Photo: “Celebration of Dada’s 50th Anniversary”. Café Odéon, Zurich. (February 1966)
History was made the moment Hugo Ball stepped out in the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. Dressed in, “a tight-fitting cylindrical pillar of shiny blue cardboard” that “looked like an obelisk”, along with, “a huge cardboard collar, scarlet inside ...
A Post Fit for a Celebration
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 7, 2022Panel By Panel: An Invitation to You
hpkomic at 4:36PM, Oct. 21, 2022
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.
At least, that is what I would normally say before I lead into a post about a page of a panel from a comic on The Duck, but I wanted to try something ...
Using Stories (or Comics) for Politics
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 24, 2022
So, fair warning, I was dead tired last night and forgot to write the blog post. I am slightly drunk now, so I've got no inhibition whatsoever. And I'm going to talk about whatever comes to mind. So, big shocker for anyone who knows me, I want to ...
Building Imagination and Sand Castles
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 5, 2022
Photo: “The Uncanny X-Men Issue #319, Untapped Potential: Bobby Drake and Rogue Talk About Sand Castles“. Marvel Comics. (December 1995)
Saturday morning was spent mall trotting like a typical nineties mall rat. The mall was like a ghost town in the early hours of the day when every storefront was ...
Fantastic Bestiary 12: The Na’vi
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Aug. 28, 2022
Another pop cultural fantastic bestiary Sunday. Anybody remember the movie Avatar? Not the kung-fu fantasy one, the tribal sci-fi one. The James Cameron’s Avatar as it was marketed. I still remember it being the movie that REALLY set the standard for what CGI technology can do cinematically, making this ...
Seriously?
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 11, 2022
When a dramatic actor gets a chance to perform a comedic role, I hear that sometimes they get excited to do something different but their first instinct is to play up the comedy. In an interview with a comedy writer/producer recently, he explained that these actors need the insight ...
Poetry Time 7: Beware the Necromancer
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Aug. 7, 2022
This sunday's EPIC poem is contributed by DD member TheDeeMan. This is “Beware the Necromancer”: Verse four, by Darryl Hughes aka TheDeeMan
On a vacant black morn, was darkness stillborn, a poor and fatherless bastard.
To swirl in the mass, of hell's foul warpath, and evil redeemed for ...
Recollecting X-Men Trading Cards from the Early Nineties
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 1, 2022
Photo: X-Men Series II Trading Card Collection (1993)
An unopened, cellophane wrapped pack of trading cards is a sleeve of anticipation. The probability of finding a hologram or a rare character card is reason enough to get excited.
Around the time the Uncanny X-Men cartoon gained popularity in nineteen-ninety three ...
Unearthing old comics
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, July 23, 2022
I’m back! It’s been a hot minute hasn’t it? I’ll be taking over a blog spot once a month for a while. And for today I have a very interesting topic (hopefully!).
Recently, I have been helping out with the improvements to the site here. As ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Book in Hat
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 13, 2022
A blue hardcover book wearing a red hat with an unquenchable desire for adventure pulls an older, dusty, grumpy and green hardcover book off the shelf as a companion. Imagine a mysterious, magical mustache gifted by a generous French gentleman, saved from a fire. Descend farther down into an abyss ...