Gonna take another pause from the fantastic bestiary on this Sunday’s article and instead talk about wonder in fiction. First off, what is wonder? If you put the word wonder into google translate it is described as ”a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beutiful, remarkable or ...
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Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, June 19, 2022Panel by Panel: Charby the Vampirate and the Three-Beat Sequence
hpkomic at 12:24PM, June 17, 2022
Hello and welcome to Panel by Panel, an analysis of panels from comics right here on The Duck and exploring what they do, how they work, and what we can learn from them.
We're mixing things up a bit this week by looking at three panels. We're talking ...
Fantastic Bestiary 10: The Scandinavian Troll
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, June 12, 2022
So! Back to mythology. And we are going back to my place again, good ol’ Scandinavia. In the summertime no less when the color green is everywhere, the fields are high and trolls come sneaking down from their magically hidden caves and mountain kingdoms. To me the Scandinavian depiction of ...
Mind Tricks 2 - The Phantom Life
Banes at 12:00AM, June 9, 2022
On the last “Mind Tricks” discussion, we talked about false memories, where a characters' true nature is hidden from them because of memory loss or artificial memories.
The Phantom Life is similar, certainly in the two examples that I thought of initially…but the stories play out
in a different ...
Fantastic Bestiary 9: The Wookie
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, June 5, 2022
In this newspost I thought I’d start breaking away from myth a little bit. So far I’ve brought up species and entities from myth and legend, but this is not a series of articles that is just about mythical fiction, but also popular fiction. So! Wookies! Absolutely iconic ...
QUACKCAST 585 - Adaptation
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 31, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Adaptations of one thing into another is an interesting process. What's lost, what's gained, what modifications do you have to do to make it happen ...
QUACKCAST 584 - Drawing gender
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 24, 2022 LISTEN on our player
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We start off with the idea of talking about art techniques, tips and tricks we've mastered and could help people with but the cast turned into a ...
Panel by Panel: 'Ghastley Heights' and Framing
hpkomic at 12:00AM, May 20, 2022
Hello and welcome to Panel by Panel, an analysis of panels from comics right here on The Duck and exploring what they do, how they work, and what we can learn from them.
This week's panel comes from the Ghastley Heights strip “Pamphlets.” This comic is by IronScarf. Let ...