I'm a bit of a comic book proselytizer. When people tell me they don't like comics, I usually take that as a personal challenge. (I have the same reaction when people tell me they don't like cats, but that's another story for another time.) Generally I ...
Comics for Anti-Comic People
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 20, 2015QUACKCAST 206 - Turning An Idea Into A Comic
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 17, 2015 LISTEN!
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Back in January our own HippieVan was in a quandary as to how to turn a creative idea she had into a webcomic, so she decided to put it o the DD community and croudsource their wisdom via a newspost. Banes and I thought the ...
Love Triangles
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 13, 2015
I hope that all you lovely DDers are celebrating this Valentine's Day in happy, stable relationships - or happy, stable singledom! As for me, I love a good (fictional) love triangle. What's the point of a love story if it's not unnecessarily complicated, right? Here are some of ...
The 2015 Drunk Duck Valentine's Day Card Exchange Extravaganza!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 9, 2015Traditional Art in Webcomics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2015
We've talked a few times in newsposts and Quackcasts about how tablets have made digital art more convenient than ever. But as much as I enjoy the clean lines and bright colours of digital drawing, when inspiration strikes I still often find myself reaching for my sketchbook and ProMarkers ...
Conveying sarcasm
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Jan. 30, 2015
I spotted a forum thread yesterday on this topic, and I thought some of you might have some interesting input - how do you convey sarcasm in a comic?
From irrevenant:
“In normal life sarcasm is conveyed by tone of voice which obviously isn't available in a comic.
There are ...
Turning an Idea into a Comic
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Jan. 23, 2015
I was sitting in a boring Canadian politics lecture the other day (I'm not sure what else I expected from that class, really…) when inspiration struck - a comic idea! Unfortunately it's the first good idea I've had since approximately 2008, and I'm a few years removed ...
2015 Radio Play - Call for Scripts!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Jan. 9, 2015
As I mentioned in last week’s newspost, we’re in the beginning stages of doing this year’s radio play. The first step will be to choose a script (or two)! Here are Kroatz’ rules for scripts.
RADIOPLAY CREATION AND SELECTION RULES
Here's what we're going to ...
QUACKCAST 200 - DD community 2014 year in revue
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 6, 2015 LISTEN!
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OMG this is our 200th Quackcast! It's also the very first Quackcast of 2015! In this DD webcomics community podcast we invited people to tell us about some of the awesome, terrible and interesting things that happened to them in 2014, and tell us they did! Some ...