There is a town called Eau Claire in Northwestern Wisconsin, East of Menomonie, and neighbor to Chippewa Falls. Fresh in recent history, the Stick-Figure Apocalypse is a journal comic that began at the start of the global pandemic of 2020 and serves as a written record of the local events ...
Quackcast 325 - walk the line
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 30, 2017 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
In this Quackcast we cover the Importance of good linework in comics and different line techniques such as Herge's Ligne claire, the traditional thick line for characters and thin for everything else as exemplified in the work of Mucha, variable line widths as in Manga ...
Stories Written for Children (That Might Have Been Intended for Adults)
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 23, 2015
The Giving Tree, Story and Illustration by Shel Silverstein
I remember reading along with certain children's books that became very near and dear to me as a young kid. Over the years, I revisit the story and it begins to take on a whole new meaning as my perspective ...
QUACKCAST Episode 128 - Ozone and Banes Print Comic origins
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 4, 2013 LISTEN!
Summary:
Like Quackcast 127, 128 is about early print comic influences, except this time it's the influences of Banes and Ozoneocean. We have a good long chat together about some of the old print comics that had the biggest influences on us in our early days of comic ...