Quackcast 676 - Baby it's cold outside, cultural context

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 27, 2024

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Oh baby it's cold outside… That's a tricky song, well it's not really but a few years ago the silly pop-culture warriors on Twitter started acting as if the song was all “rapey” with ...


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The Comedy Villain

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 18, 2024



A fun type of character is the Comedy Villain. This is not a comic relief character in a more serious story; this is the Villain in a Comedic story or series. Actually, they MIGHT be the funniest character - but we'll get to that in a bit.

The legendary comedy ...



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Quackcast 652 - Physical traits that set characters apart

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2023

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Our topic this week is making your characters individual, distinct and setting them apart through physical traits. In many mainstream superhero comics or manga the only difference between most characters is their outfit, hair, and skin tone ...


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Imitation and The Content Avalanche Ahead?

Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 31, 2023



During the filming of Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock was unable to be on set one day. His crew filmed the scene for that day (I believe it was where Arbogast, the detective, goes up the stairs where he encounters Mrs. Bates). Hitchcock saw the footage, and said he had to reshoot ...

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Are You a Presenter or a Judge? Volunteer for the DD Awards!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 14, 2023


Photo: “Call for Artists (for the DD Awards)”. Judges and presenters needed. (August 2023)

2023 Drunk Duck Awards 2.0

There is a need for ten presenters for this year's awards. Five of the ten presentations can be started as soon as possible, the other five are still being ...




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Meet the Found Family

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 14, 2023



Last year (har har har obligatory New Year's Joke done) I'd started talking about Found Family, one of my favorite tropes in pretty much any narrative work, from movies to novels to comics and webcomics. Found family is when a bunch of characters, usually unrelated and mismatched, end ...

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Nostalgic inspiration

Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Jan. 7, 2023



I’ve been taking a break from drawing for a few months now, particularly as 2022 was coming to an end and I was really feeling the strain. I fell out of the habit of drawing however I am feeling the itch to go back and resume it. Despite the ...

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Meet the Hero in Stasis

Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 22, 2022


Tony Stark is glib, arrogant, and a war profiteer. And the perfect Protagonist.

I don't believe stories should be written strictly according to formulas - but writing according to structures that have been established can be helpful to a script when needed.

With that disclaimer out of the way, let ...




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The Horror Newspaper Revelation Scene

Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 18, 2022



There's a standard scene, particularly in a certain kind of horror movie, where the Protagonist or another character finds a room, or a book, full of newspaper clippings. The villain of the movie has clipped out a scrapbook or wall filled with a record of their evil doings.

It ...



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DD update post 09/JULY/2022

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 8, 2022
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Latest update news

Sorry this post was so late. I had reasons.

-First up
Alexey has updated the prototype template to hold both main and mobile pages here:
https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/index.html


-Second up
I was finally able to get money out of the Anthology and I went ...











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