Blessed Days (Ch7 Sneak Peak): “Smoke and Mirrors”; Davidxolukoga’s Origin Becomes a Video Game; Cast Your Vote for Best Presenter in the 2023 DD Awards!!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 16, 2023


Photo: “Chapter 6- Page 110”. Blessed Days. Original story and characters created by InkyMoondrop. (October 2023)

Blessed Days Milestone Announcement

Message from Blessed Days creator, InkyMoondrop:

“Hi!

It's that time again!



The 6th Chapter of Blessed Days comes to an end on the 18th of October! On the 20th ...










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Writing Overpowered Characters

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 22, 2023




One of the most frequent ways to make characters stand out in fiction or myth is to give them a staggering, amazingly powerful ability. Something that mere talent doesn't give you. Something miraculous, larger than the largest life, unique and insurmountable:

Like a dude that can part an entire ...




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I want to talk about boobs

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 2, 2022



There is generally a debate about how women's chests should be drawn. On and off I'll come across whole essays about how drawing women with large boobs is shorthand for sexualization and objectification. There's a lot of talk about how flat chested ladies or those of the ...

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It's the Peak of the Spooky Season!

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 30, 2021



So I want to talk about the Dread Persephone!

We are familiar with Persephone as the abducted bride of Hades, the floral, pastel-themed, light-hearted girl that brings about Spring and is the daughter of Demeter, goddess of nature and the harvest.

But is it really who she is?

No. No ...







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Flipping off the Author

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 23, 2021



So Squid Game is a huge hit, and I'm glad I've been a kdrama fan before it was cool, apparently XD (though granted, it's been cool for a good while for a lot of people)

This is not an article about Squid Game, but it offers the ...



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Back From The Dead

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 2, 2021



So we've talked often about how letting a character die in a story is something that should be used very frugally, because once death occurs, it should be permanent. In most settings, death shouldn't be something that is reversible. If not, it will lose its impact, and the ...

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Character Design Brainstorming: The Monster Among Us

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 10, 2020




We live in a world of routine, predictability, and pedestrian problems. (2020 doesn't count. Much.)

Magic doesn't really seem to exist in our world.

Or does it?

Perhaps we live above a very thin surface, like floating on a tranquil lake, and just underneath it there are ghouls ...








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FEATURED COMIC --> The Muscle Corps

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2018



There is an unidentified teenager on the loose stealing paint, spraying fresh graffiti on the wall, hurting people, and drinking booze. This behavior needs to be stopped by the best group the city has to fight vigilantes: The Muscle Corps! Watch as this unique group of positive crime fighters- Tightwire ...

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Quackast 393 - Set the scene!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 25, 2018

LISTEN!

In THIS Quackcast we chat about shots! The kind you get from a camera… Long short, bird's eye view, worm's eye view, high angle, low angle, wide angle, fish eye, close up, ultra close up… You can use them to set the pace of the narrative, increase ...

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Quackcast 378 - Your best work, Comicsgate, Mark Wade, Tantz comic spotlight, Twitter

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 12, 2018

LISTEN!

We have community contributions for this Quackcast! Many DDers told us about their best work and we read that out and chat about in on the Quackcast. We talking about promoting comics through DD's Twitter account. The DD awards have begun, get in on them and get nominated ...

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