Absolute Boyfriend: Volume 1
So, you’ve got this amazing story idea bouncing around in your head—yay, go you! But now comes the big question: how do you actually start the thing? You want that first page to blow your readers away, right? Let’s talk about one of ...

Starting where the action is
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, April 5, 2025Collective Lies about the Past
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, April 3, 2025
If you are setting a story in the past it can often be hard to get everything from the little things to the big picture right, especially if it's a period you haven't lived through yourself. Even then, your memory can play tricks on you.
It doesn't ...
Quackcast 733 - Watch again: Rediscovering
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 1, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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Watching, reading, and listening to things a second, third or even a million times can offer you a whole new experience. Why do we pick up the same thing to enjoy again? It could be ...
When Life's Too Crazy for Fiction
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 29, 2025
I generally avoid using current events in my articles about webcomics, but this time I can't help it. Signalgate has been living rent free in my mind ever since the editor in chief of the Atlantic broke the story.
There are many reasons for that, most of them not ...
Events, Ceremonies, and Gatherings
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, March 27, 2025
No matter what the characters in your story might be doing–fighting crime, resisting alien invasion, surviving in a harsh radioactive wasteland, or just working in an office–sometimes it's fun to remove them from their ‘regular’ activities and place them somewhere different and out of their social comfort ...
Dungeons & Dragons as therapy
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, March 20, 2025
There was a recent article in the Guardian about how playing Dungeons and Dragons had helped siblings bond and cope with the death of their father. It got me thinking about the role that role-playing has played (now there's a phrase) in my own life.
For me role-playing began ...
Resentment
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 15, 2025
In designing a good villain character there's a wide range of paths one can follow. From the grandiose villains that want to take over the world and live in volcano islands, waiting for the hero to fall into their elaborate death trap to humanized villains with complex backstories that ...
Continuity Falls
Banes at 12:00AM, March 14, 2025
Not sure how many of us have thought about marrying a dessert cake…
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Quackcast 730 - Lighting by The Doodler
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 11, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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-Art by The Doodler-
Today we have on a super special guest, The Doodler! This is another on our technical series about art making and this time we're talking about lighting. Tantz suggested we ...
Brace Yourself for the Imago, Nebraska: Chapter Six Finale!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 10, 2025
Photo: “-Spring- Ch.6: Page 66”. Imago, Nebraska story and art created by InkyMoondrop. (March 2025)
InkyMoondrop writes:
“Hi!
I know the 400th page just got announced, but Chapter 6 of Imago, Nebraska is also coming to a sexually heated up finale, with its last pages publishing on the 11th ...