Wow, I’ve been neglecting my duties! Well, not really, computer problems and all that. Anyway, some drunk duck news from Skoolmunkee! Brace for impact!

Today’s featured comic is Opey the Warhead!

It’s Opey’s first day at school and he’s a little nervous. Not because hi sdad seems to be a real weirdo who gives bad advice, or because the city he lives in (which he’s never seen before) is some sort of manic psudo-future populated with robots and clones… but because he’s afraid the other kids won’t like him. You actually feel bad for the poor guy as he realizes people are afraid of him because he looks like a bomb. Fun, absurd, sad, and smart- oh and it looks nice too.

Read opey the Warhead

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Hey uh, the icons don’t seem to be an option any more, so uh… sorry this post doesn’t have the “Wn” icon. Just pretend it’s there!

Monday’s featured comic is The Necropolis Chronicles!
Jaina’s first day at her new boarding school is a drag. No one likes her, and the feeling is mutual. Jaina knows she is different from her schoolmates- but she doesn’t quite realize just how different until she’s captured by three weirdos in costumes, has to escape a run-down hick cabin in the woods, and sought after by witches and demons. Turns out she’s probably the normal one.

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There’s a new community project starting up in the Networking and Community forum (there always is!) - this one is called Tired Comics and it’s all about sleep deprivation (and the comics people draw in that state)… basically, draw or make anything while tired, send it to Bocaj, and he’ll post it up over at Tired Comics! (Please execute safely, do not drive motor vehicles…)

Although a bit newer to the Duck, Majin Kedamoki ’s comic The Final Zone is 1 year old on July 23rd!

The Compozerz by antcomics has recently hit 25 pages! Woo!

For Your Eyes Only… is now a whopping 250 pages old! Congrats, Kohdok!

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Monday’s featured comic is Awakenings!

In the relatively near future, a policeman agrees to assit on a difficult and disturbing case, chasing a brutal criminal that has eluded him before. But how does this lead to him murdering his own son…? Professional level art will draw you in, but the compelling story will make you stay.
Visit Awakenings

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nibbi has finished 2nd in Round 3 of Small Press Idol with his comic “The Stupendous Adventures of Spud”, which means his comic is now in Round 4 and is available for sale! Every person who <a href=”http://www.dimestoreproductions.com/content27.html
“>purchases a copy of the comic counts as a vote - so if you want to see nibbi succeed, or if you like comics about stupendous adventures and/or spuds, get going!

Brother Zag’s Panthea Obscura reached 50 pages on Saturday!

A Call to Destiny Reloaded (nsfw!) by Dumok is now at 25 pages!

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I’ve updated the Big Community Projects Thread so be sure to swing by and check out the new ones (or old ones!) and see if there’s any you’d like to participate in! Most notably, Quack With the Ducks is going to start its 3rd round, and Tired Comics is still gladly accepting submissions!

Saturday is milestone day!

Today we have several comics reaching 50 pages- congrats to you guys!

Off Hours, a DD community project, is one of those reaching 50 pages- and is only 11 pages away from chapter 1’s conclusion! Everyone participating in this project has done a great job, it’s a feat of organization and dedication!

National Dex (an adorable hand-drawn pokemon comic) by lucky7s76 is also turning 50! 50 pages is a lot of work, so be proud of yourself

Rori’s Because of Ivan also hits 50, and she has this to add: Rori wrote:

It’s a sketchy diary comic, which I ask that people not comment on (so everyone feels like their reading it first, weird, I know), but I still feel really proud that I’ve stuck with it. I dunno, it’s like getting to read my diary without breaking into my house. Good thing, right?

I dunno, if you like breaking into houses, it could be a bad thing…

And at a whopping 350 we have I Fell Down the Stairs, I think 350 is a number that many of us can only hope to achieve. (Also, ifelldownthestairs says that nominated for a DD award was awesome! I will add that it is nominated for “Most deliciously offensive comic” which I’m pretty sure is a good advertising point.

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Drunk Duck Award finalists announced!

The finalists for the Drunk Duck award have been revealed! You can find out about them in their forum thread, it’s quite a list! Stay tuned to find out the winners…

Amanda is also looking for panelists and judges! It’s a fun way to be involved even if your comic isn’t up for any awards (and even if it is!) Get more information here!

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Thursday’s featured comic is Luna’s Journey!
Luna is a wolf, sort of. She comes from a pack that, in legend, is descended from a pair of humans turned to wolves. When she finds a human lost in the snow she decides to help him, curious about these beings she’s supposedly related to. He in turn suspects that she is no ordinary wolf. She wants so much to find out about him and communicate with him that something interesting happens… The lovely art has a manga influence, and the story is proving to be quirky and a little bit magical.

Read Luna’s Journey

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Remember Surfboards and Rayguns? Remember the Comic Book Challenge? Let’s hope so because Surfboards and Rayguns is now in the Comic Book Challenge’s Top Ten! The Top Ten are now open to voting and there are video pitches of the creators, including Bradleyo!

Personally I’m quite proud that we’ve had Drunk Duck people in the Top 10 all 3 years of the CBC so far.

