Welcome to the 17th Annual Drunk Duck Awards where every Duck Detective from Gumshoe to Chief is invited. The inquisitive Niccea is this year’s Master of Ceremonies. Fans of Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are in luck! This year’s theme is “Whodunit ...

I've spent a lot of this year dealing with the fallout of the death of a close friend. For whatever reason he picked as his executor a woman that none of the rest of his friends and family get along with. Actually, that's downplaying it. Most of them ...

It's not really talked about much, since trust isn't as flamboyant or flashy as love or praise or admiration. However, I think a strong case can be made that it is the most invaluable element defining human relationships on pretty much every aspect and every scale.

We see ...

I recently rewatched the The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, which is a 1996 released concert actually performed in December 1968. Various performers, including Jethro Tull, The Who, Taj Mahal, and Marianne Faithfull each perform a song. There were a few circus acts as well, including a fire eater ...

The ‘Quail’s Random' list of comics on The Duck front page is a holdover from the early days of Drunk Duck. There have been occasional noises made about removing it, but when push comes to shove people have spoken up for the random list. Personally, I like it. It ...

Photo: “Chronicles of the TMNT chapter 1 page 1”. Chronicles of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Mercuryviruscomic, fan-comic inspired by Eastman and Laird’s TMNT #1 1984. (May 2025)

Mercuryviruscomic writes:

“Good morning!


I just wanted to say that I have debuted a new fan-fiction comic called Chronicles of the ...

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Ensemble casts is the topic for today! But what do we mean by that? The way I'm defining it for THIS Quackcast is that you have a group of main characters where any of ...

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Happy Easter! Well that was Sunday, but happy Easter anyway. In honour of that yearly and ancient ritual holiday that has its roots in the rebirth of spring in the northern hemisphere our Quackcast is ...

Absolute Boyfriend: Volume 1

So, you’ve got this amazing story idea bouncing around in your head—yay, go you! But now comes the big question: how do you actually start the thing? You want that first page to blow your readers away, right? Let’s talk about one of ...

No matter what the characters in your story might be doing–fighting crime, resisting alien invasion, surviving in a harsh radioactive wasteland, or just working in an office–sometimes it's fun to remove them from their ‘regular’ activities and place them somewhere different and out of their social comfort ...