Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I want to turn our attention to the power of small moments in time that gives comics so much poignancy and power when dealing with time. When we last talked about ...

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We base our images of aliens in comics on aliens in TV shows and movies mostly, because those are the ones we all know.
But movie aliens ...

In the whole “show don't tell” thing that is the holy grail of ‘good storytelling’ (yes but not always, this is for a newspost of another time) what they usually don't tell you is that behavioral patterns are your friend.

To show rather than tell, you need to ...

Hey all! Wasn’t in the mood to put up another poem for this Sunday post, so I’d thought I instead dedicate this Sunday post to something I’ve done recently. Last Tuesday June 6th it was Swedish National Day and the day before that day I spent the ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. We return to our regularly scheduled program this week, where I find interesting panels and wax philosophical about them. Previously we did a scavenger hunt which was a lot of fun, but we ...

Eliana is a professional customer care representative by day, but as soon as night falls, the dark blonde wig comes off and the true pink-haired alter ego, “BANF”, is ready to create with a spray can in hand. “XOXO”, a famous street artist with red and blue split hair and ...

It’s been quite a bit since I last made a character deep dive, but since I got a bit more time on my hands, here we are! Today’s Character Analysis is about Levana from Vampire Girl by Marie Kerns and J_Scarbrough!

So, first things first! Vampire Girl is ...

Photo: "The True Face: 267”. Drawn by Marcorossi. (April 2023)

Hear ye, hear ye! The final page of The True Face by Marcorossi went Live on The Duck on Sunday, May 21, 2023.

Here is a message from the creator of The True Face:

Marcorossi writes:

Hi!

I just finished ...

Captain Gold, made of flesh and blood and a tiny bit cyborg, is a member of O.R.E., a secret organization alongside members: Colonel Brass, Captain Cobalt, Captain Silver, and known Combat Model Robotron, Captain Copper. There is an ongoing battle between humankind versus Robotrons, androids created by Professor ...

Photo: “Windmills through the Passenger Side Window”. Photo taken by me. (June 2022).

“When June came
The grasses headed out
And turned brown,
And the hills turned brown
Which was not a brown
But a gold and saffron
And red—
An indescribable color.
And from then on until the next ...