Duck and Mantis Play Go!

A comic panel. A raven peers in through a window

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 12 - that's the last page of the Prologue! There's a lot more to come, so stay tuned for Episode 1: "The Barbarians!"
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14.10.2025 16:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A photo of a table covered in zine stuff and buttons. A tiny pink duck sits on a square reader

Behind the scenes (zines??) at Lone Star Zine Fest, Day 1, where we were gifted this exceedingly lovely, non-bad duck

12.10.2025 13:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A comic page. Duck concedes the game. Mantis offers to review the game. We pan in on a window as they chat

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 11
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07.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trish, a brown tabby, checks a Duck and Mantis page for print quality and accuracy

If you're in Austin, check out the Lone Star Zine Fest this weekend! We'll be selling our very first color copies of Issue 1. Here's quality control hard at work #comix #zines

07.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A comic page. A white raven and a black raven fly off a branch into the white space of the page.

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 10
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30.09.2025 15:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally remembered to take pics during the process! Pretty much every panel of Duck and Mantis is colored with watercolor and gouache. Which means lots of masking tape and quiet prayers. Lots and lots. #duckandmantisplaygo #comix #watercolor

27.09.2025 14:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A comic page. Duck and Mantis consider the project in the middle of the page, surrounded by 4 panels. The first shows some kind of superhero dressed in green; the second a newspaper comic with cartoony duck and mantis characters; the third a high contrast image of a man; the fourth 2 ravens from the previous panel, upset at their treatment.

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 9
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23.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A comic page. Duck talks about her raven story, the first story she ever wrote. A brief flashback shows young Duck writing at the computer. The panel pans out, showing her story world - two ravens, one white, one black in the trees. They're eavesdropping. Mantis says that completing the story was an accomplishment.

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 8
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16.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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How to Understand Your Go-Playing Friend: Part 2

Share this with a friend who doesn't play Go so they can understand you a little better. ❤️

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13.09.2025 12:34 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A comic page. Mantis expands on his idea for the comic and prepares for his next move

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 7
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09.09.2025 15:37 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Mantis and Duck describe what the comic will be like. Duck panics internally at the idea of having to draw like comic master Moebius, who mocks her from the grave (but like, rightfully)

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 6
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02.09.2025 15:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Progress shot from the coloring process. Truly an important panel to highlight
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02.09.2025 01:59 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A comic page. Duck and Mantis continue to play. Mantis threatens to capture a stone. Duck wonders to herself if it can be saved, then continues the conversation.

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 5
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26.08.2025 15:40 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The Mantis, the magician of the goban

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25.08.2025 20:45 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A comic page. Duck recounts past attempts at collab comics, which begin with enthusiasm and end with doubt

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 4
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19.08.2025 15:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A comic - introducing the character of Duck

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 3
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12.08.2025 15:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A comic - introducing the character of Mantis

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 2
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05.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A comic page. Duck and Mantis prepare to start a game of go

Duck and Mantis Play Go! p. 1
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29.07.2025 15:42 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Title page for the comic Duck and Mantis Play Go. Duck and Mantis sit at a table with a 9x9 go mat and two bowls with go stones

Duck and Mantis Play Go! Title page

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29.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A watercolor comic page in the process of being colored

Coloring on the next episode is now underway! Here's a sneak peek
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29.07.2025 03:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A photo of a cat sitting next to a blue coffee mug and a Duck button

Photo outtake, featuring Theo

20.07.2025 03:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So happy to have had the chance to hit up the US Go Congress this year! Thanks to everybody who took a button
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20.07.2025 03:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A cover for a comic, Duck and Mantis Play Go, featuring a humanoid duck and mantis falling amongst go stones

Today's the launch day of our new webcomic, Duck and Mantis Play Go! Updates, sketches and other fun stuff will be posted here for those who want to follow along.

Go read the Prologue at duckandmantis.wordpress.com

#comics #webcomics #go #baduk

17.07.2025 18:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0