We often talk about breaks in comics when referencing hiatuses. Sometimes they are planned, most often they aren’t. However, as I have been catching up on the backlog of webcomics I had saved up, it occurred to me that many of the long running series I enjoyed reading had ...

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 ...

Photo: “Hawk and Flo, Part 1: Ice Cream Truck of Doom, ‘Rebirth Page 19’”. Created by HawkandFloAdventures. (30 July 2023)

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Hawk and Flo Part One: Ice Cream Truck of Doom by HawkandFloAdventures

HawkandFloAdventures writes:

“Hi I'm on track for 700 pages I was wondering if I could get ...

Everdeen (To the left) Can la Can (On the right)

Welcome dear readers to this humble first match report on the world of Pammering Sports called Pammertime. Pammering is traditionally performed in a 15 bout run between six Pammers called a Derby, but we’re going to pick a single ...

So I've finished Without Moonlight (yes I know I've shouted it from the rooftops already) and I'm starting on a new comic. And prepping WM vol. 2.

This time, as a …seasoned webcomic artist…


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Anyway, with the experience I've gathered, I'm actually building a ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I am tackling yet another reader request! This time I received a request for some feedback by InkyMoondrop regarding a particular page of their comic, Blessed Days. That proved interesting, leading ...

The idea of “sin” is a prevalent one in horror stories. In terrifying tales, the monstrous against the human also explores good vs. evil.

There is often a “sin” perpetrated by horror Protagonists. The classic Psycho begins with Marion Crane stealing money from her job. Her intentions are understandable, maybe ...

Bryan, fresh out of college in Tara, is moving toward a path to become a full-fledged bard. The entire process to become a poet, minstrel, or chronicler takes a lengthy twelve years to complete. Bard lute in hand, Bryan journeys to a tiny shanty town in the North called Oi ...