Anonymous asked: hey so THANK YOU for getting me into duck comics, they are so good! except, is it just me or have the recent IDW comics been uh... really boring? I know you don't like talking negatively about stuff it just feels like, the stories you write are so much more energetic and like the older ones which tackled more interesting subjects
you caught me- I’ve been hesitating on commenting on it bc of personal reasons but, you know? when you’re right you’re right. The writing has had a significant drop in quality, and looking into it there’s a clear change in who the writing/editing team was before and is now- not to say the new writers are to blame, where the pressure and direction for the stories is coming from is always hard to say, but it’s clear that something has happened. It feels like whoever is writing now is targeting a much younger (maybe preschool) audience, but the reason the stories always appealed to me and everyone else is because they didn’t talk down to me as a child, and don’t dull down characters or story topics based off who is ‘expected’ to read them.
Much as with the best ‘children’s’ books, they are universally beloved and successful because they’re just damned good books! It’s a shame to see it, and bizarre, when you see how the European comics still strive to push boundaries and make things that are explorative as well as compelling in a narrative sense. I’m not sure who should be held to account or who needs to hear the feedback, but I think at this point the only way to get the stories back to the quality they used to be is to talk about it. Not unkindly, no raging hoards with pitch forks, but just, make it known that it’s disappointing for the people who have always loved them and off-putting to new would-be readers.
I been working really hard lately SO time for magicstone doodle reward! I seem to remember reading that witches have to brush their hair 100 times every morning or something? dunno if the same applies to sorceresses but it would be a cute thing to help out with =v=
was going to do a 20 page comic about jose and gladstone talking about their past relationship and break up but like. i forgot im lazy and will not clean up AND color 20 pages. sooooo have some yeah. have the drafts
i dont think they would have a proper breakup, given they probably didnt have a proper relationship. i can see gladstone still not completly over it even after years
so I’ve been basically avoiding? learning to draw Gladstone’s hat properly for 2 years and there ain’t no excuse for that (also it is sort of important in the next comic so time to Sit Down and Study) I’m nearly there I think but for those interested in the process (which is similar to how I learn to draw Most Stuff):
a) figure out what kind of hat it is - either a homburg or a fedora (NOT A TRILBY DON’T YOU M’LADY ME) in most comics or at least some sort of crazy hybrid. a homdora. fedburg… a ferg. then like, try drawing real ones of those a while and start edging towards stylising them for comic usage.
b) quickly realize the comics know how to do this much better than I do so look at those real hard and figure out how to break them down for drawing/start blending the notes I had on Real Hats with those to get the look I want
c) get some sort of semblance of understanding of the drawing of hats which is not at all perfect but is at least less bad and uninformed than I was 24 hours ago and I can use to build on and hopefully get better at it as I keep drawing lots and lots of hats forever and ever and eeever