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inhuman has reached 25 pages! Congrats!

Did you know that Doctor Shadow’s The Chronicles of Wyrden is 75 pages old? Well now you do, and you have no excuse!

Good Guy (by Androoo) has reached 125 pages! He tells me he’s in the middle of his first multi-issue story arc too. Keep it up!

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Monday’s featured comic is Lucky Dawg!

If you have crazy freaks as the villains of your city, then maybe you should use crazy freaks to try and stop them. Lucky Dawg is one such man… thing. Actually… he’s a werewolf. The pro-level art is wild and colorful, much like the characters. There’s just something really satisfying about reading a comic about a happy wereworlf, no matter how crazy and violent he is.
Read Lucky Dawg

Roll out the red carpet, dust off yer tux, and go buy that dress you had your eye on! This is BIG… you aren’t missing it are you???

The first round of Drunk Duck awards have been announced! The virtual ceremony is underway. Start below and work your way forward:
http://www.drunkduck.com/Drunk_Duck_Awards_2008/index.php?p=446208

Winners will be announced up until September 5th!

Kudos to amanda who did a supa schweet job of putting it all together! Special thanks to all of the users that stepped up to be panelists! Great job!

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Monday’s featured comic is Alone!

A young girl is traveling with her parents on a dark and lonely road when they have a car accident. After Akiko wakes she finds herself hurt, alone, and scared in a world possibly not her own, possibly at the mercy of a powerful and frightening being, and possibly not even alive. What is there to do but carry on? This black and white manga-styled comic is very decompressed, with a slow pacing that builds up the suspense.

Read Alone

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I wonder if modern newspaper guys get to yell “Stop the presses” just like the olden-times guys did? That would be fun.

Contest winner!

DrunkDuck user Moondog (who does the comic Crackwalker) has let me know that he has won a contest run on Zeros2Heroes which let him get one of his comic scripts professionally produced! Congratulations to him, I think a lot of people will be very jealous.

His winning comic is called Hero High and is available now, so let’s see if we can get him some props, eh? I can’t repost everything he sent me, but he’s written a description of the comic here. It appears that the zeroes to heroes website is strong on social networking, so those users looking for new places to connect with comic creators should check it out.

Publishing!

comic_chic’s The Dreamer (you know, the lovely featured Revolutionary war one) has been picked up by IDW publishing, and can be ordered NOW through Previews! The order code is SEPT084131E and will go on sale in November, so if you want a copy, be sure and tell your comic store to get it in for you! Congrats, comic_chic!

Comic ending! I mean,

It’s time to say goodbye to Flick and Jube (by simonmackie) at 97 pages. We love our comics on DD, and it’s always a bit sad when one ends- although it’s made a bit better when the comic has reached its proper ending (vs the author just deciding to pack it in). Flick and Jube has a proper ending, so there is a complete story just waiting to be read!

Milestones!

Signs tell me to STOP and YIELD, but Signz tells me that his comic Safety Man has reached 25 pages, and that he demands cake, pie, and dairy treats. However I am sure he would welcome any visitors regardless of their willingness to bear bakery products.

Pokemon Sinnoh Surfer by Walrus has reached 150 pages! Walrus is a pretty productive guy! (On a side note, every time I make an announcement about Walrus’s Surfer comic, I think of the fake ad in Futurama telling people to ‘ride the walrus’…)

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Yep, that’s right! Zorphbert & Fred gets their own newspost! Why? Because we neglected to tell you that Z&F celebrated its 200th page on Wednesday, and I feel terrible about it not being posted!

Check out Dawns super cool splash page filled with lotsa fans of her comic!

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Sorry the news is a bit late today. The site is going super-slow for me and doesn’t want to load anything. I got tired of messing with it and came back later.

solidjake is running a contest for his comic Random Crapola! Help name the main character! The names must be original and funny, and after solidjake chooses his 5 favorites, the readers will get to vote for the one they like best. If you want to enter a name, do so in the comic’s blog!

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Quite a few milestones today, so I will try to keep them short!

I’m a bit late with this, but Grin-n-Spirit by ghostrunner reached 275 comics on Monday!

Priest_Revan’s 2s A Company has hit 150 pages!

Reinderdijkhuis (how do you pronounce that?) announces that Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan has reached 400 comics today! It’s been updating every single day, and will continue to do so until the backlog is posted!

Also having a milestone today is Circque Do Star Wars by Druss01, which reaches 25 comics!

On Saturday, Angelos (by GreatScottComix) turns 50 pages old! Congrats!

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Thursday’s featured comic is Blood Groove!

Pandemonium, Inc. handles supernatural problems, big and small. That doesn’t mean they’ve got things easy. (However, as hipsters with magic powers, they make them LOOK easy.) One of their number has got a prophecy hovering over his head, and we all know how those work out. Colorful, strong art style, interesting story and fun dialogue. Check it out!

Read Blood Groove

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madisonchance’s Dirtheads has reached 100 strips!

Arcanic by arcanewind recently hit 25 pages!

Loud_G tells me that George the Dragon reached 75 pages on friday!

