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In the movie Annie Hall, the main character writes a play and uses it to give his failed relationship a happy ending. There are countless stories where awkward, nervous protagonists…perhaps courtesy of awkward, nervous writers…win the battle, defeat the villains and get the gorgeous girl.
Jesus is running for president under the republican ticket! What could go wrong? Quite a lot it turns out… His beliefs contrast a little bit with those of the party. Jesus goes off message and cross-country on an iconoclastic road trip with Pope Francis and a kid documenting the whole …
This week we have VIDEO of the Quackcast again - a nice condensed 10 minute version. Quackcast 247 is all about what fonts to use for your webcomic, hand lettering, aligning fonts, likes and dislikes, where to find good fonts, what sorts of things to look out for and …
Howdy party people, do you like to draw pretty pictures? Do you like it when people draw pretty pictures for you? Well you are in luck because now you can have the opportunity to get …
this picture is only somewhat related to tone…but it has a costumed baby!
In my early days doing the Quackcast with Ozoneocean, we spent some time talking about story genres. I remember how we ignored whether something was a comedy, drama, or horror, because those aren't stories, but tones. Other …
A light pink woman descends from the sky and winds up in a psychedelic land of blue dinosaurs and strange alien creatures. This super heroine is made of candy and creates a whole new outfit complete with a pink tie just by using her mind. Her super powers include incredible …
Characters you would love in media but hate in real life! -Don't read too much into the cover pic BTW, that was my little joke, as it usually is with these cover pics ;) In this Quackcast, once again we have an ensemble cast of Banes, Ozone, Pitface, and …
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 …
Yesterday evening my friend and I donned our prettiest dresses and went to see The Marriage of Figaro. Neither of us had ever been to the opera before, and we weren't the only ones - it was "student night" where they sell cheap tickets to the final dress rehearsal, so …
There are titles that fit perfectly with their subject, titles that could fit multiple subjects/contexts, and titles that don't work at all. Recently I've seen several titles referenced that made me say "I HAVE to see that/read that!". I'll share those at the end of the article. …
Meet Greta, a good humoured, earthy, pipe smoking woman with a great big box backpack and stylish leather travelling clothes. Greta is an apothecary, she travels the lands curing ills and writing down creatively horrible ailments in her apothecary book. On the way she meets a rather stuck-up knight on …
In Quackcast 245 we TRY to talk about my idea that fictional characters, stereotypes, tropes and situations in media have influenced their counterparts in reality, and in a lot of ways helped to create them. Fictional stereotypes and tropes are made out of simplified models of things that happen …
It had been years since I donned my black cocktail dress to spend an evening listening to one of my favorite writers, and that is exactly what I did on Saturday night. The scene was set in Long Beach at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center and I was excitedly waiting …