How to Research for Your Comic

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 24, 2017



Every comic needs to be researched. Except maybe an autobiographical one, since it’s most likely you already have a thorough knowledge of what is going on in your life.

Or maybe you don’t, and this is your Cognitive Therapy homework.

In any case, a few exceptions aside, just ...





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What does it take to get your comic featured?

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 23, 2017
tags: a, feature, get, how, to



So you'd like to have your comic featured on the front page of the site here?
What does it take? Interesting question… Let me answer that for you. :)
The criteria is pretty straight forward:

1. The comic needs to have at least 15 pages.
The reason for this is ...






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Gimme Five

Banes at 12:00AM, June 22, 2017

Gimme Five - Senses in comics

Comics are a one-sense medium. Or web comics are, at least. I suppose print comics have a physical touch sensation, as my ink-stained and paper-cutted fingers can attest.

But I'm talking about In-Story sensation. Sight is the only sense automatically being engaged in a ...



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The KAMics Reaches the 1,700 Page Milestone!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 19, 2017



http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/

Golly gee willikers! Can you believe that The KAMics has reached an outstanding level of pages that it deserves recognition?

That is correct, on Friday, June 16th, the KAMics reached its 1,700 page milestone and we are very impressed here on the site. Surely ...





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The Character Archetypes (Jungian Archetypes Part 5)

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 17, 2017



So we come to the end of this long litany of presentations on Jung’s assorted archetypes that craftsmen of the narrative arts have used since time immemorial to weave their yarns.

And what better way to end with the crowning jewel in every story, from books to movies to ...



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READ MY COMIC DAMN IT! (A "how to" guide)

HyenaHell at 12:00AM, June 16, 2017



Well hell, long time no see huh? I'd like to say I'm back from my, er, break all rejuvenated and refreshed and what have ya but honestly it's damn near midnight and I'm running on three hours of sleep that I managed to eek out on ...

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Crossing Over

Banes at 12:00AM, June 15, 2017
tags: comic, crossovers

Cinematic Universes are the big thing these days. Or they're trying to be.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is expanding to further-flung corners all the time: I couldn't believe some of the “cosmic” characters who appeared in the Guardians of the Galaxy volume 2. Characters I would have thought ...

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Is this the real life, is this just fantasy, caught in a landslide...

Genejoke at 12:00AM, June 10, 2017

Guest Saturday news post.



Hello Drunkduckers, Genejoke here with a guest news post for you. Well let me be honest, there won't be much news. Guest article would be more accurate.

Many of us regulars here on the duck are ageing a bit, we're no longer young whipper ...





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Superheroes & The Duck!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 9, 2017

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Guest newspost by Nepath

Firstly, let me get the self-promotion out of the way. Sunday just gone I started a third story arc for my comic Energize (www.theduckwebcomics.com/energize), which originally launched on this site, 10 years ago that day. It's called Energize and if you like ...


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Catharsis

Banes at 12:00AM, June 8, 2017
tags: banes, thursday



CATHARSIS
from the Best of Banes Collection


A writing instructor once gave me brief advice on how to write a story, structurally speaking. It was 1/4 Act One setup, 1/2 Act Two complications and rising stakes (I think), and about 1/4 An Act Three “cathartic ending”.

I ...







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