I was tempted to write about something easy and non-controversial this week, but then decided I would just keep being me. At least this post has something to do with comics, and current news. I'm genuinely interested in what people have to say on this topic, as it it ...

Picture credit: Interaction Institute for Social Change | Artist: Angus Maguire

Today (Thursday 6th February) is Waitangi Day in New Zealand, although due to the nature of time zones you will probably be reading this after the day if over for us.

Waitangi is a place in NZ, the name meaning ...

Photo: “-Spring- Ch. 5: Page 66”. Imago Nebraska created by InkyMoondrop. (January 2025)

Inkymoondrop writes:

“Hi! Another Milestone for Imago, Nebraska: Chapter 5 ends on the 3rd of February, with the End Cover going up on the 4th, after which Chapter 6 starts. I call this chapter “zex” because it ...

So I slacked a lot in getting interviews prepared for our awesome webcomic artists here on the Duck, but that is going to be remedied!

I'm trying to find a way to establish regularity for all the features for showcasing DDers and their webcomics that I've been handling ...

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We're talking about how technology and design changes so much over the years and how that can change things with plot in story and it can also help pinpoint the date of something sometimes better than ...

Last Week we looked at the “Break Into 2”, the transition between the beginning of a story: The “Before” picture of the Protagonist and their world, and the “Upside Down World” of Act 2.

So, a little later in your average story will come the “Break Into 3”. This leaves ...

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Main characters with main character syndrome? What is main character syndrome? Well the way we're dealing with it here it's normally a snide criticism you level and someone who seems to think the world revolves ...

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A standard thing in stories is to have multiple plot lines. In short stories or when you're just starting out as a writer you tend to have a single line, the A plot, but as soon ...

Notice of JohnCelestri Being Invited as a Featured Guest at Lexington Comic Con This Year


Photo: “JohnCelestri to be Featured Guest at Lexington Comic and Toy Con This Year”. (January 2025)

John Celestri writes:

“Hi, and Happy New Year to you!



I’ve been invited to the Lexington Comic -

Here ...

As the new dawn goes we sprinkle the seeds of unbound rascality
The calamity of the bygone drive-by solitude
For the youth that sows we sink our deeds in offshore synchronicity
The simplest treaty of the offbeat blastoff attitude
As the new dawn goes. As our yesters close. As first ...