There is no story without a theme. Even when written without anything prepared in terms of a message, a story will always give people things to think about and messages drawn from how the story was set up and how it was resolved (if at all).

So I don't ...

Critics, professional or not, identified a trend in many of the…lesser regarded manga and anime series.
It's the “everyman hero”.

This school of thought is that to make a lead character who is identifiable to everyone in the readership or audience. So the lead will be unremarkable, and ...

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“The Girl Boss in the sausagefest”
Pitface and Tantz chat are here to chat with me about the subject or lady Barbarians: What they look like, where ...

This trope might come in several different packages, but it always involves the same stages: a presence (a character, an apparition, an item, a painting, etc) appears to be perfect, gorgeous, stunningly beautiful, angelic in every way relevant. Then suddenly or gradually, this beauty dissolves into nightmarish horror: the character ...

Welcome to…
The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 8.


What we have for you today webcomic fashionistas is a lady called Rose Red from a short story called System Support from a comic called Hentai Action Theater. It's the first adult comic in the spotlight so DO NOT click on ...

Characters and Backgrounds … and Compositing Different Styles


when I started putting my webcomic out I'd been drawing for most of my life already, and knew the characters and setting really well. The stories I would figure out as I went…and still do.

As far as the art goes ...

Penguins are dressy little birds in white tie that swim like fish and only live in the coldest places on the entire planet, right? Wrong! They live a bit further afield than that, like the good birds of Latitude Zero, living together on the lovely tropical Galapagos Islands, hence the ...

I wandered into one of those gaming shops that specialized in acrylic hobby paint, paintbrushes, and miniature figurine kits while locally window shopping for the holiday. The interaction went like this:

Me: “Hello, do you know of any fantasy table-top role playing games happening in the area?”

Clerk: I am ...

In the behind-the-scenes interviews about the show “Seinfeld”, Writer/Creator Larry David talks about the ending of an episode, I think it's “The Marine Biologist”.

To sum it up, the show is about fairly normal-yet-eccentric antics of the four characters, including George claiming to be a marine biologist to ...

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 ...