Today we’re tackling Stringy from the action-packed comic Stringy and Mopy by MegaRdaniels!
As with every character deep dive, I seek to do as thorough an analysis as possible with what I’m given for the character requested. (By the way you can sign up here if you want ...
Character Deep Dive: Stringy from Stringy and Mopy
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 16, 2024Social Issues in Fantasy (Part 2)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 10, 2024
Last time I'd talked about rather superficial and/or inappropriate attempts to weave commentary on real world social issues into a fantasy or scifi world. The discussion in the comments was FANTASTIC! I urge everyone to have a look if you haven't already.
The general consensus was that ...
Quackcast 673 - By their deeds you shall know them
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Art Vs the Artist part 2
Here we're fulfilling the promise of Quackcast 671 and examining what the art can tell us about the artist! Can certain themes, an art style, choice of imagery, jokes, humour ...
Bravo1102’s Interstellar Battle Girls Blazes to 250 Milestone; HawkandFloAdventure’s Phantom Force 3000 Book Cover Released; JohnCelestri Completes Book One of Bloodwing Fire Fist Angel
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 5, 2024
Photo: “Second round All-seeing and The Federation page 246”. Interstellar Battle Girls created by bravo1102. (January 2024)
Message Regarding Interstellar Battle Girls
Time: 07:24AM
Day: 30 January 2024
Subject: Interstellar_Battle_Girls has reached 250 pages
Bravo1102 writes:
“Amazingly the auto text suggested Interstellar_Battle_Girls reaching 150 pages. Well it has now ...
Creator Interview: Inky Moondrop
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 27, 2024
Welcome to the first interview of the Creator Interviews! Today, we're asking the awesome Inky Moondrop questions about her, her DD award winning comics, her art, and her creative process.
I'm not using the royal ‘we’ by the way. While some questions come from me, most are from ...
Character Deep Dive: Khthonis from Tusk
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 13, 2024
Today’s Character Deep Dive is about the amazing Khthonis from Tusk by the awesome Fallopian Crusader!
What can anyone say about Tusk that hasn’t already been said?? It’s a simply gorgeous fantasy action comic centering around the adventures of an orc warrior lady named Khthonis. The art ...
The Final Countdown
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 30, 2023
So 2023 is almost over! In just a few days we'll all be correcting every document we date for a month or so.
As is tradition, as the year ends we look at the crop, so to speak: everything that happened, what changed us, what helped us, what undermined ...
Twenty Six Hours in Philadelphia
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 18, 2023
Photo: “La Mariée Mise à Nu Par Ses Célibataires, Même (The Green Box)”. Marcel Duchamp. 1911-1915. Photograph taken by kawaiidaigakusei. The Philadelphia Museum of Art. (December 2023)
Tomorrow will mark one month of continuous cross country travel in the most real Kerouac sense of the word. The trip across the ...
Zines!!!???
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 1, 2023
Zines were in the news recently
(https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/nov/28/zines-exhibition-brooklyn-museum-art)
What’s a zine you might ask? It’s a small print run, usually small sized, amateur magazine. Often using photocopied pages, hand stapled, and it can be very unpolished in terms of content, but ...
Incorporating Catharsis
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 18, 2023
Last time I talked about catharsis I focused on how important it is in a story, whether by its presence or absense. This time I want to talk about how to incorporate it in a story.
To give a brief recap, catharsis is the feeling of release of powerful emotions ...