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Good Starts: Beginnings, again.

HyenaHell at Feb. 17, 2017, midnight



Welcome back, gang! Er, can I call y'all “gang”? Is that too informal or too assumptive about your willingness for complicity in my extra curricular activities? Eh, too bad. Once you're in the gang, there's only one way out. Now, while you're letting that sink in let's get back to …

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What's It About?

Banes at Feb. 16, 2017, midnight
tags: act 2, banes, premise, story, thursday, writing



ACT 2 - The Premise

It's about a guy who…

When we try to decide with our friends about seeing a movie, or surf Netflix for something to watch, or try to sell people on a movie/book/story we want them to experience, that's what we have to tell them. That's …

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FEATURED COMIC -> TRUMPed

Ozoneocean at Feb. 15, 2017, midnight
tags: FEATURED COMIC, TRUMPed



Rawdale is fast becoming our resident political cartoonist! Hot on he heels of Jesus 2016 comes TRUMPed, a humorous and satirical take on the start of this latest US presidential administration. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Trump is a pretty ridiculous figure who's pretty damn …

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Quackcast 310 - Where to begin

Ozoneocean at Feb. 14, 2017, midnight
tags: Banes, featured comic and music, Gunwallace, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 310, Tantz Aerine, The Archer and the Squirrel, Webcomics community, Where to begin

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Where to start; in the past, present, or future? Will you structure your story in a linear way or do something more complex? This was the topic of Hyena Hell's newspost on Friday and in this Quackcast Pitface, Banes, Tantz, and I discuss and mull over the ideas ourselves, …

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Coydog and TheDeeMan Start Crowdfund Campaign to Complete Publication of "Chevalier" Book Series

kawaiidaigakusei at Feb. 13, 2017, midnight
tags: Chevalier, Coydog, indiegogo, KAM, KAMics, MILESTONE, Mouseketeer, Queen, The, TheDeeMan



Coydog and TheDeeMan have started an indiegogo campaign to complete publication of our “Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer” children's book series. If you remember, “Chevalier” ran here on DD and won the DD award for “best all ages comic” in 2013 and 2014. Here's the link to their indiegogo campaign:

Chevalier …

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Adapting Myth to Modernity (part 1)

Tantz_Aerine at Feb. 11, 2017, 5:03 a.m.



In a chat where we were discussing our comics, Pit-Face told me that if Bones from Putrid Meat is Odysseus, then Blitzov from Epic of Blitzov is Gilgamesh. And that very solid analogy of the two characters’ function in her stories, got me thinking about how myth of all sorts, …

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Start... Uh... Where?

HyenaHell at Feb. 10, 2017, 1:02 a.m.



Huh. You're still here? I'll be damned.

Well then. Let's just go ahead and pick up where we left off last week, which if I recollect, was the beginning. Or at least, that's where you stepped into my world. Now, how you think about beginnings has a lot to do …

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Writing a Scene and the Hobbling of IMDB

Banes at Feb. 9, 2017, midnight
tags: banes, reprise, scene, writing



I was actually asked some writing questions the other day. Who the deuce would ask ME for advice? But I happened to have a little.


Here are some thoughts on writing that smallest unit of a story: the scene (reprise):


First off, what is a scene? What defines it?

It's …

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Quackcast 309 - boring action scenes

Ozoneocean at Feb. 7, 2017, midnight
tags: Banes, boring action scenes, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Kingdom of the Red Rose, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 309, starfox adventures the comic, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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*Art by Ozoneocean

What makes an action scene boring? Action scenes should be exciting and fun, but often it's just the opposite!
In this Quackcast we discuss the topic of Tantz's newspost from the other day and tackle this hard question.
These were Tantz's conclusions:
- You don’t yet …

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This Year's New Resolutions (a bit late)

kawaiidaigakusei at Feb. 6, 2017, midnight



At the start of the new year, I decided to make a couple resolutions. The first was that I am not going to buy any new clothes this year because I invested in a sewing machine because I plan to sew my own outfits from fabric.

The second resolution is …

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Boring Heroes, Fun Villains

Tantz_Aerine at Feb. 4, 2017, midnight



It’s something so often encountered and/or mentioned in stories (be they comics or novels or film) that it’s becoming in itself a cliché: Heroes aren’t interesting because they’re straight arrows. Villains are fun because they’re the ‘bad boys’, the ones that can do all the shady things and that makes …

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Of course I know what I'm doing.

HyenaHell at Feb. 3, 2017, midnight
tags: Friday, Hyena Hell, newspost



Every good story (true, fabricated, or more typically, somewhere in between) here in the City That Forgot to Care, begins with a thoughtful pause, a drawn out “Well,” followed by the phrase “what had happened was…”

“Who drank my beer?”
“Dude, what happened to your face?”
“Why are you carrying …

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Playing with Time

Banes at Feb. 2, 2017, midnight
tags: banes, drawing, pacing, slowing down, thursdays, timing



Time doesn't really exist in comics. Someone can blast through multiple pages in seconds, or linger on one panel for years. Well, that would be rare. But you see what I'm saying.

What if you want to make your readers slow down? To give your pages the pace you want? …

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