Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. We return to our workshop series this week. First, some housekeeping.

The first workshop was spread across two posts; one to gather your thoughts and introduce the comic, and the second to cover ...

I recently got married and for our honeymoon, my newly anointed husband convinced me that it would be more than well spent playing Baldur's Gate 3. For a whole week, we sequestered ourselves in the study, turned off our phones, rigged out our monitors and couch co-oped our way ...

Comics are one of the most effective forms of art.
The most important part of all art is communication. It's often overlooked in favour of “meaning” but without the ability to effectively communicate that meaning, the meaning becomes meaningless. Concepts and manifestos are utterly inadequate because they usually become ...

The Anti Continuity

Last time I brought up the ‘standalone episode series’ and the ‘serialized episodes’ approach.

Used Books mentioned Anthologies, which is (kind of) the anti-continuity approach. I love anthologies, and have contributed to a few over the years.

Nothing but respect to The Twilight Zone, one of the ...

Photo: Android Blues by Stahlberg. (June 2019 to July 2024)

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Stahlberg writes:

“Hi,

I just the other day finished my comic Android Blues, does that count as a milestone?


Best regards


Stahlberg”

Congratulations on completing Android Blues, Stahlberg!

Android Blues Synopsis

Hong Kong 2054: an escort android is framed ...

Last night I had an interesting conversation with one of my favorite creators (you know who you are) about what makes a webcomic (or comic, or movie, or book, anything applies) preachy. Preachy as in trying to force an agenda, or ideology, or outlook down the audience's throat whether ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. Last time, I asked about how you all scripted your comics and got a lot of interesting responses I wanted to run through here. So let’s run through all of them.

First ...

Photo: “Abbeycourt Manor, Spring 2025, Venue TBD”. Albino Squirrel Productions Flier by ShadowGamer. (June 2024)


ShadowGamer of Powerup Comics, Powerup Adventure, If Bernie Won, Super Brigade, Gamer Dilbert, and Abbeycourt Manor has MEGA NEWS that is so Out Of This World that it is In This Actual World.

ShadowGamer Reports ...

Finally! It's time for yet another Creator Interview, and as usual, I have the pleasure of interviewing one more fantastic DDer! This time it's Paul Eberhadt, a wonderful artist and comic creator with a unique style I could discern among many!

Paul already has a bio on his ...

Photo: “Animation Practice”. Kingdom of Cats by Rachel87. (2024)

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Kingdom of Cats by Rachel87

Rachel87 writes:

“Comic strip number 100!

Kingdom of Cats just put up it's 100th comic strip! Not the 100th update but the 100th comic strip :D I'm very excited :) Yay!

Thank you everyone ...