August is coming to an end which means the deadline for the DrunkDuck Horror Anthology of 2020 is fast approaching. When building a house it’s good to get the foundations down; for comics that means creating your outline. This applies to any story regardless of length. As you're ...
Assembling your outline
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Aug. 21, 2020Playing Through Life is Strange 2
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 4, 2020
As we embark on the start of week eight in quarantine, I wonder how many people out here in Drunk Duck Land have begun learning new facts about our planet (Interesting aside: Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first two explorers to reach the deepest part of the Ocean ...
Webcomics and Genre
Banes at 12:00AM, April 2, 2020The idea of genre is somewhat obvious, and somewhat murky. It can be rigid for some fans, and irrelevant to others.
I was reading some thoughts from readers of various niches that were very particular about what belongs in them and what doesn't. There were some complaints there about ...
Angels of the Fallen Reaches One Year Milestone!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 30, 2019
https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Angels_of_the_Fallen/
Angels of the Fallen by Busty Laroo is celebrating its one year of updates today, October 1st.
BustyLaroo writes: “I'm super excited about this because it's the first time in my life that I've worked this consistently for this long.”
Congratulations, BustyLaroo ...
Characters falling flat
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Aug. 23, 2019
The lifeblood of your comic is the characters in it. They offer a way for the audience to be invested in the world and contextualise any conflicts that will inevitably occur. So it is important that the characters don’t come across as flat. A flat character is one dimensional ...
Raytoon’s Quack Attack CCG RPG Game Available for Sale
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 22, 2019
Raytoons has created a board game that you can own. He writes:
In this turn-based strategy card game from Raytoons Comics, each player must form their own team of characters (from the Quackup comic book series) and must defeat other players through mini-game missions and battles! Game missions and conflicts ...
It's All You
Banes at 12:00AM, March 28, 2019
You
Creating something new is daunting. Where do you start? I know if I'm putting something together, at some point I get anxious about how it will be received by people who read it. Will it make any sense? Is it good enough? Is it just terrible? Irrelevant? Boring ...
Writing Mental Illness (Part 1)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 12, 2019
Writing a character with mental illness can be a very tricky thing. Writers usually go for the extremely rare, exotic and spectacular: multiple personality disorders, extreme manifestations of psychopathy or sociopathy, high functioning autism with that ever alluring ‘savant’ magic going for the character, bombastically spectacular schizophrenia… in many ways ...
Casting Characters in Comics - Larger casts, personality and temperament
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 9, 2018
Last week there was a post about smaller regular casts in a series - The Loner series, the Duo, and the Trio. Here's that post:
https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/aug/01/casting-characters-in-comics-123/
With a larger cast, things start to get more complicated - but with more possibilities for different ...
Comedy Plots
Banes at 12:00AM, May 4, 2017Howdy!
I was going to go over the structure of a comedy story, based on the fine book “The Comic Toolbox” by Jason Voorhees.
If you have the interest, I can go into the structure outlined by Jason; he lays out a few different options that you may find useful ...