The advent of AI has started to finally come into the field of art and expression. No longer is it there only to help us with the menial tasks, the repetitive stuff, the uninspired stuff so we, humans, can be freed up to engage in the intuitive expression of any ...
The AI Problem
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kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2022
Domenic is a slovenly bachelor from a Sicilian-American household in New Jersey and he still lives under the same roof as his domineering mother and pet pooch, Lily. Down the road, Katherine, reeling from her latest unlucky relationship prospect, rides alongside her “already-in-a-stable-relationship” sister, Ashley. This small-town, unlikely romance story ...
When comics enter development hell
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Dec. 3, 2022
When working on comics, particularly long term, you may encounter a situation where your comic is in…development hell!
Development hell is a form of purgatory for a creative project. We often hear it used in relation to series or movies. The project is bounced from studio to studio, as ...
Panel By Panel:’Fluffy 500’ and Unusual Angles
hpkomic at 2:06PM, Dec. 2, 2022
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. I am working on another comic submission from a couple of posts ago. This week our volunteer is the creator of Fluffy 500, IronHorseComics, who shared some pages. Today I want to look ...
The Right Jazz
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Nov. 27, 2022
Been dragging my feet writing this Sunday article - among many other things - as I’ve been hit by this latest compulsive obsession of mine to keep rearranging my Youtube library to perfectly push out the distracting vestiges of my past internet media consumption, in order to become more focused in ...
Vox Populi, Vox Dei
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 26, 2022
So this line has become famous lately since Elon Musk has been using it to reinstate banned Twitter accounts in the latest episode of the Birdsite Drama.
I'm not going to get into any opinion piece on what I think of this development but if you haven't joined ...
Panel By Panel: Spirit Monk and Crossing Boundaries
hpkomic at 7:18AM, Nov. 4, 2022
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.
Last week I invited creators to send pages and panels they are proud of for me to look at and potentially write about. The response was good, and I am glad to say ...
Meet the Hero in Stasis
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 22, 2022
Tony Stark is glib, arrogant, and a war profiteer. And the perfect Protagonist.
I don't believe stories should be written strictly according to formulas - but writing according to structures that have been established can be helpful to a script when needed.
With that disclaimer out of the way, let ...
Does Mechanization Turn Men into Robots or Robots into Men?
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2022
Photo: “Fille Née Sans Mèr (translation ‘Girl Born without Mother’)”. Francis Picabia. 1917.
“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.” -Herbert George Wells
In one month’s time, I will be attending a lecture detailing the development of ...