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OLD CITY BLUES Issue 15 (April 2024)

Google Drive Download Links: .pdf / .cbz

Thanks for reading!

#comics #old city blues #inspiration

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Akira Toryama "tiny car" drawings. (X)

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listening to phil collins

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Cypress trees and California coast look beautiful today.

#reblog #photography #mood

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Source: 'Day Dream Hour 4' Rakugaki Artbook

by Ryōko Kui

Link to the full Artbook

#dungeon meshi #inspiration #artbook

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#inspiration #mind boggling effects #ps1 #reblog

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Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

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PSA: GO INTO YOUR SETTINGS NOW TO PREVENT TUMBLR USING YOUR INFO TO TRAIN AI.

Tumblr has an opt-out for third-party sharing that allows them to share your blog's information to AI models. This toggle is assuming your CONSENT by DEFAULT. Go into Settings > Blog > Visibility to turn this toggle off.

#reblog #ai bullshit #friendly reminder that I'm on Bluesky and Newgrounds dot com

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AKIRA 3巻冒頭　雑誌版モノクロ→単行本カラー頁 大友克洋 katsuhiro OTOMO

#アキラ #大友克洋 #katsuhiro OTOMO #AKIRA #art #manga #japan #ヤングマガジン #YOUNG MAGAZINE

#akira #inspiration #da colors

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It's Minilla Monday! He made a friend

#minilla #kamata kun #gabara #kaiju #fanart #blood #godzilla #my art #gore

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this scene really highlights one of the most impressive parts of yotsuba to me, which is how effectively its able to recreate for an adult audience the sense of wonder that very young children have towards the world, giving us a taste of just how strange and interesting seemingly normal things are to someone as young as yotsuba. the way the geese are quietly built up to through strange sound effects, and how the camera shows their approach in detail, how it lingers on yotsubas reaction and lets us take in just how new and exciting this is to her, before hitting us with a double page spread of that same thing on an overwhelming scale... its masterful

#reblog #comics #manga #yotsuba #inspiration

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So, I have this advice in my head about comic writing for beginners, it being that first time writers of the medium need to understand that comics are a visual media first and a textual media second and that the artist is usually the one pulling the heavyweights. (no offence)

So, is it good advice or does it need more work?

It's bad advice. I'm not going to deny that even a hardworking writer who does research and test reads and multiple drafts usually spends significantly less time per page than the artist, but that's not really "advice" so much as "a statement", and you didn't actually advise anything in your advice. Are you saying the artist should stay humble? Feel bad? Are you explaining why the writer is usually the one who does the web site stuff as well to try to even the workload slightly? Is this entire ask just attempting to subtly neg me about being a comics writer? What's your point?

But more importantly you're equating "the writing" with "textual media" as in "the text in the narration and dialogue balloons" which is super bad advice if you're a writer working for an artist, because most of the text in a good comics script isn't text that appears on the page, it's the text that tells the artist what to draw. The less good you are at writing this part of a script, the more the final page is going to deviate from what you wrote, so you want to be clear and detailed both in what's happening and why it's happening. When you're writing for prose, you want to try and cut as many useless words as possible, but when you're writing a comic script you're giving directions and you want to make it as clear as you can. This includes things like

Literally what is going on in the story. Alice and Bob are walking down the street carrying shopping bags.

Details. It's late afternoon, and there's no one else on the sidewalk that we can see. Alice is wearing a light yellow sundress. Bob is wearing a thick orange parka pulled close. One of these characters are not dressed appropriately for the season. The sky is cloudy and there's a little snow on the ground, implying it's Alice. They're walking past a store called Carl's Car Calls whose logo is a car on an old-timey telephone.

Emotions/Explainers of what's going on in the story to help the artist make decisions you forgot to think about. Alice is dressed like this because she's been trying to ask Bob out for a while, but every time she does she gets cold feet at the last minute. A writer might not think to make Alice's skin red from the cold, making it clear that she's uncomfortable and drawing attention to her choice of outfit, but an artist knowing the context might think to do that, and help make the writer look smart.

Directorial details. Alice is going to beat Bob to death with the baguette in twenty pages, so make sure it's the most prominent thing in either bag.

Dialogue. BOB: "Carl's girlfriend apparently makes enough that they can afford a new house. I wish I had a girlfriend who got me my bread."

I'm not saying we all have to be Alan Moore writing 1600 words of description for a page of Batman opening a door, and some artists want less guidance than others, but precisely because comics are a visual medium that it's important for the writer to dedicate the overwhelming amount of their time to describing what things, y'know, look like. If you skimp on that stuff you'll describe a character as wearing "an ankle-length skirt" and you'll get the page back and it's like

If you've written for artists long enough, especially as an amateur, you know the pain of getting a page back that's different from what you wrote in such a way that it's create a plot hole or the Chekov's gun you meant to establish is barely even visible or whatever. No skill as a comic's writer is worthwhile until you've developed the skill of telling the artist what they're supposed to draw (and yes the artist is also part of the creative team and different artists have different workflows etc., but that's for lesson 102). If you can't do that, what's even the point of anything else?

#writing advice #comics #thewebcomicsreview #might come in handy someday

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my kuchipatchi plush comes to life to help me

#reblog #helpful

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Forced to be a paranormal investigator

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I came up with two punchlines so I used them both

Also, slight rebranding for these two! (There's no set schedule for these, I'll just draw them when I come up with ideas)

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２０００年

#reblog #inspiration

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How I draw Godzilla 2024 vs 2017

#godzilla #gojira #kaiju #fanart #my art #i'll draw him doing something next time I just busted out the wacom for the first time in a while