I recently watched a concert of Ed Sheeran singing “Thinking Out Loud” when the camera panned to the person playing the piano and it turned out to be Chris Martin from Coldplay and the song finished with a duet. I sat there thinking, “Wow, that really worked.” Collaborating with another ...

You know that idea about a frog in a pot of water getting cooked before realising that the water had been gradually increasing in temperature until it was rapidly boiling? Well last week, I was the frog and my room was that pot of water.

September has been the hottest ...

Summary:
What would you do if you were plucked from your life by mysterious aliens, stored by them in zero G till you were needed, and then had your face peeled back, bones inserted, your hand skin pulled off, your finger bones stitched together, your skin turned blue, then you ...

Steel and Manitou tells a tale of the legendary Gtchi Manitou, a Great Spirit, embodied by a white horse with a feather in its mane. The stories are inspired by the Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree) Aboriginal legends from Saskatchewan, Canada. This tale begins when a young orphaned girl, Kassidy Kerr, finds ...

Summary:
In the cold whiteness of Northern Alberta in the great winter nation of Canada there's a little girl who has a bad dream about a big blue man pierced with harpoons… in her town there's skulduggery, murder, blood on the snow. This is a fascinating cinematic comic ...

This is a dark story about the secret life of Doctor Michael Jones. Real dark. It explores the twisted mind of a hospital worker turned serial killer and his unorthodox therapist who shows little concern after hearing Jones' incriminating confession. Wicked Games examines the fine line between euthanasia in hospitals ...

Around Spring of last year, in an attempt to keep my pen moving, I signed up for a life drawing class. It was the first time since high school art class that I was going to draw human models in real life. Over the last decade, most of the human ...

The tradition of creating handmade gifts began sometime in elementary school when it was not only appropriate, but expected, to give our parents original creations. Eventually, a handmade knick-knack has a difficult time competing with the latest smart phone or drawing tablet and is pushed aside to make room for ...

Abt_Nihil was the winner of my Easter contest, so here is his well-earned plug for Heroes Alliance!

From Abt_Nihil:
"Heroes Alliance, dd's long-running superhero crossover community project, started its 9th chapter yesterday! In this new chapter, the Alliance has to stop a Zombie outbreak in Darwin, Australia, and meets ...

Erin Go Bragh!

Today is St. Patrick's Day which means the color green is everywhere. This day evokes a taste for corned beef and cabbage served with a side of boiled potatoes and carrots. I want to point out that even though the name “Drunk Duck” may be associated ...