Hello everyone, I am back! Actually I have been back for almost 2 weeks now (geez) but for some reason I spent most of my free time playing on my 360. Oblivion is a WONDERFUL time waster. I love those Ayleid ruins.

Ozone had a pretty good idea with these thumbnails (although it’s sad they don’t wrap or something at least) so, although it’s a little extra work for poor little old me, I will keep on with them because I CARE!

Community Stuff!

Hey guys! This year’s Drunk Duck Secret Santa is ON! Hurry and sign up (you do a picture, you get a picture!) and they’re always looking for people willing to do a second pic in case someone needs to drop out, or in case there is a DEADBEAT. Deadbeats the people who vanish, or who simply don’t do their half… they’re barred from entering the next year, and we’re going to announce their names in a newspost afterward just so everyone knows what a deadbeat they are! So, SECRET SANTA IS AWESOME AND FUN. BUT NO DEADBEATS OK BECAUSE THAT IS NOT FUN.

PIT_FACE’s community project V.U.S. (an acronym for “Viscious Utter Shit”), where creators can be horrible to other people’s characters, has passed the 25 page mark! Congrats, and as far as I’m aware they’re still taking new participants!

Milestones!

Kung Fu Komix by Nickguy hit 25 pages a while back but somehow it got left out of the announcements then, so here it is now! 25 pages! Probably more by now!

MysteriousJeff’s Poketto Monsutaa Special Super Ex Adventure XXXVX The Chronicles of Red Blue Green and a Bunch of Other Kids With Colors for Names (I think that’s all) has reached 100 pages! Like many delicious food additives, the author cautions that “reading this comic is not a suitable substitute for purchasing the original comic”. Take that as you will!

The Chronicles of Wyrden by Doctor Shadow has also reached 100 pages! It has a shorter title, I know, but there’s things like nudity in it!

Also at 100 pages is Rainbow Connection by I am Candyman! He cautions that the comic is gay themed, although not too inappropriate. So I say, you raging homophones might not want to click on it! Everyone else, feel free!

The loverly CQB Epics by JoeL_CQB reached 50 pages yesterday! “And it’s bloody!”

Pixel by Sean C has surpassed 25 comics, and also hit the half-year mark! Congrats to you!

Also at 25 pages we’ve got Froobius’s Walter Babble! “Froobius” is just a fun word to say, don’t you think?

Today’s featured comic is Off The Grid!

Mitch and Steve are roomates living in Austin. They get along as well as you could expect - Steve’s idea of a ‘veggie friendly’ meal for Mitch is a chili dog with sprouts on top; Mitch doesn’t care how cruel the girl he’s sleeping with is to Steve, because she’s hot. There’s a little bit of everything here: geeks, anti-geeks, trucks, music, Lance Armstrong…. The comic isn’t about class struggle, it’s about struggling to have some class.

Read Off The grid

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Go A Viking is an epic fantasy with Vikings, magic, blood, battle, and high adventure! By Bravo1102, this detailed saga features a mature, intelligent storyline, with compelling characters. But most striking of all is that it’s all done with photos of meticulously dressed and posed figurines in historically accurate gear on perfectly staged and lit sets! It’s like a movie. Take heed: this comic has an M rating.

Visit Go a Viking

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Drunk Duck Secret Santa Signups!

Crossover High by Maverik & co. has been on Drunk Duck for a year! We’re glad to have you.

JP’s Bearly Abel has hit the 25 page mark! Congrats on the first milestone!

The following comics are 50 pages old!

Awesome by therealtj (and it’s also halfway over, so running out of time, folks)

Ryushin’s Armageddon Ro!

Barely Listening by Wills42, and is also 1 year old on the 17th!

… and Walter Babble by Froobius!

Now for the 75′ers

Safety Man by Signz, and drinks are on him!

one_am’s One A.M.!

Stickfodder’s Stickfodder was Friday, and continues the ongoing storyline!

Blitzkrieg1701’s Far Out There is 100 pages deep! He says it is “a scifi comedy sort of like what Futurama, Red Dwarf, or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy would be like if they were less witty and original.” Now that’s advertising! …?

@$$hole! by trevoramueller turned 150 on Friday, which was also two days after his birthday, and also marks the conclusion of the photo-story arc that got the comic nominated for Best Photo Comic in the 2008 DD Awards!

These comics are swimming in pages, someone save them

ipokino’s Robot Wars has hit the 200 page mark! They also have six issues and one graphic nove in print for anyone who likes their comics on paper in full color!

Stick Figure Comics by lidless_i has reached 300 pages!

Th_Mole’s The One Panel Case Files has reached 300 “without any gaps, stumbling, or hiatus”! Now that’s an achievement. However I’m to warn any readers that he will be dropping continuity here on out in favor of a traditional one-panel format, because he has found that “continuity and single-panel strips don’t mix.” Hopefully that didn’t scare you off, because “The series is a parody of macabre and noir, and is about a haunted bohemian heiress, a psychic mystic con-artist, a supposedly good mad genius, and a hard-boiled teddy bear.”