After playing the polarizing role of Joker in the film, Joker, Joaquin Phoenix has just won the Golden Globe for best actor in a drama. This awards season has been awarding Phoenix for his role making this awards season rather off-kilter. Phoenix played Arthur Fleck, the troubled stand up comic ...
The Joker Sets Comic Book Movie Record at the Golden Globes
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 6, 2020Convergent Creation Part 2
Amelius at 12:21PM, Dec. 16, 2018
Last weekend we discussed that strange phenomenon of independent creation, where there's more than a passing resemblance to another work but it's not a case of plagiarism. Interestingly, not long after I posted that I saw not one but two instances of independent creation being brought up (though ...
Enter stage left - Introducing new characters
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Aug. 24, 2018
Last week, we looked at killing off characters. So it seems only fitting to follow it up by talking about introducing new characters into your story! This is your quick cheat sheet to helping ease your readers into getting to know the new players in your world.
Try to introduce ...
Announcing the 2018 Drunk Duck Award Finalists!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 13, 2018
The nominees have been announced and current volunteers have been given assignments.
We still need more volunteers. There are 12 unclaimed presentations and 25 judging slots still left over.
2018 Finalists: Genre/Style Awards
My Life as An American Hero 2
Kitty Kitty Bang Bang
Mindfold
Steel & Manitou
Jay’s ...
Quackcast 378 - Your best work, Comicsgate, Mark Wade, Tantz comic spotlight, Twitter
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 12, 2018 LISTEN!
We have community contributions for this Quackcast! Many DDers told us about their best work and we read that out and chat about in on the Quackcast. We talking about promoting comics through DD's Twitter account. The DD awards have begun, get in on them and get nominated ...
The Javert Effect
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 26, 2018
Javert is such a stellar and powerful character in Les Miserables that he has his very own trope.
He's the skilled, dogged, unwavering locomotive of a chaser that in the name of the law, the church, the state, the cause pursues and persecutes the hero of a story, and ...
Drunk Duck Awards FAQs
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 7, 2018The Drunk Duck Awards have technically been running since 2007 when it was pretty bare bones and 2008 was the first year that had award winner presentations. The awards have been run by various members of the community, with Niccea taking the awards under her wing for the large majority ...
A new coat of paint - The DD website design update!
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Jan. 12, 2018
Last year, our glorious leader Oz suggested that the site needed a fresh, new coat of paint to bring the community forward in the webcomic sphere. As a way to usher in a brand new year for the DrunkDuck community, we unveiled the new look for the website over at ...
The Main Character Decoy
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 25, 2017
One reason why the movie Psycho is so iconic is, aside the expert directing and artistic cinematography, the fact that the one we’re led to believe is the main character of the movie gets brutally killed in the shower quite early into the movie.
What did killing her off ...