Art For Art's Sake

Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Feb. 13, 2025



I was tempted to write about something easy and non-controversial this week, but then decided I would just keep being me. At least this post has something to do with comics, and current news. I'm genuinely interested in what people have to say on this topic, as it it ...

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Dude in Distress Catapults to 300th Comic Strip Milestone!!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 10, 2025


Photo: “Dude in Distress Strip 300”. Dude in Distress created by EssayBee. (February 2025)

EssayBee writes:

Hi,



Just wanted to announce that last Wednesday (February 5th), Dude in Distress published its 300th story strip.


Dude in Distress Comic Link

https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Dude_in_Distress/



From the “Dude in Distress Strip ...










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What Will Happen Without the Barbarians?

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 8, 2025



There is a poem by one of the most interationally famous Greek poets, Konstantinos Kavafis, called Waiting for the Barbarians. I invite you to give it a read (I've linked its translation) but here's the gist in a nutshell: It's about the Romans waiting for the Barbarians ...

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A Fair Playing Field

Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2025


Picture credit: Interaction Institute for Social Change | Artist: Angus Maguire

Today (Thursday 6th February) is Waitangi Day in New Zealand, although due to the nature of time zones you will probably be reading this after the day if over for us.

Waitangi is a place in NZ, the name meaning ...




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Buffering

Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Feb. 1, 2025



If there is one thing my comic partner and I have realised these past few years is this. The first half of the year is manic for us. Every year we get together to inscribe our goals into stone and within two months life has bulldozed its way through them ...

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How Long is a Piece of String?

Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Jan. 30, 2025



Banes is taking a short break for the Thursday post, so I'll be filling in for a some unspecified number of posts. How many exactly? Well, how long is a piece of string? How long is the coastline of Britain? That was an academic paper ('How Long Is the ...

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FEATURED COMIC --> Rebellion the monster inside us

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 29, 2025



Rush has become a monster, savage, driven by animal instinct for survival, by fear, and dominance. His power is immeasurable, unaccountable, unstoppable! Born a poor slave, the lowest of the low, he faced terrible abuse and trauma beyond imagining. Escaping to the wilderness, left alone with the horrors and monsters ...

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Quackcast 724 - America's Plutocratic classism

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 28, 2025

LISTEN on our player!
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/

Is there a culture of plutocratic classism in the USA? I'm inspired by Trump's America and how people think that people like Elon Musk and him are above the law because they're rich, while ...


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Creator Interviews Are Coming Back!

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 25, 2025



So I slacked a lot in getting interviews prepared for our awesome webcomic artists here on the Duck, but that is going to be remedied!

I'm trying to find a way to establish regularity for all the features for showcasing DDers and their webcomics that I've been handling ...



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This and That (the power of contrast)

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 23, 2025



One of the main drivers of story is the principle of CONTRAST.

A character in a traditional story arc begins one way and ends up in a very different state of being - the underdog to the victorious hero, or the innocent, unaware victim to the final survivor, or the selfish ...



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