Often when I'm trying to introduce a friend or family members to graphic novels (or I'm trying to convince them that comics can have more substance than Archie or Superman), I will gift them a copy of something by Guy Delisle. For those of you not familiar with ...

Yesterday, August 28th, was the anniversary of Jack Kirby's birthday. This has prompted some people to talk about how his work affected them, and made me think a bit about comic book influences and artists we look up to. Although I wasn't actively a huge fan of Kirby ...

Lite Bites needs artists! Lite Bites is a long-running community project where artists and writers come together on short comics.

From Genejoke:
“We have various shot scripts awaiting artists, however, in an attempt to try something a little different I'm looking to get Operation moon 2 drawn but a ...

Thank you to everyone for voting - finalists for the 2014 Drunk Duck Awards have been announced!

From Niccea:
"The finalists have been announced. Congratulations to them all! http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/176232/

The assignment messages have gone out to all volunteers now. If you signed up to volunteer ...

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- Art by Gunwallace

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There's no question in my opinion as to whether representation of different kinds of people in fiction matters. Having spent my childhood poring over superhero comics in which the girl's job is usually to turn invisible and press a button or something, I ...

Apparently the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is coming out right about now. While the explosion-filled trailer I saw for it (before the equally explodey Transformers 4) made up my mind that I won't be seeing this particular movie, comics have been the inspiration for some great films.

Because ...

Are you up for having people poke fun at your comic? Genejoke is looking for volunteers for Lite Bites to review!

From Genejoke:
“For a little while the lite bites reviews have been ninja reviews, attacking unsuspecting creators with our unique (well unusual) review style. Now we are looking for ...

Niccea writes:
"We are doing good in recruiting presenters, but we need a lot more judges. So far, only two people have stepped up, and I thank them. However, if there are not more judges signing up, I will have to cancel this years' awards . Last time we did a ...

After some drama with the website the other day (I'm sure most of you noticed that the site was down for a time) and some cleverness on the part of ozoneocean, I'm writing my first newspost with DD officially under community control.

I'm pretty darn excited, and ...

My personality appears extroverted in the right social situations when I am surrounded by like-minded people, however I know deep down that I am truly an introvert because I recharge when I am by myself and drawing.

When I first started getting serious about webcomics in college, there were many ...