always someone breakinnn' into twooooo…
AN important part of a story is the good old “Break into Act 2”.
It's not the easiest story structure moment to recognize, but it's one of the early ones I thought about and tried to notice in movies I watched.
Many people ...
The Break Into 2
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 9, 2025Poetry Time 103: First Twenty-Five
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Jan. 5, 2025
As the new dawn goes we sprinkle the seeds of unbound rascality
The calamity of the bygone drive-by solitude
For the youth that sows we sink our deeds in offshore synchronicity
The simplest treaty of the offbeat blastoff attitude
As the new dawn goes. As our yesters close. As first ...
The Comic Strip
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 2, 2025
a couple of three-panel archie newspaper strips.
When I was a kid in Canada, we had “Saturday Funnies” in the newspaper. These were full pages (if memory serves, it was maybe 2-4 pages) of full color cartoons. You had your Beetle Bailey, your Family Circus, your Andy Capp, your Marmaduke ...
Character Deep Dive: Vladimir Chekhov
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2024
It’s time for another Character Deep Dive, this within the amazing political war thriller The Second Crimean War by the awesome and proliferate The Doodler!
The Second Crimean War is an alternate history webcomic, of a different 1995 where, after the collapse of the USSR, the emerging, independent Ukraine ...
Not Because it is Easy, but Because it is Hard
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 12, 2024
In our Quackcast about Non-Linear storytelling this week, I had a tangent of a thought about the value of difficult or challenging fiction as opposed to stories that are easier to understand.
An unusual structure to a story can be challenging to understand, but if it's done well, the ...
I May Not Know Art But i Know What I Like. Except When I Don't
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2024
I've been VERY slowly working on new comics ideas…way too many of them…for several years now. One of the decisions for me is what kind of STYLE the comic should be.
To be clear, I'm not a phenomenal artist, to say the least. So i don ...
Quackcast 714 - Future Weapons
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 19, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Last week we had an overview of weapons throughout history and how it's a constant game of balance and oneupmanship. Now we're looking at future weapons and Scifi stuff! There's a lot of potential ...
Front and Back
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2024
I'm not sure if I've written a post about this already, but an interesting thing we have to think about sometimes with comics is how to make the characters, the foreground, stand out from the background.
Here are my notions on that:
- using human natural ability and instinct ...
How Dan Da Dan saved me from existential dread
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Nov. 9, 2024
My comic partner and I have already started work on our comic projects for next year. The beginning of the year is always crazy for us, so we’re using the small grace period we have now to try and front load our comic work as much as we can ...
Quackcast 711 - Lost Boys
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 29, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Halloween is on the way and we always do something different for it. This time we're doing a commentary for the 1987 vampire movie The Lost Boys! We even dressed in Lost Boys themed outfits for ...