FEATURED COMIC --> Alpacomics

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 18, 2023



A herd of deeply philosophical and imaginative pet alpacas with very different personalities live on a farm. Hana the alpaca (aka “The Roomba Ranger”) is easy-going and creative, yet still aware of the realities of the farm like wool shearing season. The other alpacas have varying degrees of awareness that ...

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Panel By Panel: 'The Sparks TAB' and The Visual Reference

hpkomic at 2:26PM, Oct. 6, 2023



Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.

So, as I was flipping through comics here on the Duck as inspiration for a post, I stumbled onto a page from a particular comic with two panels that pulled a familiar reference ...



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FEATURED COMIC --> Thirley Peak

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 4, 2023



The year is 2022, Theodore Jake Carlsen is riding a school bus up a steep hill while talking to a friend, Eugene, about poetry written during the Great War. *Screech*. Theodore’s life is about to be turned upside down in a matter of seconds by a treacherous disaster. *Vroom ...

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Just Looking at the Pictures

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 2, 2023


Photo: “A Mutant Trying to Read”. The Uncanny X-Men by Marvel Comics. Animal Farm by George Orwell. Photographed by kawaiidaigakusei. (October 2023)

Rogue: I figured you read this one already. But the cover looked pretty good.

Beast: Thomas Wolfe. An old favorite. I thank you.

Gambit: Beastie is easy to ...






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Religion (part 2)

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 30, 2023



Last time I started talking about religion as a great umbrella term for a lot of facets of worldbuilding you can take into consideration when constructing the world of your story, be it webcomic, novel, series, or anything else.

This type of worldbuilding is especially prevalent in fantasy worlds, but ...



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October Arrives

Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 28, 2023



I've always loved Autumn - and we're in it now, in my part of the world. To be honest, it's just beginning to come in, so I'm anticipating the leaves turning into those beautiful oranges and yellows (and all the variations therin), before they begin piling up ...

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Quackcast 654 - tropes vs character growth

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 26, 2023

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Today we're chatting about characters who're mainly based on tropes VS those that grow. You see this difference quite clearly in a lot of British comedy VS American comedy where characters are set up in ...


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Apricots, Hibiscus, and Amaryllis

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 25, 2023


Photo: “Complimentary Paint Chips Extracted from the Hardware Store”. Photographed by kawaiidaigakusei. (September 2023)

The fastest and easiest way to uplift a lackluster mood is to seek out the paint aisle at a local home improvement store; scan through and collect all the paint chips that appear “calming”, “vibrant”, or ...


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Panel By Panel: 'Dude in Distress' and Depth of Field

hpkomic at 2:57PM, Sept. 22, 2023



Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. One fun thing about doing comics digitally is that it opens up all sorts of helpful tools you may not have in traditional artwork. For example, blurring things to imply a depth of ...

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Quackcast 653 - Star Treken

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 19, 2023

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Today we're talking about STAR TREK! Star Trek is a pretty influential piece of pop-culture. Most interesting to me is that it's a future that is NOT a dystopia. It's a large scale vision ...


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