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Today we have on a super special guest, The Doodler! This is another on our technical series about art making and this time we're talking about lighting. Tantz suggested we ...

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Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 11, 2025Diamonds Are Forever?
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Feb. 20, 2025
Diamond Comic Distributors has gone bankrupt. As someone who once worked in a comic book shop, back in the 80s and 90s, it was something of a shock. I came over all nostalgic for their blue logo. I still have a number of cardboard boxes crammed with comics that have ...
Creator Interview: Genejoke
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 15, 2025
We are finally back with interviews, and who better to kick it off than with Genejoke, one of the most prolific, helpful, and active creators in the Duck!
Genejoke is invaluable in many group projects, including our top event, the Drunk Duck Awards, and its side event the Red Carpet ...
What Will Happen Without the Barbarians?
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 8, 2025
There is a poem by one of the most interationally famous Greek poets, Konstantinos Kavafis, called Waiting for the Barbarians. I invite you to give it a read (I've linked its translation) but here's the gist in a nutshell: It's about the Romans waiting for the Barbarians ...
Imago Nebraska by InkyMoondrop Completes Fourth Chapter; Shiortsighted by TomoTerry Concludes First Story Arc
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 30, 2024
Photo: “-Spring- Ch.4: Page 63”. Imago Nebraska created by InkyMoondrop. (December 2024)
CHAPTER COMPLETION MILESTONES
Chapter Four Comes to a Close in Imago, Nebraska
InkyMoondrop writes:
“Hey there! Time for another milestone announcement, thank you in advance! Imago, Nebraska's 4th chapter concludes on the 29th (Sunday) with the ...
Character Deep Dive: Vladimir Chekhov
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2024
It’s time for another Character Deep Dive, this within the amazing political war thriller The Second Crimean War by the awesome and proliferate The Doodler!
The Second Crimean War is an alternate history webcomic, of a different 1995 where, after the collapse of the USSR, the emerging, independent Ukraine ...
Character Deep Dive: Robin Sinclair
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 2, 2024
Today’s character deep dive is on Robin Sinclair, the main catalyst of everything taking place in the supernatural comedy drama that is Blessed Days by Inky Moondrop!
Blessed Days is the story of a young woman that unexpectedly becomes a mom and must handle raising a child- that’s ...
Panel By Panel: 'Phantom Force 3000' and Pushing the Craft
hpkomic at 3:11PM, Nov. 1, 2024
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.
This week we're looking at another comic by user HawkAndFloAdventures, who has become one of the most prolific creators on the site, grinding out comic after comic. it's very admirable and ...
The Psychology of Monsters
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 26, 2024
Halloween is just around the corner, so what better thing to do than talk about monsters?
Specifically, what has motivated humanity to create them, talk about them, fear them and love them across time and across culture.
Monsters are generally linked with our sense of fear. Fear is an adaptive ...
A Broken Heart
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 12, 2024
When we hear about a broken heart, usually our collective minds to go romantic disappointments and devastation. Unrequited love, betrayed love, or even love separated by death or any other type of force majeure.
And that's absolutely one type of heartbreak that is and will remain legit. It's ...