The Comic Strip

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 2, 2025


a couple of three-panel archie newspaper strips.

When I was a kid in Canada, we had “Saturday Funnies” in the newspaper. These were full pages (if memory serves, it was maybe 2-4 pages) of full color cartoons. You had your Beetle Bailey, your Family Circus, your Andy Capp, your Marmaduke ...


read more

I got nothing.

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 14, 2024



It's been a very tough week (as per usual these past few weeks) and I've been sitting here staring at the blank screen of my computer trying to think of a topic to write about for the newspost.

And I got nothing. I keep drawing blanks. I have ...



read more

Panel By Panel: Hello, Goodbye, Hello Again?

hpkomic at 10:31AM, Nov. 15, 2024



Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This will be the final update to this version of Panel By Panel.

First of all, it has been a pleasure to write here for y'all over the past two years. Can ...



read more

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 ...





read more

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 ...



read more

Panel by Panel: 'RATKIDS' and Visual Inspiration

hpkomic at 9:59AM, Oct. 18, 2024



Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.

Our very own Ozoneocean dropped the suggestion for this week, commenting in an earlier post: This from Facebook, by Ryan Ausbun: An action scene I felt pretty good about. Was inspired by 90s ...



read more

The Many Faces of Fear

Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Oct. 5, 2024



Hello there my fellow Quackernauts! As it’s the spooky season, what better time is there to explore one of my favourite genres, horror. Horror is many things, but at its core it’s intention is to challenge the human mind; to remind us that, despite all our attempts to ...

read more

Panel by Panel: 'Killer Ape Theory' and Establishing Scale

hpkomic at 11:21AM, Oct. 4, 2024



Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. Moving away from the workshop format this week, and returning to the more solo-assessments of panels and comics. This week, we have a panel pulled from Marco Rossi's comic [i[Killer Ape ...

read more

FEATURED COMIC --> The Books of Avo

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 2, 2024



Juliet stares blankly at the neighboring table where Whiteheart, a golden-haired gentleman sporting a mysterious scar running down the left side of his face sits surrounded by swarms of women. Her idle gaze returns to Don, this evening’s dinner date set up by her mother. Donny is a classmate ...

read more

Panel By Panel: Workshop - 'Omegan Survivors' Part Two

hpkomic at 10:35AM, Sept. 20, 2024



Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. We return to our workshop series this week. Last time we introduced this week's comic and asked for feedback for the workshop, allowing the community to weigh in and share some thoughts ...

read more

Forgot Password
©2011 WOWIO, Inc. All Rights Reserved Mastodon