I was fishing for smelts the other day and scooped up an old bottle, with a rolled-up paper inside. It contained the following:
In older literature I think it was common to have a story told by a narrator who was never a part of the action. Someone who may ...
Storytelling, Once Removed
Banes at 12:00AM, July 29, 2021QUACKCAST 540 - DD crash update and tests of character
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 20, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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On Friday the 16th the site was down for a while. Nasty, but we fixed that and chatted to our programmer Alexey about starting the update program ...
QUACKCAST 538 - Fashion and Trends in Webcomics
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 6, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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We chat about the styles and trends in webcomics and what causes them, whether it's people copying stuff they like, working with the limitations of the ...
Comic Prep Work
damehelsing at 12:00AM, July 4, 2021
One of the things I love the most about comics, is the prep work, which may not be obvious by the countless amount of times that I’ve stated that I’m doing absolutely no prep work as of now for Scorned; but when I worked on Scarred Eden, that ...
QUACKCAST 536 - #heroesdon'tdothat
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 22, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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There was ALL sorts of kerfuffle on the internet centred around the phrase “Heroes don't do that”.
It began with an interview of two people involved ...
QUACKCAST 534 - Biting off more than you can chew
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 8, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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(Image: By Pitface, abandoned antimissle site in ND)
Taking on more than you can handle - i.e. James Cameron and JJ Abrams are good directors and writers ...
QUACKCAST 532 - Fixing art to make it less sexy?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 25, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Tantz made a great newspost about this little trend of “fixing” people's art to make it less sexy, as if there was something wrong with sexy ...
QUACKCAST 530 - What is SciFi?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 11, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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So what IS SciFi? Well it's a pretty wide umbrella term and contains a lot of different things. In some senses it's just an imaginative ...
QUACKCAST 528 - How tall are your characters?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 27, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Character height is not something we think about too much but it's actually a fairly big deal: in terms of what the height means, what it ...
QUACKCAST 526 - A return to Mary Sue!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 13, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Mary Sues are always a fun topic!
There are some misconceptions about them though… Mary Sues aren't all female, they can be any gender. Being super ...