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 ...

Writing unsavoury people
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, June 5, 2025Chuck Cunningham Syndrome in Comics
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, May 15, 2025
The old 70s sitcom, Happy Days, is a mine of tropes. It's where we get the phrase “Jump the Shark” as there was an episode where The Fonz water-skied over a shark for some reason. Happy Days was also a spin-off generator, giving us Laverne and Shirley, Mork and ...
FEATURED COMIC --> The Cloud Girls
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 14, 2025
June Santiago, Clover Cristina Condray, and Simone are three best friends living in a fantastical world filled with retro arcades and chonky, gigantic winged rabbits. An avid reader of comics, June is in love with comic book superhero, Garlic Man, whom she wishes to marry one day. While playing games ...
Quackcast 733 - Watch again: Rediscovering
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 1, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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Watching, reading, and listening to things a second, third or even a million times can offer you a whole new experience. Why do we pick up the same thing to enjoy again? It could be ...
Quackcast 725 - Your fave comics as a kid
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 4, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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We're chatting about the comics you liked as a little kiddo this week! The topic was inspired by a thread in the DD forums. This is always a fun topic and I always have to mention ...
JohnCelestri of Bloodwing Fire Fist Angel will be a Featured Guest at Lexington Comic Con this Year; All Ripping Off King Arthur Strips Are Now in One Place; TheDeeMan’s Novella “The Wee Ones” has been Reviewed by Horror Reads!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 6, 2025Notice of JohnCelestri Being Invited as a Featured Guest at Lexington Comic Con This Year
Photo: “JohnCelestri to be Featured Guest at Lexington Comic and Toy Con This Year”. (January 2025)
John Celestri writes:
“Hi, and Happy New Year to you!
I’ve been invited to the Lexington Comic -
Here ...
And Now Let's Party Like It's 1994!
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 26, 2024
Greetings! I hope you've all had an enjoyable holiday season so far, no matter what you're celebrating and regardless of actual ‘holidays’ are part of it for you.
The end of the year is still about a week away, but this will be my last regular Newspost of ...
Front and Back
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2024
I'm not sure if I've written a post about this already, but an interesting thing we have to think about sometimes with comics is how to make the characters, the foreground, stand out from the background.
Here are my notions on that:
- using human natural ability and instinct ...
Revisiting Hayao Miyazaki’s Film, The Wind Rises, Ten Years Later
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 23, 2024
Photo: “End of Summer 2024”. Photograph taken by kawaiidaigakusei. (September 2024)
Ten years before Miyazaki’s latest animated film, The Boy and the Heron (2023), was released last year, The Wind Rises (2013/2014) was announced to be Miyazaki’s final film.
In a Drunk Duck forum post dated February ...
Group Activities
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 8, 2024
Group Dynamics
I'm working on putting some teams together for some new comics. Will I ever get to them? Yes, I think so!
Figuring out an ensemble is a long process. At least it is for me.
Before I started my first webcomic, Typical Strange, I spent over a ...