In Ancient Greece, the Muses were goddesses responsible for the formation of knowledge, namely creativity in the arts, literature, and poetry. They are shown depicted on the side of red-figure pottery and high-relief sculptures. Overtime, the muses have been shown more discretely through various forms of media such as a ...
The Importance of a Muse
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2015It needs to be said.
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 12, 2015
Last Thursday, when I read the latest news headline about the attacks on Paris-based satire magazine, Charlie Hebdo, it struck a chord with me. It was not because this was the latest sad event in a sea of heartbreaking news. It struck a chord with me as a person whose ...
'Tis the Season! Art-based charities
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Dec. 19, 2014
Since it’s the holiday season, I thought I would take the opportunity to suggest a way that we can all express some generosity in a way that matters to us. I imagine most of us understand how valuable art can be as a way of escaping a bad situation ...
Gunwallace's Webcomic Theme Songs
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Dec. 5, 2014
Frequent listeners of the Quackcast have likely heard and enjoyed many of Gunwallace's music themes for DD comics. The songs are now available for listening at www.virtuallycomics.com!
If you haven't heard them before, they're well worth a listen - Gunwallace does a really neat job of ...
Searching for Printed Comics
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 24, 2014
Sometime after the events of 9/11, my family signed up for our first printed newspaper subscription to keep up with the world headlines. I was a high school sophomore at the time and in order to take my mind off of the United State's imminent involvement in an ...
Adaptations
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2014
In recent years Hollywood has been desperately mining already popular material in the hopes of producing ready-made hits, so we've had a great bonanza of classic Scifi, fantasy and comic book films blasting onto the silver screen with the likes of The Lord of The Rings, The Chronicles of ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Chevalier eBook and End of a Lite Bites Era
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2014
Good news for you Chevalier fans! A Chevalier Kindle eBook called “Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: The Hither and Yon” is available on amazon and is on sale for $0.99 until Monday! The eBook can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DW3LZY2
Chevalier is one of the ...
A Very Scary FRIDAY NEWSPOST
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Oct. 31, 2014
Happy Halloween, DDers!
For this spOOOOoooOOOky newspost, I've done a roundup of some of the most intriguing comics in the “Horror” genre currently updating on DD!
Preteen Demon
This one is brand new! It’s about a preteen demon with a (predictably) bad attitude. Also, he's really good ...
FEATURED COMIC --> YOUR CHOICE...
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 22, 2014
Summary:
YOUR CHOICE… by VinoMas is an acquisitive pop-culture postmodern webcomic comedy soap opera! Featuring collage art, magazine images, photos of TV screens, and drawing in all sorts of media, this unusual comic follows the melodramatic adventures of an unlikely cast of characters, chief among them is the evil Princess ...