-a famous Star Trek episode that was an anvil-on-the-head racism allegory
ALLEGORY
Back in October, I took a little stab, if you will, at separating horror into various categories. Here's the link to that article:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2015/oct/07/things-that-go-duck-in-the-night/
What I didn't have ...
Allegory
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 11, 2016Breaks and Hiatuses
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Jan. 22, 2016
Hiatuses are a necessary evil in the webcomics world, it seems. Most webcomic artists can’t devote all their attention to their comic, and will at some point find that life – school, work, or family – gets in the way of regular updates.
In terms of maintaining readership, it’s best ...
Accents, dialects, and different languages in comics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Jan. 15, 2016
Accents, patterns of speech and the like can be a useful tool in introducing characters. In a film or tv show, a character's accent can immediately reveal the character's nationality or social background. And of course, we've all been conditioned by Hollywood movies to identify the bad ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Two Hearts
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 9, 2015
One evening, during a town gathering centered around a glowing tree of light, a mysterious cloaked stranger shows up and removes all the light from the tree before fleeing. The switch to darkness unleashes grim shadow monsters to chase after the townspeople and sends the blue-skin toned community into distress ...
Quackcast 247 - FONTS and LETTERING
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 1, 2015 LISTEN!
This week we have VIDEO of the Quackcast again - a nice condensed 10 minute version. Quackcast 247 is all about what fonts to use for your webcomic, hand lettering, aligning fonts, likes and dislikes, where to find good fonts, what sorts of things to look out for and what ...
Collaborations
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 28, 2015
I recently watched a concert of Ed Sheeran singing “Thinking Out Loud” when the camera panned to the person playing the piano and it turned out to be Chris Martin from Coldplay and the song finished with a duet. I sat there thinking, “Wow, that really worked.” Collaborating with another ...
Take On Three Unordinary Experiences Every Day
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 21, 2015
Change is difficult. Decisions are made out of comfort and convenience because staying the same is safer. Anything that strays off the beaten path has a tendency to seem foreign. It feels like a strange sensation that makes the squishy parts of the brain uncomfortable.
In a way, I am ...
"What are you, 5 years old?"
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 20, 2015
The act of sharing artwork online was still a new concept around 2004. Before I joined Drunk Duck, I thought it would be a cool idea to share some of my daily sketches from my first high school art class with the Internet. My initial reasoning was that I could ...
QUACKCAST 211 - How Mary Sure Are You?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 24, 2015 LISTEN!
Image by VinoMas
Content:
Hello hello hello! This week Ozoneocean and Banes pirate another of HippieVan's much discussed newsposts. When the test for Mary Sue was brought up in our recent writing tests Quackcast it generated some heated talk so HippieVan went a little deeper into it and ...