Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.
Last time we had a look back at the work of the great Akira Toriyama, as a sort of a breaking/emergency version of the column. This week I wish to return to ...
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hpkomic at 3:20PM, March 22, 2024Top Five Tales of Bands
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 21, 2023
Having a love of music, forming a band, struggling together, maybe rising to fame and fortune, then falling from those heights, and then figuring out what to do next…it's a version of the Hero's Journey that can be found in real life.
There've been plenty of ...
Another Approach to Story Structure
Banes at 12:00AM, March 16, 2023
I'm a big fan of story structure. It can be a big help to figuring out how to put a story together in a way that works. Not that structure needs to be followed in a slavish way, or that one structure applies to every story.
But it can ...
Panel By Panel: Let Me Ask You Something
hpkomic at 12:53PM, Feb. 24, 2023
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I wanted to try something different. I'd like to ask you all some questions. I have plenty more panel analysis articles, but I also want to mix things up.
I ...
Prose v Comics
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 23, 2023
When I first started putting together my story idea for Typical Strange many years ago, I imagined it to be an animated series. With a lot of time and effort and learning Toon Boom software along the way, I had a pretty strong idea of the main characters, and a ...
Seeing the Whole Thing At Once
Banes at 12:00AM, March 10, 2022
I like the feature in my art program that allows me to see all the pages in progress at once.
Professional TV and film writers use a bulletin board with index cards to map out their stories - I've tried this a few times and it makes sense to me ...
When a story feels too much like a story
damehelsing at 12:00AM, Nov. 28, 2021
~Today we have a guest article from Andreas_Helixfinger! Enjoy the read!~
Hey everyone!
It’s you’re one vocal swedish guy on the the Duck Webcomics Andreas Helixfinger. I decided to tune in and do one of these sunday articles after discovering this smaller Youtube channel called TheBurgerkrieg, where the ...
Interviewing Miranda of "Into the Swell"
damehelsing at 12:00AM, July 25, 2021
Hello ducklings! I’m back with another interview, and this time we’ve got our wonderful sea captain Miranda! So, Captain Miranda, please introduce yourself!!
Miranda: Hello ducklings! I'm Miranda! I'm a full time computer engineer and in my spare time I enjoy baking, doing puzzles, playing video ...
The Dark Turn
Banes at 12:00AM, May 27, 2021
Hey, I found an image of the actual moment! yeah, real good, there
Last time we took a look at the little moment in some stories where a character has a moment and realizes that in spite of being able to get what they want (valuable magic rocks, or to ...
Horror is in the Eye of the... Beholder?
damehelsing at 12:00AM, April 11, 2021
See what I did there? It’s an image of a Beholder… which normally has one giant eye right in the center of their face/body and the article is titled HORROR (the Beholder is scary looking) is in the EYE of the BEHOLDER? Yeah? No? Ok…
Seriously tho,
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