The Language of Hands

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 11, 2023



So I know I got two pending articles to finish up my Religion and my Catharsis series but I'm too tired right now to talk about anything that requires sociopolitical analyses and extrapolations.

So let's talk about hands in comics!

One of the easiest way to mitigate the ...





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Dumb can be dangerous

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 15, 2023




So we love our clever villains, our smooth criminals, the conniving sly characters that use their brains to thwart the heroes and be a real menace. Like the riskiest game of chess, the hero has to match that kind of villain in strategy and smarts as well as determination, prowess ...


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On plot armor

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 8, 2023



Ok yes. Plot armor in general is considered a mistake. With good reason. Enough plot armor and there are no stakes left in your plot, and the audience isn't worried your plot-armored characters may not make it. And if there's no suspense, there's no engagement or the ...

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Books of Babel

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 31, 2022


Photo: A collection of “Le Petit Prince” books in various translations.

“Le Petit Prince” (French), “The Little Prince” (English), “Regulus” (Latin), “O Pequeno Principe” (Portuguese), and “El Principito” (Spanish) are a few of the titles of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s book that has been translated over three hundred and one ...


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Defining Events

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 16, 2020



What made a character be who he/she is? What is it that drives them, and why?

That's the allure of any origin story: we get to see how characters we look up to or love or love to hate came to be who they are.

Most, if not ...





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Demons of Darkness Kickstarter!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 23, 2019



Hello I am David, a comic writer! I am currently doing a Kickstarter for a comic that is dark satire on bullying and RPGS.

15 Page Preview https://tinyurl.com/y6zymecs

And the Kickstarter is at - https://tinyurl.com/y4z79zlo

Description:
Demons in the Darkness is a Dark Satire about ...








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FEATURED COMIC --> Breached

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 10, 2019



Shasta wakes up in the middle of a graveyard and receives a note detailing the next action she needs to take. She makes the wrong choice and gets her head blasted off, but luckily for her, she gets a second chance to right her wrongs. Time to make the right ...

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QUACKCAST 416 - Making cuts

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 5, 2019

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Listen on Stitcher ​​- https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/


The entire team is here this time, no one was cut… So we're chatting about CUTTING, as in cutting out scenes to make a story cleaner ...




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Drawn to Brighter Colors

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 17, 2018



The other day while I was crocheting, I noticed that a lot of the yarn colors I had picked out over the years had a lot of grays, warm neutrals, and toned-down, muted shades of color. They were all lovely colors, but my eyes needed something more vibrant and stimulating ...

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Rain Has its Uses

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 18, 2017



These past few days in Greece we’ve had torrential rains that feel like the prelude to a second Flood- terrible casualties included. And that got me thinking that it rarely rains in webcomics.

Usually the weather is dry in sequential art- perhaps because it’s troublesome to draw characters ...



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