The debate on what constitutes a “strong female character”, whether having “strong female leads” or “feminism” is tanking “woke” films these past few years, is ongoing. There's accusations of toxicity on both sides. Misogyny, misandry, wokeness and brokeness, all of these terms and hot takes are fired and take ...

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This week's cast was an experiment and if it works out we'll do more! We came up with the idea for discussing a comic live on air, the hard part was choosing it, for that ...

Photo: “Call for Artists (for the DD Awards)”. Judges and presenters needed. (August 2023)

2023 Drunk Duck Awards 2.0

There is a need for ten presenters for this year's awards. Five of the ten presentations can be started as soon as possible, the other five are still being ...

Sam Sanders, known as Virtus when dressed in an interestingly masked costume, protects the city of Sala, Sweden. In a time where art education funding has taken a nosedive, a group of culture warriors set out on a mission—all in the name of culture. Virtus has special abilities, such ...

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We're having a chat about characters that differ from the source material and turn out crap because of it. Characters where the people adapting them didn't care, understand, or even take time to read the ...

Photo: “Second Round Fire Raven v. Nariko page 187”. Story and art by bravo1102. (18 July 2023)

We have intercepted an interstellar transmission from Bravo1102 with this exciting message:

”Hey,

If you could see fit to put into the announcements that next Friday Interstellar_Battle_Girls will reach 200 pages. Took awhile ...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Drawing my own pics for these now. It feels better that way^^

Sever the frenzy of easy appliance
Who are the sinners of the craft to the abusers of the lever
Never assembly a line of compliance
Who are the living of the reap to the dead ...

I think many of us who make comics or write stories or are interested in writing can agree that mistake number one in writing is to front-load a story with a long-winded backstory. We've talked about it here on the site plenty of times.

There is an opposite mistake ...

There are little rat-like children with superpowers running around the cold winter streets of future Phoenix Arizona. They're part of a despised underclass, akin to the homeless and vagabonds who they sypathise with and help. Many years ago a comet of extra-solar origin was destroyed on a collision coarse ...

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Drawing fight scenes is damn hard! One of the best ways to deal with this is to use references, but that's hard too because it's a pain to find the ones you need! So today ...