-Art by Trico
Like any other backpack-toting American kid in the nineteen-nineties, the one thing I looked forward to each week (well, after TGIF) was Saturday morning cartoons. My absolute favorite show was X-Men The Animated Series which led to frequent trips to old, dusty comic shops to buy Series ...

Weirdos, Loners, and Mutants: How the Uncanny X-Men Taught Me How to Embrace the Outsider
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 6, 20162016 DRUNK DUCK AWARDS: FYC Comic Jam and Commercials
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 30, 2016
The Drunk Duck Awards FYC Comic Jam has started and going strong. There is still one last page that needs to be claimed. Also, anyone that wants to can send in “Commercial Pages” that break away from the plot. We have some people that are submitting an FYC page without ...
Casual Comicking
HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 27, 2016
For the last few years I’ve been focusing almost exclusively on university. I’ve been working on some stuff off and on (see my lonely little title page here), but I haven’t finished an entire issue of a comic since the year I graduated high school. Basically, you ...
When the Best-Laid Plans Go Awry
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 23, 2016
-conceptual bridge design by kawaiidaigakusei
"Tell me why all the best laid plans fall apart in your hands. And my good intentions never end, the way I meant.“ -James Blunt ”Best Laid Plans“
My desktop computer has a lot of saved files that have accumulated over the years. Every once ...
The Great DD Electronic Meet-Up
HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 6, 2016
Hi all, for those of you who are regular users of the site but don't frequent the forums, I just wanted to draw your attention to this. We've been talking about doing basically a big group skype “meet-up.” If you're interested, the thread is here: http://www ...
Coloring Outside the Lines
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 2, 2016
I like to follow the rules.
I grew up in a world where green means “Go” and red means “Stop” (while yellow sometimes means “Drive As Fast As You Can”). Usually if there is a rule written somewhere, I probably abide by it. The benefit of following rules is that ...
Are Friends Electric? (Guest post by Gunwallace)
HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 29, 2016
“Well, are they?”
Gary Numan (and Tubeway Army) posed that question in 1979. These days it has more relevance that ever before.
“It's cold outside, and the paint's peeling offa my walls.”
As winter approaches in the Southern Hemisphere (winter is coming) my thoughts naturally turn a little ...
Join the Drunk Duck Awards FYC Comic Jam!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 25, 2016
A MESSAGE FROM Niccea:
I decided that for this year we will try out doing a comic jam for the For Your Consideration (FYC) pages.
"A comicjam is a creative process where one or more artists collaborates on drawing or painting one single comic. Often the process is that one ...