I'm not sure where I first heard of Li'l Abner. Maybe some bits and pieces in a Comic Review Magazine or something.
The Shmoo was a character on the old Flintstones cartoons I used to watch, and Lena Hyena had shown up on the movie Who Framed Roger ...

QUACKCAST 260 - D.U.C.K. Radio1
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 1, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Welcome to D.U.C.K. Radio! Get ready for your DJs: Smooth Ramone, Hard rock Jimmy Storm (BRINING THE THUNDER!!!), Weatherman Rhet Blanket, Conspiracy theorist Smiley Fraudson, and hilarious* Maple and The Syrup (*they're not funny). This is the first part of Radio DUCK ...
Black History Month spotlight: The first black superheroine
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 26, 2016
In 1971, five years after in creation of Black Panther and four years before Marvel introduced Storm, the first black female superhero appeared in Hell-Rider #1.
A trained fighter, Butterfly’s super cool costume included a jetpack, suction cups for climbing, and lights that were capable of permanently blinding her ...
Quackcast 259 - Drawing Crowd Scenes
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 23, 2016 LISTEN!
Pic by Ozoneocean
Crowd scenes of any sort can be horrible to draw. There are many, many reasons for this, one of them is that it's quite boring to invent a whole lot of new character models just for the purpose of making a group scene. My own ...
FEATURED COMIC --> The weird adventures of Armless Amy
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 17, 2016
Little Amy is the cutest and sweetest little girl in the post-apocalypse. Of course, her adorable personality seems to attract the strangest of characters from a top hat wearing stranger, happy dolls, white rabbits, Sherry the living doll, Eloise, and Eustace.
This is a mature comic because it deviates from ...
Quackcast 258 - Gunwallace music special
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 16, 2016 LISTEN!
We have a special treat this time! Gunwallace is our guest and he's brought with him 15 of his fave tracks that he created as themes for DD webcomics. For two years Gunwallace has been creating fantastic musical themes for webcomics, the total is now over 90! He ...
Allegory
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 11, 2016
-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 ...
Quackcast 257 - Accents in Comics
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 9, 2016 LISTEN!
Using accents and different languages in comics can be a challenge, or at least a challenge to represent. Some people will actually have their text IN a different language or even a made up language in the case of aliens, and they'll have translations in a footnote. Some ...
C O M I C S
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 8, 2016
There are days that challenge me. There are days that mould me. There are days that have a significant impact on my day-to-day grind. Last Wednesday was one of those days.
In addition to my duties as a webcomic blogger, I have been juggling several other “offline” jobs that are ...