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Is your work consistent? It's hard to maintain consistency but it does pay off: consistency in art work, style, character, writing, humour, updates and every other factor. To aid consistency in commercial works they come up ...

Photo: “Abbeycourt Manor, Spring 2025, Venue TBD”. Albino Squirrel Productions Flier by ShadowGamer. (June 2024)


ShadowGamer of Powerup Comics, Powerup Adventure, If Bernie Won, Super Brigade, Gamer Dilbert, and Abbeycourt Manor has MEGA NEWS that is so Out Of This World that it is In This Actual World.

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Finally! It's time for yet another Creator Interview, and as usual, I have the pleasure of interviewing one more fantastic DDer! This time it's Paul Eberhadt, a wonderful artist and comic creator with a unique style I could discern among many!

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Better Call Saul is the prequel series to Breaking Bad. Both shows are incredible, and probably my two favorite shows. The characters in these shows, especially Better Call Saul, have great nuance to them, and most of them have multiple “wants” or “needs” that are in opposition to each other ...

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Betrayal is not a fave theme of mine in any media. I really dislike it, but it's so popular! We've talked about this one before but no one really remembers Quackcast 427 so we're ...

Photo: “Animation Practice”. Kingdom of Cats by Rachel87. (2024)

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Rachel87 writes:

“Comic strip number 100!

Kingdom of Cats just put up it's 100th comic strip! Not the 100th update but the 100th comic strip :D I'm very excited :) Yay!

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It’s Sunday again and I once again feel like talking about writing, particularly the art of naming things and the wordplay that may be used to do so. Me, I’m an obsessive player of words. When I name a certain element or group or a single ...

I was going to do a Character Deep Dive yesterday, for you to read today. However it wasn't meant to be, because while I was making my analysis, my house alarm went off because some decided to try to break in. So enthusiastically that my shutters were shattered and ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. As we established last time, this week I wanted to mix things up yet again by asking for examples of how you script your comics: namely panel directions.

If you can share your ...

Characters want something - this is a basic building block of storytelling. Identifying what a main character wants is a big step in defining that character. Figure out how they go about trying to get it - that's the beginning of a story. Figure out what's stopping them from getting ...