Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.
This week I want to explore one element of art I have been thinking about lately as I color comics for some other creators. Before that, however, I needed to find a comic ...
Panel By Panel: Them There Hills and Value Contrast
hpkomic at 8:43AM, Sept. 23, 2022Recollecting X-Men Trading Cards from the Early Nineties
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 1, 2022
Photo: X-Men Series II Trading Card Collection (1993)
An unopened, cellophane wrapped pack of trading cards is a sleeve of anticipation. The probability of finding a hologram or a rare character card is reason enough to get excited.
Around the time the Uncanny X-Men cartoon gained popularity in nineteen-ninety three ...
Mind Tricks 2 - The Phantom Life
Banes at 12:00AM, June 9, 2022
On the last “Mind Tricks” discussion, we talked about false memories, where a characters' true nature is hidden from them because of memory loss or artificial memories.
The Phantom Life is similar, certainly in the two examples that I thought of initially…but the stories play out
in a different ...
Fantastic Bestiary 9: The Wookie
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, June 5, 2022
In this newspost I thought I’d start breaking away from myth a little bit. So far I’ve brought up species and entities from myth and legend, but this is not a series of articles that is just about mythical fiction, but also popular fiction. So! Wookies! Absolutely iconic ...
The Problem With Magic Worlds
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 23, 2022
Our world seems drab, grey, mundane. But some escape it through a magic portal that transports them into a colorful, beautiful, adventurous magic world.
A world that is secret, known only to the select few as everyone else lives on unaware in the real world. And yet, the secret magic ...