The title is from a live blog entry on The Guardian website on the 10th of June. The post quoted Trump spreading a conspiracy theory that the Governor of California and the Mayor of LA had paid protestors to cause trouble. The not-so-subtle phrasing makes it quite clear what the ...

"... the president said without reference to reality."
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, June 12, 2025Quackcast 738 - Ensemble casts
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 6, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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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 ...
Where's Willy?
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, May 1, 2025
One of the world's oldest bit of sequential art (which people like Scott McCloud and Will Eisner tell us are just comics in a proto-form) was in the news recently. The Bayeux tapestry is a 70 metre long, 50cm wide embodied cloth that while not containing the panel divisions ...
Back from the Dead
Tantz_Aerine at 2:02AM, April 19, 2025
It's Resurrection Saturday today! What better occasion then than this to talk about the resurrection trope?
Usually, cancelling out a character's death is not a good thing to do in a story. It undermines the weight of the stakes involved and/or the sacrifice or seriousness of the ...
When Life's Too Crazy for Fiction
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 29, 2025
I generally avoid using current events in my articles about webcomics, but this time I can't help it. Signalgate has been living rent free in my mind ever since the editor in chief of the Atlantic broke the story.
There are many reasons for that, most of them not ...
Dungeons & Dragons as therapy
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, March 20, 2025
There was a recent article in the Guardian about how playing Dungeons and Dragons had helped siblings bond and cope with the death of their father. It got me thinking about the role that role-playing has played (now there's a phrase) in my own life.
For me role-playing began ...
Quackcast 718 - Dumbarses
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 17, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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This Quackcast was inspired by world renowned idiot Robert F Kennedy Jnr. We decided to talk about writing dumb characters. I keep calling him John F Kennedy Jnr because I am also an idiot. Some context: he ...
How Dan Da Dan saved me from existential dread
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Nov. 9, 2024
My comic partner and I have already started work on our comic projects for next year. The beginning of the year is always crazy for us, so we’re using the small grace period we have now to try and front load our comic work as much as we can ...
The Series Bible
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 19, 2024
I was just reading one of the original Star Trek Series Bibles. It's actually called the “Writer's Guide” and was a, well, a guide for new writers who were interested in writing a Star Trek script. It's most interesting!
Being very interested in fiction and writing for ...
M.Organ Art Reached Its 800th Page; InkyMoondrop Releases Premier Chapter of Imago, Nebraska, AND 1200th Page Milestone for Blessed Days!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 2, 2024
Photo: “M.Organ Milestone (Adults Only)”. M.Organ Art by MOrgan. (August 2024)
M.ORGAN ART MILESTONE
MOrgan writes:
“Hi
M.Organ Art reached 800 pages on Sunday, August 25.
Since the update probably isn't safe for the front page, I've made up a hopefully safe image.
Have ...