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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 ...
Comedy Plots
Banes at 12:00AM, May 4, 2017Quackcast 320 - Making the reader believe
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 25, 2017 LISTEN!
In this Quackcast I wanted to talk about the magic of authorship: how the creator of a story sets up the whole situation so that they can convince the reader of anything. You can write a story about the smartest man in the world, and the reader will believe ...
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 ...
FEATURED CREATOR SPOTLIGHT -> usedbooks
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 14, 2016
Usedbooks has been a member of the Drunk Duck community since early 2007, which means she has been sharing, contributing, and participating in this site for the last nine years! She has always been a creative addition to many community projects on the site such as the original Comic Remix ...
Quackcast 259 - Drawing Crowd Scenes
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 23, 2016 LISTEN!
Pic by Ozoneocean
Crowd scenes of any sort can be horrible to draw. There are many, many reasons for this, one of them is that it's quite boring to invent a whole lot of new character models just for the purpose of making a group scene. My own ...
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 ...
Used Books Celebrates 7 Years on Drunk Duck, Project GTH Reaches 675 Pages!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 24, 2014
The ever-evolving, always mysterious, and very inspiring Used Books webcomic turned seven years old yesterday. The early days of the comic were largely influenced by mystery stories including Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie novels, Lupin III, Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed) and Vickie's (the creator) closest friends. What ...
QUACKCAST Episode 130 - The art of comicbook movies
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 25, 2013 LISTEN!
Summary:
Banes and I talk about some of our fave comic book movies! That is, comics that have made the creative transition to the medium of film. We missed out a LOT but what can you do? It's a popular field. We discuss many modern superhero comicbook films ...