Image by Gunwallace, from Utterly Rucked, found here on the Utterly Drunk Duck!
Photocomics
My somewhat undisciplined, regularly wandering mind went, awhile back, to the possibility of doing photocomics instead of drawn ones.
Of course, my fanciful thoughts hit a wall after realizing the amount of WORK that goes into ...
PHOTOCOMICS
Banes at 12:00AM, March 9, 2017Quackcast 305 - Chekhov's phaser
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 10, 2017 LISTEN!
Chekhov's gun is the principal (as I understand it), that if you have some item, fact or piece of information introduced into your story that you draw specific attention to, then you'd better use it some how later on in your story. The simplest example is a ...
Quackcast 301 - Let it snow!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 13, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Banes and Pitface live in a parallel world to me where this time of year involves water falling from the sky in the form of fluffy white crystals. When it hits the ground it piles up on top of itself into huge white piles! Freaky, I ...
QUACKCAST 292 - Separating the art from the artists
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 11, 2016
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Ayn Rand and The Fountainhead movie poster
Separating the art from the artist, the message from the messenger… Can you do this?
You know, when you find out an actor, musician, comic artist or whatever is an arsehole or says things you disagree with or is a criminal, can ...
QUACKCAST 290 - Characters coming alive
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 27, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
The idea fr this Quackcast was inspired by a Korean TV series that Tantz Aerine recommended called “W” (http://myasiantv.se/drama/w/). The show is about a manga artist who does a super popular webcomic. He wants to quit doing it and has decided to ...
QUACKCAST 288 - Evoking too much Emotion
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 13, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Drunkduck's beloved HippieVan was influenced by last week's Quackcast on Evoking emotion to come up with a newspost about NOT invoking emotion when you don't mean to: keeping things funny, even IF heavy stuff happens to be going on, which can be tricky ...
QUACKCAST 284 - Writing Dialogue pt2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 16, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Well this is the SECOND part of our Quackcast on Dialogue! As with last week, this Quackcast is based on a thread in the DD forums discussing different approaches to creating Dialogue in webcomics. This time we have an additional guest though: the mighty Pitface joins ...
QUACKCAST 283 - Writing Dialogue pt1
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 9, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Dialogue is a key part of any comic, it pushes the story along, keys the reader in on things that would be otherwise ambiguous, hints and foreshadows at future happenings, creates humour… well, it's just a big part of comics, that's all! And that ...
Quackcast 270 - Historical Accuracy Vs Story Needs part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 10, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
We return to the topic of historical accuracy versus the needs the the story. This was Bravo's idea and we wanted to have him along but alas it was not to be! Tantz Aerine, Pitface, Banes and I discuss the topic, reading from a few ...