Niccea has unveiled the 2017 DD Awards and needs your help.
Topics for discussion:
How do we want to handle “For Your Consideration” submissions.
Do any categories need to change?
Also, I would like to have a strong partner to help me out for these awards. There might be long ...

Quackcast 316 - The Quirkcast!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 28, 2017 LISTEN!
For this Quackcast we decided to chat about quirks- the things that stand out about a character, help you remember them, get interested in them, traits that pick them out as individuals and can ALSO be used to point at deeper character traits! These are so useful in so ...
The Differences Between a Formal, Social, and Psychoanalytic Reading of Art
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 27, 2017
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith beheading Holofernes, 1611-12, oil on canvas, (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples)
There are several different ways to read a painting. The perspective of the reader adds a new insight to the history behind the art. For the purpose of this article, I have selected Judith beheading Holofernes ...
Quackcast 315 - Creepy Pasta
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 21, 2017 LISTEN!
This week we decided to all read out Creepypastas, just because! I's a popular thing on the net and people like that sort of thing… Well Banes and Pit do anyway. So what ARE Creepypastas? Well they're not the rotten spaghetti that had Banes blasting from both ...
Jonathin Quackup Kickstarter: Issue #2 - Cat Warriors Capture Our Hero!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 20, 2017
QUACKUP #2 is now available on Kickstarter!
Thank you everyone for making QUACKUP #1 a success with over 4 thousand copies released!
We are offering more personalized edition covers! Plus ad space, alternate covers, the Quackup game app, and more!
Overview
The Jonathin Quackup series takes place in a dying ...
Some More Stuff on Dialogue
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 18, 2017
So last week I talked about the basic principles of dialogue, so the recipe to the cake itself. But now I’d also like to talk about that cake’s icing and trimmings- what will make the dialogue we’re writing be fun and distinct and pop in our comic ...
Quackcast 314 - The failure of heroes
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 14, 2017 LISTEN!
When heroes fail… Hey, why would you ever want a hero to fail? Well there are a lot of reasons and listening to this Quackcast will tell you why, but the quick version is that you don't want your hero to be a perfect Mary-Sue sort of character ...