Lilly first draws the attention of Satan, the Devil, after drafting a contract—signed in blood—while a sixteen-year-old student at an all girl’s Catholic high school. Two years later, Satan has returned and this time, Lilly has been waiting with her bedroom walls plastered in “Rosemary’s Baby ...
What you really, really want
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 11, 2022
This is gonna be yet another rambling kind of post and a long one at that–so be warned. In the recent month I’ve been doing some soul searching that ties into this personal Christmas shopping spree of sorts that I’ve had recently. To be more specific, I ...
The Right Jazz
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Nov. 27, 2022
Been dragging my feet writing this Sunday article - among many other things - as I’ve been hit by this latest compulsive obsession of mine to keep rearranging my Youtube library to perfectly push out the distracting vestiges of my past internet media consumption, in order to become more focused in ...
Pretentious?
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Nov. 20, 2022
This is an article I’m writing after midnight while being drunk on mixed drinks of brännvin and julmust. It’s November. I need booze to cope with the Scandinavian winter gloom that hits your soul like a hammer this time of the year (It’s a thing up here ...
Panel By Panel: 'Phineus: Magician for Hire' and Visual Pacing
hpkomic at 4:31PM, Nov. 18, 2022
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. I am working on another comic submission from a couple of posts ago. This week our volunteer is the creator of Phineus: Magician for Hire, Phinmagic. Specifically, he sent in page four of ...
Panel By Panel: Spirit Monk and Crossing Boundaries
hpkomic at 7:18AM, Nov. 4, 2022
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.
Last week I invited creators to send pages and panels they are proud of for me to look at and potentially write about. The response was good, and I am glad to say ...
Panel By Panel: Them There Hills and Value Contrast
hpkomic at 8:43AM, Sept. 23, 2022
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.
This week I want to explore one element of art I have been thinking about lately as I color comics for some other creators. Before that, however, I needed to find a comic ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Vast as the Night
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 7, 2022
Wander within a watercoloured world with stream-of-conscious wonder where a gentleman discovers an oblong shape on the sidewalk while walking. The mysterious shape turns out to be the entry point to another dimension, where rules of gravity, tangible reality, and the physical self are redefined in this new realm. Darkness ...