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This week we interview the artist and creator of the comic Kings Club, AmeliaP! Her comic was featured and Gunwallace also gave it a theme tune that was featured in Quackcast 335. AmeliaP is a talented professional comic creator and game designer. We couldn't interview her directly because ...
QUACKCAST 337 - Interview with AmeliaP of Kings Club
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2017QUACKCAST 336 - Side romance
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 22, 2017 LISTEN!
Romances don't always have to be the main focus of a story, infact you can have richer, more interesting romances if they occur in support of a bigger plot issue. It can lend them and the story more weight if they're in a secondary position. Characters can ...
Romance As a Side Dish
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 19, 2017
The other day I read a very interesting post by our very own Vickie of Used Books where she was talking about Romance. And what caught my eye the most was her description of the driving force behind romance stories as “relationship-driven conflict”- a very succinct way to put it ...
The Murky Middle
Banes at 12:00AM, July 27, 2017Thursdays with Banes - The Murky Middle
A good way to put together a story is to figure out some essentials, first - Elements of Character, Plot and Theme, and Building some World and all that. We've talked about these things around here a lot, and we'll prolly continue to ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Sword of Kings
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 26, 2017
Fierce battles with sword, spear, bow and hammer, vicious Norsemen, hungry ghouls, scheming sorceresses and nobles … Sword of Kings is an epic saga of ambition, conquest, and love. Written, constructed and directed by Bravo1102, this is a whole new take on his original story “Go a Viking”. It's still ...
Reflecting on Reflection Characters
Banes at 12:00AM, July 20, 2017
Reflection Characters
When I was doing a little reading on the “Mentor” character type, I learned about something called “Reflection Characters”. It was an eye opener; I'd never heard of this before, though I could instantly see how it made sense in storytelling, and dozens of examples came to ...
Where's Chuck?
Banes at 12:00AM, July 13, 2017
Where's Chuck? - Retcons
Hello again!
On the previous Quackcast we talked about retcons - here's that episode if you care to listen:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/jul/08/quackcast-331-retconning-your-work/
A retcon is a little tricky to define perfectly, but I guess it boils down to an alteration ...
Quackcast 329 - Character Archetypes, the Jung ones!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 27, 2017 LISTEN!
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Welcome to the the yungle
Characters make or break a story. In this quackcast Tantz Aerine brings all her skills as a head-shrink to bear and gives us the low-down on Jungian character archetypes! Jung was a clever Swiss bloke, a contemporary of that strange fellow ...