As Easter has come by to melt away the final vestiges of a long, cold winter (at least up in these parts where I live) it feels like a good time to bring up the mythology of witches. Witches have a central role in the Easter that we celebrate here ...

Our world seems drab, grey, mundane. But some escape it through a magic portal that transports them into a colorful, beautiful, adventurous magic world.

A world that is secret, known only to the select few as everyone else lives on unaware in the real world. And yet, the secret magic ...

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Meet Sarah from Simply Sarah. We've got quite a change here! Usually characters are in rather fantastic clothes, even when they're realistic they're still generally aspirational. Sarah actually wears every day realistic clothes! This is quite interesting, it's ...

Last week’s post of the Fantastic Bestiary dealt with housespirits of ancient Rome. In this post we’re going to the far east, following up on another suggestion left by DD member marcorossi. We are going to study the Naga today. The Nagas are a race of serpentine beings ...

Consider this typical fantasy story:

There was once a young handsome man who was good with the sword, excellent with everyone in the village he lived with, and loved and cherished by all. However, he was unhappy because the one girl he fell in love with did not love him ...

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Typhon and Polly are couple who's relationship spans the decades. Typhon, aka Orson Scarpacci, is a man with a great sense of style that changes markedly over the years. Polly, aka Appolonia Whatkins, is a little more conservative in her choices ...

Based off of one of many suggestions left by DD member marcorossi in my last post of the Fantastic Bestiary, this one number 3 is gonna be about an aspect of ancient Roman mythology that you don’t come across all too often in depictions of Ancient Rome. When Roman ...

That's right! Submissions for the DD 2022 Awards' Red Carpet are now open and until August 15!

The Drunk Duck Webcomic Awards is the peak event of DD, hosted by the awesome Niccea, sort of like our own webcomic Oscars. This means that they get to have their own ...

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Alicka and Winston are two characters created by Ukrainian DD comic artist MadMindInk. We should be supporting Ukrainian people at this time, but that's not the only reason Alicka and Winston are featured today! This is a bit of a different ...

In my first post of the Fantastic Bestiary last week I talked about a mythic specie associated with smokeless fire and wishes. In this second post I’m gonna talk about a mysterious, mythic figure associated with water and music. The Nixie is a shapeshifting water spirit that originated from ...