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flightyalrighty · 3 months

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What have been some of your big inspirations/points of education* with your comic work?

*could mean learning resources but also just, good advice you got once or improvements to your workflow you figured out

Thanks for this ask!! :]

I went to the School of Visual Arts, where I majored in Cartooning! A lot of what I learned, I learned from Indie Cartoonist Jason Little and DC/Marvel Editor Joey Cavalieri, both of whom taught multiple classes I've taken (mainly fundamental stuff but there were also some extra classes with them like Jason taught my Digital Comics course and Joey taught my History of Cartooning class). I learned how to draw trees from Jason. And from reading Pogo.

I've drawn a lot of inspiration in my storytelling from both Bone and Hellboy, mostly! Both Jeff Smith and Mike Mignola are masters of pacing in comics, and if you happen to be unfamiliar with their works, I can't recommend them enough. Besides those two, the rich, moody internal monologues of Spider-Man: Blue and Spider-Man: Evolve or Die are things I often think about when it comes to dialogue writing. That and (at least when it comes to writing Rouge's dialogue) my older sister. Just, like, in general. Pay attention to how the people around you speak. It helps a ton when figuring dialogue.

Hellboy is getting mentioned again because Mignola's heavy inks are something I like to look over in order to learn from and improve myself. Hellboy, Carl Barks's Donald Duck comics, Asterix & Obelix, Will Eisner's various works, Calvin and Hobbes ALL have this beauty in their inking that can really inspire. Personally, I'd like to get a bit messier with my inking. Messy inks feel so alive. They're so visually interesting.

For colors, I highly recommend this book. I've read it and re-read it as much as possible. It may be for painters, but cartoonists can and should learn from all kinds of art forms. The works of Moebius were also mega foundational for me in learning how to color my comics. The man knew his palettes and how to not confine himself too much to what's "realistic". Speaking of painters (you may roll your eyes at this one) I'm also a fan of Frank Frazetta.

For panelling, I only have one true inspiration, and that's the work of Tess Stone. I grew up reading Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name. It changed how I viewed the limitations of panelling forever. Of course, it may be harder to find that comic these days, so here's a snippet:

Basic advice: really really take your time taking in art that you like, and try to reverse-engineer how it was made in your head. Heck, even if there's art you DON'T like, overall, but has elements you DO like, you can learn from that, too!

Okay! Sorry for rambling! Now here's the thing you're actually here for:

How To Think When You Draw collection of REALLY GOOD tutorials for whatever you need, these guys helped me out a ton when I was figuring the jungle scenes early in Infested.

This Pinterest Which Has Absolutely Everything You Can Possibly Think Of For References And Inspiration Sources.

An Extremely Good Font Site That Is Used By Professionals In The Comics Industry To Letter Their Comics.

The Most Important Book Any Cartoonist Can Read

A Different Book By The Same Man About Making Comics (for free, thanks Internet Archive)

Perspective For Comic Book Artists, thanks again Internet Archive

As for workflow... Man, I wish I could give you any kinda advice on that. I'm struggling with it, myself. I guess I've got two things?

If you have multiple deadlines for, say, multiple commissions or something, or you're trying to put out a weekly comic, but you're also doing something else, break the day up into time slots for each project, and switch the moment it's time to. Keep yourself on that schedule. I'm not very good at this.

I draw pretty detailed thumbnails, so sometimes I'll skip the penciling step in comics and blow up the thumbnail to ink over that. It's faster for sure! It's not always the right solution, however.

Thanks for reading! I hope any of what I've said helps at all!

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astrodances · 2 years

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Dose the food replicator understand what Donald is saying

This question legit made me laugh for like five minutes straight when I first read it, so thank you for that. XD This feels like the most quintessential question you could get from crossing these two universes over haha! XD

But for real, this is a good question. The food replicator, I'm sure, is tied into the universal translator, so you would think its matrix could decipher even Donald's voice, given all the other alien languages it's encountered. And I mean, I might just go with this being the easy answer and call it a day. The universal translator is pretty sophisticated technology, after all.

But...depending on my previous notes and answers, and the timeline of all the things, one of two things could be the case:

When young Donald and Della first arrive on the Klondike (and have presumably come from a household that didn't rely on replicators, or Della's usually there to interpret for him, and/or there's still touchscreens?), maybe the ship's replicator either only sometimes understands Donald and gives him the wrong things ("I said 'juice', not 'books'!"), or just doesn't understand him at all. So he takes it upon himself to finally do something about it, and he starts to tinker with the replicator in his and Della's quarters. There's probably some shenanigans involved, but eventually he makes the replicator and the UT understand him, and that becomes his first taste of engineering!

This was actually my initial idea, but given the timeline and the whole B.O.Y.D.-colony thing, it might not work, but...I was thinking that maybe at the Academy (or, if I can really make it work, when they're kids!), a young Gyro Gearloose sees Donald having trouble with the replicator, and he takes it upon himself to find a solution. There's more shenanigans, misunderstandings, and some bonding involved here, too, but in the end, Gyro comes through, and the two of them become friends to some degree. (Though this might be where the Della-Gyro teasing begins?)

Either way, by the end of these situations, we're left with a new invention: an "external" Barksian Modulator. It's a device for the UT that allows the replicator, and all computer/ship systems, to understand Donald's voice - basically, the computers hear what we heard in "Shadow War!"

