This newspost was inspired by this week's Quackcast on testing your writing and knowing your characters. In the comments, KimLuster posted a Mary Sue test and discussed her annoyance in finding that one of her characters scored highly.
So what is a Mary Sue? Everyone sort of knows one ...

Avoiding the Mary Sue (+ a contest!)
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 6, 2015Adaptations
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2014
In recent years Hollywood has been desperately mining already popular material in the hopes of producing ready-made hits, so we've had a great bonanza of classic Scifi, fantasy and comic book films blasting onto the silver screen with the likes of The Lord of The Rings, The Chronicles of ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Words with Abby and Lydia
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 19, 2014
Summary:
Words with Abby and Lydia is a side project by the brilliant author of “Masked” (check it out! http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Masked/). It's a three panel weekly strip that features the two titular ladies, Abby and Lydia, giving us comical descriptions of words in alphabetical order, starting ...
Week 3 of the Halloween 2014 Masquerade Mash: An Original Comic Character and Costume Challenge!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 20, 2014Can YOU Guess the Drunk Duck Comic Character and Original Costume?
All you need to do is:
1) Identify the character and comic of the above image
2) State the name of the comic origin of the Halloween costume.
3) PQ/email kawaiidaigakusei the correct answers for your chance to ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Inner Turmoil in Comics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Oct. 17, 2014
Comics are a great medium for action-heavy stories, but showing inner conflict without massive walls of text can be difficult. The other day I picked up a very disappointing graphic novel version of “Frankenstein” - it read like an illustrated summary of the book, not reflecting any of the angst and ...
Quackcast 184 - The Trevor Mueller Hour
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 16, 2014 LISTEN!
- Art from Albert The Alien
Content:
Trevor A Meuller, author of many astounding comics including Albert The Alien, @$$hole and Temple of a Thousand Tears came on to tell us about some of the different projects he's working. Banes and I were highly impressed by his professional approach ...
Video Interviews with KAM, Toshubi, and Magical Misfits!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 8, 2014
Today we have a special video interview newspost featuring KAM, Toshubi, and Magical Misfits. They each have long running comics with pretty substantial archives and have been members on Drunk Duck from the very start. They each are natural storytellers and are very passionate about the work they produce on ...
FEATURED COMIC --> All Unicorns to Battle Stations
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 3, 2014
From the same creator who brought you the previously featured and ever so popular Playmobil photocomic, Character Development, comes an endearing new story about real life as it happens. All Unicorns to Battle Stations is a personal autobiographical comic from the first person point-of-view of one of our favourite New ...
Drawing One-Point Perspective for Comic Backgrounds
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 1, 2014
I may not be the authority on drawing backgrounds in comics. However, I did spend about two years taking several classes centered around perspective drawing so I do know a little bit more than the average bear. The idea that I have is this, as comic makers, we enjoy telling ...