We Are The Duck Comic Jam, and Top Ten News!

HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 20, 2016



Irrevenant is looking for volunteers for the next Comic Jam for We Are The Duck!

From irrevenant:
“A comic jam is a process where artists collaborate on creating a single comic. There is no script, and the content of the comics is improvised based solely on what happened in the ...




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Why do my characters all speak the same way? (Guest Post by Gunwallace)

HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 15, 2016



Rather than write about something I'm good at I thought I write about something I'm struggling with, and my attempts to resolve it. Writing characters with distinct voices.

Comics are usually conversations between characters. Speech bubbles are the preferred way to tell comic stories, as opposed to large ...



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Healing through Art

HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 8, 2016


Some very calming public art in my city - The Leo Mol sculpture garden.

As part of my degree, I’ve spent the last several months interning at an art gallery to learn hands-on curatorial skills. This particular gallery is fairly unique, because it’s actually located inside of a hospital ...


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International Women’s Day in Webcomics

HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 11, 2016


A lovely illustration from The Pirate Balthasar.

Initially, I had planned this week’s newspost to feature a selection of my favourite women characters on DD. But I realized as I was composing my list for this newspost that I was essentially just making a list of protagonists from my ...


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Quackcast 258 - Gunwallace music special

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 16, 2016

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We have a special treat this time! Gunwallace is our guest and he's brought with him 15 of his fave tracks that he created as themes for DD webcomics. For two years Gunwallace has been creating fantastic musical themes for webcomics, the total is now over 90! He ...

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FEATURED CREATOR SPOTLIGHT -> ashtree house

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 15, 2016



Ashtree house hails from the Great White North as one of Drunk Duck's Canadian ducks. She is best known on the site for creating the webcomic Steel and Manitou, which was featured nearly one year ago on February 18, 2015. Steel and Manitou tells the tale of a young ...

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Quackcast 256 - Using and creating weapons in fiction

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 2, 2016

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Tantz Aerine, Banes and Ozoneocean discuss the topic of using and creating weapons in fiction and some of the pitfalls involved- all the things you can easily do wrong and do better! Stuff like using overly specialised weapons in too general a role, like giant swords where they'd ...

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Webcomics and Update Schedules

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Jan. 29, 2016



Somewhere between “all the time” and “hardly ever” lies an ideal update schedule.

I’ve read several times that frequent content updates is one of the best ways to increase traffic to whatever it is you’re creating online, but of course both your audience and yourself need to be ...



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DD 54 Card Pick Up

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Jan. 8, 2016



I wanted to draw everyone's attention this week to Call Me Tom's new community project! It's a pretty simple, but really fun idea - we're creating our own deck of cards using our comic characters.

A little less than half of the slots are still open, including ...



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