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For Quackcast 127 we asked the DD community about the traditional print comics that influenced them over the years, from their early days onward. No webcomics! Only the old printed kind in comic books or newspapers, or gum wrappers or… however else people got their comicbook goodness. And ...

The transition to the future won't be as shiny and clean as many sci-fi stories would have you think. It'll be uncomfortable and bolted on, bits and pieces of new slowly edging out the old, to create a strange clashing scenery. Helio the Great is as outdated as ...

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This is another of our technical Quackcasts, this time Banes and I are talking about my own mobile digital art processes. The tools I currently use for that are a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet and Sketchbook pro by Autodesk is the software. It's a bit ...

The DD Awards 2013 is officially underway! It's time to start off the season with the For Your Consideration submissions…. which really work as an awareness/voting tool, by the way!

There's a new twist on the FYCs this year, though. Rather than the awards starting off with ...

Currently you can't upload new comic pages to the site.

From what I've seen in the Admin system it looks like that part of the server is not accessible right now for some reason.
As you'll know from right-clicking on any pic our image servers are hosted ...

Hello people, I'm back from the steamy hot city of Darwin in Australia's far north. I didn't do much drawing while I was away but I'll try to rectify that now I'm back.

So today the big news is provided by El Cid and it ...

With ozoneocean away having fun this week, it falls to Banes and skoolmunkee to pick up the slack! Our chosen topic is “Challenges” - those longer-term thematic projects you see around, meant to get you off your drawing/writing duff and doing stuff that makes you better. They can be fun ...

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This week we interview Leonardo Da Abt Nihil, The Duck's very own renaissance man: Philosopher, scientist, self taught artist and writer, he is a man of many talents and lucky for us he posts the fruits of his labour on our site, many of which have been ...

Hephaestus - the son of Zeus and Hera, the Greek god of smithing and crafting, and a pretty laid-back workman with a few stories to tell. Although the art is pretty rough, the writing is fun. The Greek pantheon has always been full of bizarre stories like a mountaintop soap opera ...

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Continuing our technical Quackcast series, Banes and I talk about vector art illustration program Adobe Illustrator, what it is, what it does, and some of its uses in comic art. It's another one of those big, expensive, industry standard programs with a LOT of power and potential ...