Weirdos, Loners, and Mutants: How the Uncanny X-Men Taught Me How to Embrace the Outsider

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 6, 2016


-Art by Trico

Like any other backpack-toting American kid in the nineteen-nineties, the one thing I looked forward to each week (well, after TGIF) was Saturday morning cartoons. My absolute favorite show was X-Men The Animated Series which led to frequent trips to old, dusty comic shops to buy Series ...


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A Roundup of Recent Fixes!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 3, 2016



We've been implementing various bug fixes and improvements over the last little while. For those of you who don't always check the forums or the Facebook group, here's a little roundup of what we've done so far.

The Top Ten: The top ten is now based ...



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Buying In

Banes at 12:00AM, June 2, 2016


I'm all in!
Poker reference.


We've all read comics that grab us and get us invested completely in what's going on. And we've read others that don't do it for us. Most are probably somewhere in between, with hits and misses. Such is life.

And ...




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Quackcast 273 - Promoting Side Characters

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 31, 2016

LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean

After last week's massive DD meetup (Next one is on the 18th, BE THERE!), we're back to the core group… me and my side characters, hahaha! Banes, Pitface, and Tantz Aerine join me to discuss the topic of promoting from within the ranks. I ...


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2016 DRUNK DUCK AWARDS: FYC Comic Jam and Commercials

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 30, 2016
tags: 2016, Awards, Drunk, Duck



The Drunk Duck Awards FYC Comic Jam has started and going strong. There is still one last page that needs to be claimed. Also, anyone that wants to can send in “Commercial Pages” that break away from the plot. We have some people that are submitting an FYC page without ...

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Casual Comicking

HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 27, 2016



For the last few years I’ve been focusing almost exclusively on university. I’ve been working on some stuff off and on (see my lonely little title page here), but I haven’t finished an entire issue of a comic since the year I graduated high school. Basically, you ...

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Side Characters

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 26, 2016


*Colin and Betty from Pinky TA

When you write a big long story that goes over many chapters and arcs, things tend to evolve, grow and expand quite a bit outside of what you originally envisaged. What I'm talking about here are side characters- These are people that may ...


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When the Best-Laid Plans Go Awry

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 23, 2016


-conceptual bridge design by kawaiidaigakusei

"Tell me why all the best laid plans fall apart in your hands. And my good intentions never end, the way I meant.“ -James Blunt ”Best Laid Plans“

My desktop computer has a lot of saved files that have accumulated over the years. Every once ...




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We Are The Duck Comic Jam, and Top Ten News!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 20, 2016



Irrevenant is looking for volunteers for the next Comic Jam for We Are The Duck!

From irrevenant:
“A comic jam is a process where artists collaborate on creating a single comic. There is no script, and the content of the comics is improvised based solely on what happened in the ...




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Reflection Characters

Banes at 12:00AM, May 19, 2016



Reflection Characters

When I was doing a little reading on the “Mentor” character type, I learned about something called “Reflection Characters”. It was an eye opener; I'd never heard of this before, though I could instantly see how it made sense in storytelling, and dozens of examples came to ...



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