A funeral is a sad, grim occasion for most people. For Hel it's something else: work… hard work. She's there to correct a wrong, to send an unearthly creature back to where it belongs. She's a woman with a thousand years of history behind her. She has ...

Keeping on time
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, July 10, 2020
Establishing and maintaining a consistent update schedule is not just important, it also has many benefits. It’s a big part of being a content creator. But what makes it so beneficial? Here are a few reasons why a well paced schedule can help you as a comic creator.
It ...
DD Red Carpet 2020
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 27, 2020
The DD Awards are here again, thanks to the wonderful Niccea!
And that means that together with this year's DD Awards, we also are having the DD Red Carpet event again!
The DD Awards are more or less the equivalent of Oscar Night for Drunk Duck, and so we ...
What to do when you think you've outgrown your comic
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, June 19, 2020
As you grow and develop as a comic creator, you might find stories you had invested time into beginning to lose their appeal. You might be thinking that having outgrown your story. However, it might be a case of having written yourself into a corner or maybe you might need ...
Preventing burnout
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, June 12, 2020
I took this past week off, in part to celebrate reaching the goal age of 30, but mostly to take some time to address an encroaching feeling, burnout. Creativity is a muscle, and like any muscle in your body, if overused it can become strained or even tear. I am ...
QUACKCAST 481 - Fun with history?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 2, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we're chatting about using historical stuff in your story and knowing how to use it right! Sometimes it's good to change stuff and sometimes ...
Revisionist Historical Fiction
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 30, 2020
So over here on Greek TV, there's this very popular drama series that happens to be set in a Greek mainland village in the 1950s, and sells itself as ‘authentically representing an era’. It started off very promising, as a crime drama + family drama kind of story where three ...
All is Lost
Banes at 12:00AM, April 30, 2020
I've talked many times about story structure. Even with a structural approach, there are a lot of questions to be answered, struggles to be had, and hard thinking to be done to make a story work.
One big moment that I like thinking about early in the writing is ...
Nothing Wasted, Something Gained
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 18, 2020
As the Orthodox Easter approaches, I set out to make the traditional sweet bread. It's a tricky affair, because the recipes are often unreliable, or something might happen which you realise too late, and the dough won't rise, or won't pull apart as it should. I ended ...
Maintaining an update schedule
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, April 17, 2020
There are generally two kinds of webcomic artists. Those that update irregularly and those that operate like clockwork. Maintaining an update schedule has many benefits both for you and your readers. Here are some of the positive reasons for putting in place a realistic update schedule.
Readers like reliability
Having ...