Hiatuses are a necessary evil in the webcomics world, it seems. Most webcomic artists can’t devote all their attention to their comic, and will at some point find that life – school, work, or family – gets in the way of regular updates.

In terms of maintaining readership, it’s best ...

Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys

That happens to be a line from one of my favourite albums, a combination CD/graphic novel from an obscure now-defunct South African hip hop group.

I think it’s pretty easy to understand how a South African group would come to that conclusion. When I ...

There is a brand new piece of off-white coloured paper on the desk. The click of a GraphiGear mechanical pencil. The lead hitting the table. Tap. Tap. Tap. The need to draw is there, but the inspiration behind it makes it very difficult to create an image out of thin ...

-Art by Gunwallace

There was once an intervention for work-appropriate humour at one of my former jobs where we were asked the question: "A joke told in the workplace can be off-colour or sexually offensive as long as I know that I am only kidding.“ The moderator had the room ...

2014 DRUNK DUCK AWARDS
We had a grand total of two entries submitted for the design the awards trophy contest this year. Whose do you like better? El Cid or Prototype? Vote in the contest thread or by PQing Niccea (if you want your votes to be confidential). And…trophy ...

The Drunk Duck Awards are coming up fast, and we're now looking for submissions for the trophy design!
Last year's designs are featured above, just for inspiration/example.


From Niccea:
"1st place gets to be the award. 2nd place will be the runner up award for the finalist ...

LIVE PHONE-IN QUACKCAST

Ozoneocean and Banes are recording an extra special Quackcast tomorrow! They're going to be taking questions from people over Skype, as well as Twitter and Google+, starting at 11am Eastern Time.
Check out the forum thread for more details: http://theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/176150/


DD ...

In which I sit behind a desk in a shadowy room, objectify my secretary and seek out missing webcomics and their creators.

This time I went searching for the comic Hellfire, suggested by shastab24 and Abt_Nihil
This comic was apparently deleted by its creator MafiaMonkey, aka Tom Rainford, although his ...

In which I put on my Nancy Drew outfit and search out deleted webcomics and their creators!

Locoma (of Anti Featured) recently suggested that I do a newspost about those mysterious webcomics whose archives are deleted and which disappear forever. I couldn't think of very many on my own ...

The ever-evolving, always mysterious, and very inspiring Used Books webcomic turned seven years old yesterday. The early days of the comic were largely influenced by mystery stories including Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie novels, Lupin III, Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed) and Vickie's (the creator) closest friends. What ...