It’s time for another Character Deep Dive, this within the amazing political war thriller The Second Crimean War by the awesome and proliferate The Doodler!

The Second Crimean War is an alternate history webcomic, of a different 1995 where, after the collapse of the USSR, the emerging, independent Ukraine ...

Greetings! I hope you've all had an enjoyable holiday season so far, no matter what you're celebrating and regardless of actual ‘holidays’ are part of it for you.

The end of the year is still about a week away, but this will be my last regular Newspost of ...

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Happy Christmas eve! In this penultimate Quackcast of the year we decided to have a free day and just chat about any subject that interested us at the time. Next week will be our final cast of ...

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This Quackcast was inspired by world renowned idiot Robert F Kennedy Jnr. We decided to talk about writing dumb characters. I keep calling him John F Kennedy Jnr because I am also an idiot. Some context: he ...

Photo: “1600”. Used Books created by Usedbooks. (December 2024)

Usedbooks writes:

“Hi,

I have a milestone announcement for the newspost. Used Books has reached 1600 pages.

(From the author’s notes)

‘1600’

Is 1600 a milestone? Tbh, every page feels like a mile at this point. Heh. Anyway, I used ...

In our Quackcast about Non-Linear storytelling this week, I had a tangent of a thought about the value of difficult or challenging fiction as opposed to stories that are easier to understand.

An unusual structure to a story can be challenging to understand, but if it's done well, the ...

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Non-linear stories are a different way of telling a tale. There are many famous examples (Pulp fiction, Mulholland Drive etc), where the sequence of events isn't in strict chronological order. This style has gained a false ...

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Is it important to Identify with characters? This question occurred to me as I was watching a rather banal sitcom, Rules of Engagement. I love two of the stars, David Spade and Patrick Warburton, but it's ...

Photo: “Usedbook’s Gift Art for Davidxolukoga”. Secret Santa 2023 Gift Art Exchange. (December 2023)


There are less than four weeks until the time of gift-giving. The time to begin planning for this year’s Secret Santa Gift Art Exchange has arrived.

What is the Drunk Duck Secret Santa?

Secret ...

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This is the third in our weapons trilogy and it's about what happens AFTER the ultimate weapons have done their work: Apocalypse! The end of all things… This term comes from the bible, with the Book ...