
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2014Staying Positive in Troubled Times
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 25, 2014
I have been trying to avoid the real world news the last few weeks because it just goes from bad to worse to even more worse. Just last night, there was a large earthquake in Northern California, Iceland is getting ready for another volcanic eruption, and Dr. Hammond from Jurassic ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Lite Bites Calling for Artists
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 22, 2014
Lite Bites needs artists! Lite Bites is a long-running community project where artists and writers come together on short comics.
From Genejoke:
“We have various shot scripts awaiting artists, however, in an attempt to try something a little different I'm looking to get Operation moon 2 drawn but a ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Dinnersaurus Rex
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 6, 2014
This fantastically cute comic is about natural survival, making friends with food, and the importance of having to feed a family.
Not enough food in the pantry? That is the dilemma that Mother Dinnersaurus is faced with when breakfast for dinner is no longer satisfactory for her growing children. She ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Lite Bites Reviews
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 1, 2014
Are you up for having people poke fun at your comic? Genejoke is looking for volunteers for Lite Bites to review!
From Genejoke:
“For a little while the lite bites reviews have been ninja reviews, attacking unsuspecting creators with our unique (well unusual) review style. Now we are looking for ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - A New Way Forward for DrunkDuck
HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 25, 2014
After some drama with the website the other day (I'm sure most of you noticed that the site was down for a time) and some cleverness on the part of ozoneocean, I'm writing my first newspost with DD officially under community control.
I'm pretty darn excited, and ...
Quackcast 175 - Endings, part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 15, 2014 LISTEN!
- Pic by Genejoke
Content:
Arrrr, this be the second part of our discussion on writing ENDINGS in stories of all kinds, particularly for webcomics! But we discuss a few movie and TV endings here, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, No Country For Old Men, True Detective, and Dexter ...
Images are fixed, some issues remain
Ozoneocean at 6:02AM, July 10, 2014Images work again now! Yay!
HOWEVER, the reason why we were fixing things in the first place has come back again. this is BAD!!!! So I will need to try and get rid of that issue ASAP.
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Chevalier available on Kindle!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 27, 2014
“Chevalier” creators Darryl Hughes (aka “TheDeeMan”) and Monique MacNaughton (aka “Coydog”) have released the Kindle version of their new book “Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: For Queen and Country” out now on Amazon.
Synopsis:
“Pledging himself before the High Queen of the Far, Far Away to the task of finding ...