When You Can’t Stop Laughing

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 7, 2022


Photo: “One of these days, you’re gonna die laughing.” Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

The 1988 mixed animation-live action film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, set in 1940s Toon Town, had a whimsical villain called Judge Doom with a team of henchmen in tow known as the Toon Patrol. The ...


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Writing in an existing Fictional Universe

Banes at 12:00AM, March 3, 2022



I asked Genejoke if he would answer a few questions about his comic Albion, which
takes place in the Universe Star Trek.

You can read Albion here:

https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Albion/



And you can read the interview right here!

So, why did you choose to do a comic set ...












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How Many Moves Ahead Should One See?

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 28, 2022


Photo: “Rhino and Zebra Playing Chess”. Illustration from The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base. (1988)

My uncle could see nine moves ahead in chess. Nine moves. I could never understand how one could predict the future moves of an opponent by sheer chance. A predictable opponent makes predictable moves, yet ...


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Francis Picabia and the Art of the Signature

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 21, 2022


Photo: “Untitled Signature” by Francis Picabia

The year was 1915, when a thirty-six-year-old Francis Picabia showed up to the New York Dada scene. His alibi to leave Europe was a story about his travels to Cuba in order to purchase molasses, a story he cleverly forgot once he arrived in ...


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Happy Valentine’s Day, Ducks.

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 14, 2022


Photo: Venus and Adonis by Peter Paul Rubens

There are few days more appropriate than today to write about Love as a topic. Aphrodite herself, the goddess of love, fell in love with the beautiful Adonis, before his ill-fated day when he encountered the wild boars.

Love comes in many ...




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Absorbing Another Artist’s Art Style

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 7, 2022



A teacher once told me a story about an in-law who worked in the animation studio for a very popular children’s cartoon. The studio used hand-drawn animation for the first season and transitioned to more computer animation for season two and season three. The job entailed drawing the main ...

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Books of Babel

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 31, 2022


Photo: A collection of “Le Petit Prince” books in various translations.

“Le Petit Prince” (French), “The Little Prince” (English), “Regulus” (Latin), “O Pequeno Principe” (Portuguese), and “El Principito” (Spanish) are a few of the titles of Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s book that has been translated over three hundred and one ...


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The Exploitation of Art(ists)

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 29, 2022



Many things in this world are overrated, and even more are underrated. The problem is that often the things that are underrated are the ones that are vital for survival or quality of living while the ones that are overrated are superficial or even problematic for the same things (i ...

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Growing Up with Louie (1953-2022)

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 24, 2022


Photo: Young Louie Anderson in “Life with Louie” TV Series. (1994-1998)

In another round of shocking events, the comedy world lost another great last Friday, with comic Louie Anderson.

As part of the target demographic for Saturday morning cartoons in the mid-nineties, my introduction to Louie’s humor was through ...




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Friday Fashion Spotlight 10: Eradin

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 21, 2022



Welcome to…
The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 10.


This fella looks a bit different. That's because he's an alien called a “Cee”. He lives in a forest with a group of others of his kind… He's a bit of an authority figure in his community, known as ...






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