One of the world's oldest bit of sequential art (which people like Scott McCloud and Will Eisner tell us are just comics in a proto-form) was in the news recently. The Bayeux tapestry is a 70 metre long, 50cm wide embodied cloth that while not containing the panel divisions ...

It may just be my impression, but usually when a story is set in a dystopian setting, the dystopia is played straight. However, when the characters encounter or start off in a utopian setting, they almost always will end up realizing that the utopia is actually a mirage, and in ...

Super heroes are pretty amazing people with awesome powers and abilities beyond normal humans… but they are still normal humans actually, at least the ones in Olympian Heights. They have normal hopes and dreams, passions, crushes, moments of weakness and hesitation… and yet they try to make the right calls ...

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Welcome to another DD Quackcast! We were going to discuss Ad Hoc rationalisations and also “what happens AFTER you take over the world” but both topics were waaaay too trumpish and we didn't feel ...

As creators of stories, be they novels or graphic novels or comics, we all have heard the adage “write what you know”. It's been drummed into our minds to the point that its cold fingers have our impostor syndrome in a deathgrip every time we venture our to write ...

Comics and their creators have actually been prominent in the news recently.

There was the comic book creator Rebecca Burke who was was detained in ICE detention facilities in the US for a couple of weeks due to some problems with the type of visa she was trying to enter ...

Water Lilly, California, is home to some very strange people, namely a whole bunch of teens with supernatural abilities and some that might technically not be considered as actually being alive. They get into all the normal scrapes and japes teens normally do, plus some extra because of their weird ...

If you are setting a story in the past it can often be hard to get everything from the little things to the big picture right, especially if it's a period you haven't lived through yourself. Even then, your memory can play tricks on you.

It doesn't ...

Ax, single father of two young children, spends his days navigating a space ship to sort through space debris. Janus and Callista, along with their babysitter, Julia, fear Ax’s line of work especially after the loss of their mother. One day, Ax receives a weak S.O.S. signal ...

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Watching, reading, and listening to things a second, third or even a million times can offer you a whole new experience. Why do we pick up the same thing to enjoy again? It could be ...