I’ve been taking a break from drawing for a few months now, particularly as 2022 was coming to an end and I was really feeling the strain. I fell out of the habit of drawing however I am feeling the itch to go back and resume it. Despite the ...

Site redesign update, NEWS!

This is our first progress update on 2023!
There's not a lot to report at the moment. Alexey has fixed up the news page display so you can go through all the news updates and even listen to the latest Quackcast when you get t ...

what if there was a creepy basement…

Barbarian was one of the new movies I enjoyed last year. As far as I know, it got good reviews, and a mostly-positive reception. Some people criticized it for making no sense. It's a fair point - although like I said, I enjoyed ...

Photo: Book Cover for “The LookyLoo” by Darryl Hughes. (December 2022)

Big News Announcement: Darryl Hughes (aka TheDeeMan) has published a “scary suspenseful coming of age werewolf horror mystery thriller book for kids, teens, and adults”.

Here is what TheDeeMan has to say:

“I just published my first prose book ...

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 ...

It's customary during the final days of a year to do resolutions for the next one or overviews of what happened in the one that's ending.

Even if we buck the system, we kinda do think back and ahead, especially during New Year's Eve, don't we ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week we're talking about the comic Small Gods, created by Duck user Bof Phaff. Specifically, we are looking at a panel on “page 55 of chapter 6.”

First off, the panel ...

As we approach the end of another year, I had a few ideas about topics related to endings.

If you've read my articles for awhile, you may remember discussions about wants and needs - the plot objective that is more ‘physical’ is the want, and the emotional or thematic pursuit ...

Over here in Greece, it's Christmas Caroling day and also Day We Officially Start Eating Ourselves Into a Coma!

I hope however you're observing your Christmas Eve, that you have a good time, or a calm time, or a rejuvenating time with those you want around you but ...

Site redesign update, NEWS!
ThrisbyDude is working on a version of a new logo for the site! The idea will be to rotate through a bunch of logos by different people and use them to celebrate special days or publicise events. I really love what he's come up with ...