The Sleeping Satyr, the Barberini Faun

Last night, a distressed friend contacted me after a rather dreadful experience. She had just been on the most awkward dinner date with a man she thought was a gentleman based on his good looks and charm, but he turned out to be the ...

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In this Quackcast we chat about the categorisation of work by specific genres and how it makes it easier to promote your work to people, while for fans it makes it easier to find what you're into, but it can also be a bad thing when people categorise ...

Usedbooks writes:

My side project, Strange Creatures, just passed 50 pages, so it's kinda legitimate now. It's more of an illustrated novel than a graphic novel. Anyone looking to check it out, I recommend starting at the beginning to avoid spoilers: http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Strange_Creatures/5561567/

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Everyone tends to have a strong opinion on Political Correctness so I thought why don't we try and have a chat about that and ask what people think. Can it be a problem in comics and other creative works? I was inspired by a video by Youtuber Metaron ...

It's that time of year again, the big blockbuster movies are coming and Marvels first movie of the year and contestant in this years superhero smack down is Captain America: Civil war.
Based on the massive Marvel crossover comic that saw Marvels superheroes taking sides over a controversial government ...

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The idea for this Quackcast came from a newspost by HippieVan. She had just read a comic version of Frankenstein and was disappointed at the simplistic way that the character's inner turmoil was rendered. She wondered about the different ways that “inner turmoil” is ...

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 ...

The DD awards are still under discussion, so find out about running or being nominated for the 2013 DD comic awards! Don't forget to participate in the category discussions, because some categories are going down without anyone to advocate for them!

The DD Radio play is looking to get ...

from ozoneocean:

This Fridays community spotlight is Abt Nihil, aka Joachim Lipski
Abt has a whole HOST of fantastic, sooper, dooper, high quality webcomics and published books. He’s a webcomicer supreme, frequentely featured here at DD! Just check out his work, it’s all listed in his profile, including ...

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VegaX is this week’s community spotlight. He’s been here with us at DD forever, but over the last few years he’s really come out and been more and more helpful in the community. He’s done a marvelous job managing the comic review section - http ...