classic tale of cause and effect!
Our very own Pickle-Face made a forum topic on the Duck, asking people to create a basic ‘cause and effect’ statement on their comic.
The structure goes something like this: Say what happens, and then what the effect is in the story. This is ...
Etz Chaim He - Inside Jokes
Banes at 12:00AM, March 12, 2020
Webcomics don't need to follow rules.
They are often created by one person and don't need to answer to editors, publishers or money-type-people. They can be made by just you, and can be made for an audience of just a couple friends or relatives…or just for yourself ...
Believing the Unbelievable
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 13, 2020The suspension of disbelief happens automatically in readers and audiences if a story does its job.
Audiences WANT to believe in a story when they start reading or watching it.
I mean, you can' t count on everyone. I remember going to see the Benjamin Button movie and my friend ...
MacGuffins
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 16, 2020
MacGuffin comin' through!
MacGuffins
I'm not sure if everyone knows this already, but a MacGuffin is a term that was made popular by Alfred Hitchcock, and is now widely used in writing and storytelling circles.
It is an item or event (or possibly even a character) that exists only ...
Time Passages
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 26, 2019As another year draws to a close, I'm once again thinking about how much time is flying by, more and more quickly the older I get.
Weeks whiz by like mad these days, and how quickly we've reached the end of the year reminds me that YEARS are ...
Cupid is as Cupid Does - Romance
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 14, 2019
Romance
I don't know much about the Romance Genre. I've never read a romance novel. Not that I recall, anyway.
Of course, I've seen a fair number of romance-focussed movies, and have consumed HUNDREDS of stories with a love subplot. Love is still the most common subplot ...
QUACKCAST 409 - Meaning, Intention, and symbolism
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 15, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/
*The topic we discussed in this Quackcast was looking for symbolism, meaning and intention in comics: The English literature approach! Deeper meanings and all that. It's ...
Before the Beginning
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 27, 2018
One of the great things about the original Star Wars movies was the strong sense of a grand, adventurous, and terrible history before the movie started. So much is hinted at through Obi Wan Kenobi about the Jedi Knights, Anakin Skywalker, great friendships, laser swords, and terrible war and loss ...
Quackast 390 - Imprinting on your characters
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 4, 2018 LISTEN!
We nicked the idea for this Quackcast from a newspost by Emma Clare. What we chat about is the unintentional process of giving your characters you own traits or even traits of people you know without realising it: Every time you draw an expression for your character you're ...