Before You Save That Cat, all Willy Nilly...

Banes at 12:00AM, April 6, 2023



Since I first read it, the book “Save The Cat!” has been incredibly useful to me as far as thinking about stories, outlining them, and finishing them. It's a fun way to approach structure, and applies to a LOT of mainstream stories.

It's become an essential textbook in ...



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Planning for the 2023 Drunk Duck Awards is Underway

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 3, 2023


Photo: “Casual Group Photo (Right Side)”. 2022 Drunk Duck Awards Community Project. (2022)

Niccea has spoken—The planning for the 2023 Drunk Duck Awards began last Friday, March 31, 2023. The two categories currently accepting volunteer sign-ups and art submissions in April 2023: Planning Committee and For Your Consideration (FYC ...


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Quackcast 628 - Cover me!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 28, 2023

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We're talking about the importance of a good cover in this cast. Another technical comicscast! I love making coves, they're one of my fave things ...



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Folktale Parodies

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 27, 2023


Photo: “The Stinky Cheese Man and the Fox”. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. By Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. (1992)

Any the book that was ever available at silent reading was always a book that the teacher read aloud to the class. The Stinky Cheese Man ...


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Quackcast 627 - Character consistency and speech bubbles!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 21, 2023

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Today its another technical comics making focused cast, suggested by Tantz Aerine! We cover our notions about how to maintain character consistency and consistency in general, plus ...



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Being Inclusive vs. Being Authentic

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 18, 2023




So for some reason my youtube is being besieged by rant videos over The Little Mermaid live action movie by Disney… AGAIN. You'd think the algorithm would know by now that I only watch ER skits and debunking videos, but here we are.

The controversy (again) is over the ...




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DD update post 3rd of March

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 3, 2023
tags: DD, update


Site redesign update, NEWS!

Alexey will now begin to tackle comic page templates, making them conform to the new style. Em has come up with two templates for us to start to work with (compact and standard size). These will be the standard default, unedited templates, but they will also ...


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Quackcast 624 - Comic panel creation

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 28, 2023

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HPKomic is a great guy, he's been on DD since almost the beginning. He alternates the Friday newsposts with me, he focusses on the intricacies of ...



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Panel By Panel: Let Me Ask You Something

hpkomic at 12:53PM, Feb. 24, 2023



Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I wanted to try something different. I'd like to ask you all some questions. I have plenty more panel analysis articles, but I also want to mix things up.

I ...



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Prose v Comics

Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 23, 2023



When I first started putting together my story idea for Typical Strange many years ago, I imagined it to be an animated series. With a lot of time and effort and learning Toon Boom software along the way, I had a pretty strong idea of the main characters, and a ...

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