Avoiding the Mary Sue (+ a contest!)

HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 6, 2015



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 ...



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Adaptations

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 ...

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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 ...


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FEATURED COMIC --> God's Revelation

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 5, 2014



Summary:
This is a type of comic and one from a class that we almost never feature: Spiritual. In God's Revelation, god takes on the form of a 13 year old boy, he explains to the audience how he controls the universe and then we move on to a ...


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Week 3 of the Halloween 2014 Masquerade Mash: An Original Comic Character and Costume Challenge!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 20, 2014

Can 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 ...




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FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Inner Turmoil in Comics

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Oct. 17, 2014
tags: haze, ink, inner, lucid, turmoil



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 ...

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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 ...




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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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