Now this does come with an important question or two: does this mean that everyone else will also hear Donald's smooth voice through the UT (since the listener hears things in their own language through the UT, and the Modulator might consider Donald's unique voice a different language, in a technical sense)? That could have some emotional storylines, or maybe it is just a modulation for the computer, and everyone else still hears Donald's normal voice.

The other important smaller question is, will this be a device/software that Donald has to bring around with him from ship to ship, at least at first? Gonna go with probably not, or at least not for long: the UT is built into combadges and computers, so it probably should be easy enough to submit it to whomever oversees the UT and have them integrate it into the software on a Federation/Fleet-wide level. The UT is learning new languages and adapting them all the time, and this would just be another for the books.

And last thought: I think I will be able to use Barksian Modulator as the name here still. I'm sure there was some inventor/linguist/scientist/engineer by the name of Carl Barks well before Donald and Gyro's time who probably had a hand in creating the UT, and his work specifically influenced their ideas for the Modulator. ;)

#Astro answers #DuckTales #Star Trek AU #me doing jazz hands and a spooky voice: 'Ideas...' XD

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galoots · 3 years

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wait, what? I thought Della was Donald's sister in the comics? she is in the Life and Times at least- and I am pretty sure the series where they're all young kids. I'm confused, could you please tell me when/where is she depicted as his cousin?

Ok so, I swear I've covered this before but here's the breakdown. The triplets were invented in 1937 by Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro. They were essentially added in as trouble-makers to spark Donald's temper for hijinks in the comic. In the comic which they were introduced, Donald gets a letter from a Cousin Della to take care of her kids for the forseeable future. She's never seen in the comic, she was created as a vehicle to introduce the triplets. Presumably, this leaves room to write the triplets, and their mother, out if they proved to be unpopular in the comic strips. Of course, we know that they become staples of the Disney canon and start showing up in cartoons and comics. The following cartoon, Donald's Nephews, in 1938 refers to a "sister Dumbella" instead of a cousin Della, but again she never shows up.

They essentially get revamped for later cartoons and comics as the smart, sensible, often noble straight men to Donald and Scrooge's outlandish antics. In a 42 cartoon, the nephews are shown to be adopted by Donald, getting rid of the Della explanation. Della continues to almost never be mentioned except in passing and not always by that name (Carl Barks called her Thelma, a name I kind of like better now to be honest). Her first, or at least most significant appearance in English language comics is in Life and Times where she's Donald's twin sister.

However, Della being Donald's twin sister raised some timeline issues which prompted this quote from Don Rosa:

"Yes, I DO like the idea of Donald and Della being twins. But, as you say, if I simply OMIT that one comment, everything works out fine just as it is (...) Della and Donald still look like twins, and maybe they are... but I don't think anyone can trip me up on years if I don't nail it down needlessly. I think my Duck Family Tree will be in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories #600, but naturally birth years won't be listed, and it's not possible to tell if siblings are twins or not on that tree."

So are they twins or cousins? Sure, kinda. Whatever you want it to be really. Its open to interpretation. Della's almost never had a part to play in the comics besides that one Dutch comic where she's an astronaut.

Personally, I've don't care too much about questions surrounding Della's status or the triplet's parents, because Donald consistently fills that role in the comics and cartoons. Della was a mechanism to introduce them for the comics that happened to mention her and her reasons for never being around aren't really questioned. I always chalk it up to "eh its cartoon/comic hijinks don't worry about" because Disney characters gain nephews and nieces like they were collectible figurines, and these questions are rarely ever asked of Mickey's niblings, or Goofy's, or Fethry's, or that one nephew Gladstone had at one time.

In the end, Della's status as Donald's sister, her design, her character, even her name are all largely dependent on the source, and are rarely consistent. Only the recent reboot actually wrote her in as a full fledged character and honestly I don't care for what they did with her. (But the issues I have with turning Della into a character are a separate issue for another post.)

The reason I refer to her as Donald's cousin is because its the interpretation I prefer, and its the one I've written into the LDU. Is it law? No. Am I terribly interested in arguing about a this specific cartoon duck and her familial status? Also no. If you prefer her to be Donald's sister, go for it. But bear in mind that's heavily dependent on your source and when people talk about Donald Duck media, they are not always referring to the recent cartoon.

#ok we good?#no one ask me about della again?#im just tired of that question honestly #i know you mean no harm #but as I've stated many times #i don't post about ducktales #so asking me about it is pretty useless lol

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modmad · 4 years

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Hi! I've been following you for awhile because of TPoH, and then your duck content sent me into a looong spiral and now I'm trying to find more. :x Is there a good online resource for finding/reading the duck comics?

there’s this old links post I made but I haven’t actually used the website in an age- be careful! even when I used it they had a buuuunch of ads, so be sure you have very good adblocking on your computer. if it’s still working though it has pretty much all the old Carl Barks and Don Rosa which are great- there’s a paragraph in this links post called Good Stuff Stories and I recommend you start there! there’s even a little collection of Gladstone-centered tales :> but the best one to start with is probably the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

also I confess I am reluctant to promote this post nowadays, just because I want there to be a legit way of supporting these comics- but there really isn’t outside of buying the hardback compilations and I still want folks to read the stories! I pray for a day when they make an official online archive....

#duck comics #comic links #hmu if the link isn't working #I'm not on the right computer to go check that myself rn!#reynheardt

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