Photo: “Complimentary Paint Chips Extracted from the Hardware Store”. Photographed by kawaiidaigakusei. (September 2023)

The fastest and easiest way to uplift a lackluster mood is to seek out the paint aisle at a local home improvement store; scan through and collect all the paint chips that appear “calming”, “vibrant”, or ...

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Today we're talking about STAR TREK! Star Trek is a pretty influential piece of pop-culture. Most interesting to me is that it's a future that is NOT a dystopia. It's a large scale vision ...

One unsuspecting evening, Sam, a vampire, and Wolfie, a werewolf, are relaxing in front of the television with a full bowl of popcorn. Twenty minutes from now, a mad scientist is going to be blasted backwards in time with a time canon. The resulting time portal from the experiment gone ...

Last time I'd written about gender toxicity and what a trap it can be for creators seeking to write powerful characters. It is not something that only plagues the “strong female character” attempt, but also the “strong male character” and definitely the “strong LGBTQ+ character”.

Too many of these ...

ZOMBIES !!!!!
As The long hot summer progresses a boys thoughts are naturally drawn to the zombie apocalypse, one of the better types of apocalypse.



The ZOMBIE / 2009 / byronrempel
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APOCALYPSE JACK / 2009 / Pigz2010
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Amazering Zomby Fighturs / 2009 / TheTJ
So … what do you think about zombies and do you know of any ...

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 ...

So lately there has been a repetitive sequence of events that seems to carry on until some kind of death- of the story, of the company, or of the genre for a few years or so:

1. Disney remakes a classic fairytale or animated feature (live action/3D/etc)
2 ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I am tackling a reader request! I was pleased to find a message in my inbox here on the Duck from J_Scarbrough asking me to look at and share some thoughts ...

Photo: “Growlution is Returning in Two Weeks”. Drawn by Xade. May 2023.

MILESTONE

Growlution by Xade

Xade writes:

“Okay! The 50 is uploaded and ready to air on July 12, plus we are live and ben live for a few weeks. I look forward to the spotlight.”

Growlution Synopsis

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HELLO—
It's summer in the northern hemisphere! …. So hot

Here's some stories about anthropomorphic dudes

Here are the 3:

FIRST one here is a story from 2013 called Grim Dog by Saikiyo




Grim Dog
It's a short story about a couple of cat-like creatures living in a ...