Photo: “Inside the Crater at Haleakalā”. Maui, Hawaii. Photograph taken by kawaiidaigakusei. (January 2024)

I reached the crater of the volcano after taking the winding road to the peak. My single sweater was not enough protection to go against the elements and I longed for the second sweater I left ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.

This week I wanted to look at a comic that was brought up in the comments of my previous post when discussing framing of panels. It's always a fun opportunity to write ...

Photo: “En Guarde”. Thriller Made of Vanilla 2nd Aniversary Remake created by HawkandFloAdventures. (January 2024)

January was off to an exciting start when HawkandFloAdventures decided to recreate pages from the original “Thriller Made of Vanilla” chapter from the main comic “Hawk and Flo Adventures—Part One: Ice Cream Truck of ...

A fun type of character is the Comedy Villain. This is not a comic relief character in a more serious story; this is the Villain in a Comedic story or series. Actually, they MIGHT be the funniest character - but we'll get to that in a bit.

The legendary comedy ...

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This Quackcast is about using influence wisely! I had a DD comic creator come to me, apparently a bit distressed at some of the things we'd said in our last Quackcast about drawing adult comics- they ...

Today’s Character Deep Dive is about the amazing Khthonis from Tusk by the awesome Fallopian Crusader!

What can anyone say about Tusk that hasn’t already been said?? It’s a simply gorgeous fantasy action comic centering around the adventures of an orc warrior lady named Khthonis. The art ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.

It's always a treat when I see something done in comics I haven't really seen before. It's not exactly a rare thing, but when you have read as many comics ...

The next Anthology of Duck comics is in development - Remember to vote for the title! The thread is here:

https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/179106/


Here's some writing advice from Neil Gaiman, writer of comic books and other media. They're outstanding of course.

The Rules of Writing ...

Book of Desolation

This is not actually a comic but more of a sourcebook. I've always loved source books, ever since I got the starwars sourcebook way back before the prequals. It's great to see worlds get expanded outside of the original movie, comic, book , whatever. This one ...

I've only read three books in my life.

Okay, that's not true - over the years I've read nearly a dozen.

But the first art-instruction book I used (at least, the earliest one I can remember) was this book
about using basic shapes to draw animals.

It was ...