Photo: “End of Summer 2024”. Photograph taken by kawaiidaigakusei. (September 2024)

Ten years before Miyazaki’s latest animated film, The Boy and the Heron (2023), was released last year, The Wind Rises (2013/2014) was announced to be Miyazaki’s final film.

In a Drunk Duck forum post dated February ...

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Cross cultural influence is a marvellous thing and very enriching to creativity! It's lovely when you can see multiple cultural influences in things, whether comics, movies, art, fashion, music or anything else. It's inspiring and ...

Photo: “Thank You”. Submitted by Xade. (August 2024)





Xade, creator of Growlution and Insanity of Xade, has an announcement:

“Monday is here*, and I’m thrilled to say we finally have the rent money. It’s now in the apartment manager’s hands, and I can’t help but reflect ...

I just read a story about a man who left home in 1991, going missing.

About thirty years later, a stranger drove up to the home and dropped the man off. He was back, and his relatives were obviously shocked. The guy was now in his 90's, and wearing ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. Last time, I asked about how you all scripted your comics and got a lot of interesting responses I wanted to run through here. So let’s run through all of them.

First ...

Finally! It's time for yet another Creator Interview, and as usual, I have the pleasure of interviewing one more fantastic DDer! This time it's Paul Eberhadt, a wonderful artist and comic creator with a unique style I could discern among many!

Paul already has a bio on his ...

I was going to do a Character Deep Dive yesterday, for you to read today. However it wasn't meant to be, because while I was making my analysis, my house alarm went off because some decided to try to break in. So enthusiastically that my shutters were shattered and ...

One story structure, that ozoneocean and I talked about many years ago on the Quackcast, was the Lone Protagonist as drifter.

In Pulp Fiction, Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) says talks about leaving the life of crime to walk the Earth. “Like Kane in Kung Fu. Help people, get in adventures ...

There are always lots of issues with trying to work out what will happen in the future based on current events and current tech, this is why very little SciFi is predictive of the future, unless it's about social trends or politics and even then it's a lucky ...

Damaged Heroes


A well written, standard Protagonist will generally have some flaws, starting out as an underdog of some kind, with lessons to learn and improvements to make over the course of the story.

Granted, some heroes are, well, just heroes, who are pretty much who they need to be ...