I may not be the authority on drawing backgrounds in comics. However, I did spend about two years taking several classes centered around perspective drawing so I do know a little bit more than the average bear. The idea that I have is this, as comic makers, we enjoy telling ...

Drawing One-Point Perspective for Comic Backgrounds
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 1, 2014FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Comic Book Idols
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2014
Yesterday, August 28th, was the anniversary of Jack Kirby's birthday. This has prompted some people to talk about how his work affected them, and made me think a bit about comic book influences and artists we look up to. Although I wasn't actively a huge fan of Kirby ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Lite Bites Calling for Artists
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 22, 2014
Lite Bites needs artists! Lite Bites is a long-running community project where artists and writers come together on short comics.
From Genejoke:
“We have various shot scripts awaiting artists, however, in an attempt to try something a little different I'm looking to get Operation moon 2 drawn but a ...
Quackcast 177 - Charby the Vampirate forever!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 29, 2014 LISTEN!
- Pic by Amelius
Content:
Guess who we had on THIS week? It was Amelius and Evil Emperor Nick! The husband and wife powerhouse behind some very popular comics on DD including Charby The Vampirate and Cwen's Quest. We haven't had them on since Quackcast 10 and 11 ...
Big News for The Duck!
Ozoneocean at 6:00AM, July 23, 2014 DD on facebook
The Duck webcomics community site is finally moving to full community control.
This has been a very long time in coming and has involved a lot of planning and negotiation.
What will this mean? Well, now the community is able to contribute to the betterment of the ...
Quackcast 175 - Endings, part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 15, 2014 LISTEN!
- Pic by Genejoke
Content:
Arrrr, this be the second part of our discussion on writing ENDINGS in stories of all kinds, particularly for webcomics! But we discuss a few movie and TV endings here, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, No Country For Old Men, True Detective, and Dexter ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Representation in comics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 11, 2014
I've written about Archie comics before - it seems every time I go searching for comic news they've got some new gimmick. (See my “jumping the shark” newspost, about Archie being killed off)
This time, they've added yet another character to the Archie comics line up in an ...
The Halloween Cameo Caper Has Returned. Vote for the X-Interactive Comic Story Outcome!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 30, 2014
Hogan of the Halloween Cameo Caper has a message to share!
It’s time for the annual Halloween Cameo Caper, a little community project which has always had a nice DD-participation over the years, coming to a webcomic near you since 2006!
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/176162/
What ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Chevalier available on Kindle!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, June 27, 2014
“Chevalier” creators Darryl Hughes (aka “TheDeeMan”) and Monique MacNaughton (aka “Coydog”) have released the Kindle version of their new book “Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: For Queen and Country” out now on Amazon.
Synopsis:
“Pledging himself before the High Queen of the Far, Far Away to the task of finding ...