You have your story, your characters, your outline is looking schmick and you have a good buffer under your belt. Now what do you call all of it? Today I have some tips on how you can come up with the perfect name!
Know your genre
If you’re mentioning ...
Insert title here (tips for titling your comic)
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Sept. 11, 2020Character Design Brainstorm: The Man (or Woman) of the Cloth
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 29, 2020
There are many tropes and many archetypes that we use for character designs. I had a couple of years go (have I really been at it this long!?) done a series of articles on the standard character type/functionality archetypes.
I'm thinking it's high time to explore archetypes ...
QUACKCAST 492 - Impermanence of the new digital age
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 18, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/adarunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/
This Quackcast is about the impermanence of online services and the lie that services are provided for fee and providers have no responsibility to the creators and ...
VOTING on the DD ANTHOLOGY Style!
Ozoneocean at 2:30AM, July 26, 2020
Hi everyone! We’re interrupting your regular programming to talk about the upcoming Drunk Duck anthology!
Firstly: voting on the anthology theme is open to all Duck users. The admins have narrowed it down to five, and you can vote by following this link https://strawpoll.com/hqdh2g81c, and voting ...
Reflection Characters
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 2, 2020
Reflection Characters
When I was doing a little reading on the “Mentor” character type, I learned about something called “Reflection Characters”. It was an eye opener; I'd never heard of this before, though I could instantly see how it made sense in storytelling, and dozens of examples came to ...
QUACKCAST 456 - Smackdown on Quackjeeves
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 10, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/
Smack Jeeves has been sold out from under its community to a Korean mobile content provider company NHN. The same company approached us last year but the ...
Working with Political Agendas
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 15, 2019
Lately more and more comics and animated features seem to consciously, and more importantly loudly, incorporate political messages in their stories. From feminism to social stratification and discrimination, to racism and xenophobia or even depression and psychological trauma.
This is by no means a new thing, to incorporate themes and ...
The Thing With Clichés
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 8, 2019
There is a general idea that cliches, when they surface in the narrative of a story, be it movie, tv or webcomics or anything else, is a sign of bad writing.
There is of course a good basis for this presumption, because usually a cliche is a plot device, or ...