Comics are a great medium for action-heavy stories, but showing inner conflict without massive walls of text can be difficult. The other day I picked up a very disappointing graphic novel version of “Frankenstein” - it read like an illustrated summary of the book, not reflecting any of the angst and ...

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For this DD webcomics podcast, Quackcast 178, we talk about THEMES. And no, we're not talking about those fine musical tracks that Gunwallace has been making for our comics. Theme is what's happening below the surface plot of a story. Plot is the ...

Summary:
A destitute young girl is forced to work as a lowly drudge underneath a castle. The people of the castle are hard taskmasters. There she suffers indignities and exhaustion, until something finally breaks… and she resolves to set out on her own.
This is a dramatic fantasy adventure. The ...

I used to take the side of the cheerful, positive, and heroic protagonist in films and comics when I was much younger. As I got older, I wised up to the idea that being a protagonist is relative to biases of the storyteller. Now I rewatch those same films with ...

Dori is down on her luck and having a hard time coping with the death of her parents while being bound to a wheelchair. After a move to her aunt and uncle's country farm house in the middle of nowhere, she spends many days sitting near the roadside to ...

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

Comics are the perfect medium for telling love stories because we have access to every part of a character’s life: their innermost thoughts, their conversations, their sly glances at a love interest…
After Oz and Banes did their great 2-part quackcast discussing love in ...

Summary:
In 18th century France there are worrying rumours in the air. Disturbing tales are being spread of needless arrests and terrible abuses deep bellow the streets… A young aristocratic woman and her lover work hard to get the word out and inform people as much as they can, but ...

THE RETURN OF DRUNKDUCK.COM
As of last weekend, The Duck Webcomics has finally reacquired the URL for DrunkDuck.com. What this means is that any broken links leading to DrunkDuck.com will automatically redirect to TheDuckWebcomics.com.

This is beneficial for any users that have been unaware the site ...

Summary:
Your secrets are not safe. DoorMan is Janus de Nile, an enigmatic time-traveller hunting psychic parasites called the Arcanum, who feed on the guilt, remorse, and regret of those who hold secrets from their past. Sandman meets Doctor Who in this horror / sci-fi / psychological thriller.
The art is solidly ...

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 ...