I went to a café Sunday afternoon and spent my time doing something I have not been able to do in months–sat down and sketched. The last time I felt like drawing in a public space involved my oversized sketchbook, a few reference magazines, drafting mechanical pencils, and rubber ...
Digital Sketching in a Café with a Tablet in My Hand
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 2, 2014QUACKCAST 160 - SciFi spectacular
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 1, 2014
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While out on a routine survey mission in the Asimov Nebula, space-Captain Ozone and security officer second class Stanley Banes find themselves face to face with a drunken rampaging mutated alien duckmonster! Join our spacefaring heroes as they ramble about some of their favourite SciFi and discuss some ...
Underdogs, Underserved, and Underrated Comics: An Interview with Locoma of Anti Featured!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 31, 2014
Last week I was able to chat with lifetime DrunkDuck member Locoma about his process in selecting comics for his Anti-Featured comic. As a fellow featured comic reviewer and fan of underdog comics, I had a lot of curiosity going into the interview about the underground feature reviewer. Plenty of ...
QUACKCAST Episode 128 - Ozone and Banes Print Comic origins
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 4, 2013 LISTEN!
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Like Quackcast 127, 128 is about early print comic influences, except this time it's the influences of Banes and Ozoneocean. We have a good long chat together about some of the old print comics that had the biggest influences on us in our early days of comic ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Handsome and Ransom
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 29, 2013
“Handsome” Chris Sly and Ransom Lee Givens are two henchmen for hire. That is, supervillains phone up the henchmen agency and Handsome and Ransom are then assigned to some megalomaniacal fellow bent on doing naughty things. Being a henchman is hard work, you have to face off against vicious hero ...
Quackcast Episode 86 - Ghosts of Features Past
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 17, 2012LISTEN!
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Our idea was to revisit some of the interesting featured comics from the past years… We picked features that appeal to us and that are still on the site, commenting about what we like and don't like about the art, writing, design, style of humour, type of ...
QUACKCAST Episode 71 - Institutionalised superheros, screenwriting part 4
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 3, 2012LISTEN!
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This is the 4th and last of Banes' screenwriting tutorials. We round up here with the final two story genres; “Superhero” and “Institutionalised”, rounded out with some more useful time and tricks on writing in general! This series has been part of the Quackcast screenwriting month, beginning with ...
QUACKCAST Episode 70 - The love between two buddies, Screenwriting part 3
Ozoneocean at 1:14AM, March 27, 2012LISTEN!
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In the 3rd part of our 4 part focus on the art of story and screenwriting we have a look at some more interesting and popular story genres; Buddy Love, Fool Triumphant, and Whydunnit! We learn further tricks of the trade and gain more insights into the secret ...
QUACKCAST Episode 69 - Dude with a problem, screenwriting part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 20, 2012LISTEN!
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DUDE… where's my problem? In this truly excellent number sixty nine Quackcast we get to the second part of our exploration of screenwriting techniques. We quickly recap on last weeks story structure outline and genres and then move on to talking about three NEW genres: Out of ...
QUACKCAST Episode 68 - Save the cat for the screenwriting
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 13, 2012LISTEN!
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This marks the beginning of our story writing month! We're focusing exclusively and intensively on the art of writing, following on naturally from Kroatz's clever take on the concept of the monomyth. Bane's special interest and expertise is in scriptwriting, particularly movie screenwriting, so this ...