I have made comics’ storylines both ways- flying by the seat of my pants and meticulously scripting everything. So I feel I’m in a position to say that while both methods are valid and extremely fun, the latter one has one advantage over the former: it can make the ...
How the Dominoes Fall - Tragedy
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 7, 2017Diminishing Returns
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 28, 2017
Emotional Charges and Diminishing Returns
Many writing methodologies suggest mapping out the emotional change of each scene. The scene either starts positive, and goes to either negative or “extra positive”, or starts negative and goes to positive or “extra negative” by the end of the scene.
So if a lovelorn ...
QUACKCAST 337 - Interview with AmeliaP of Kings Club
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2017 LISTEN!
This week we interview the artist and creator of the comic Kings Club, AmeliaP! Her comic was featured and Gunwallace also gave it a theme tune that was featured in Quackcast 335. AmeliaP is a talented professional comic creator and game designer. We couldn't interview her directly because ...
WRITING A SCENE
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 3, 2017WRITING A SCENE
Here are some thoughts on writing that smallest unit of a story: the scene.
First off, what is a scene? What defines that little mug?
It's Change.
Something changes between the beginning and end of a scene.
Here's a way to write one if you ...
Researching Your Fantasy World
Tantz_Aerine at 5:42AM, July 29, 2017
Goodness, I'm so late posting this, my apologies…
So you have answered your main worldbuilding question, you’ve gone ahead and created your rigging and you’re all set! Now you get to research for your world- you are about to sink your teeth in the juicy, succulent meat ...
Quackcast 330 - A feature on features!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 4, 2017 LISTEN!
Following on from my newspost about features last week, now we have a whole Quackcast on the subject, tell you what features are and how we do them at DD.
Refer to the links bellow to learn about how to get a feature. In this Quackcast Banes and Pitface ...
Quackcast 328 - How to get people to read your comic!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 20, 2017 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Today we're going to chat about how you go about getting more readers on Drunk Duck for your webcomic! Hyena hell did an amazing newspost about it for us, outlining all the ways you can increase your audience here on DD in her fantastic, colourful ...
READ MY COMIC DAMN IT! (A "how to" guide)
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, June 16, 2017
Well hell, long time no see huh? I'd like to say I'm back from my, er, break all rejuvenated and refreshed and what have ya but honestly it's damn near midnight and I'm running on three hours of sleep that I managed to eek out on ...