I have been helping with the featured comic section for the last five years. A while back, a comic creator on The Duck asked how a comic gets featured, and this was the explanation:
In order for a comic to get featured on The Duck, it must pass through a ...
How Does a Comic Get Featured Revisited
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 25, 2018Quackcast 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 ...
On Being Militant
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 9, 2018
Anyone that knows me even a little is aware that I have strong involvement in common affairs, activism and maintain strong political views. My comic also has a lot of social and political commentary woven into the story and I strive to make my case through my art, be it ...
The Sheet of Glass and Other Tropes
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, June 8, 2018
Tropes aren’t bad. In fact, they are a useful and, at times, necessary shorthand that creators, particularly in the webcomic field, can wield to enhance their work. J Hillis Miller posited a trope as, “… the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect.”
Every ...
Your Javert's Options
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 2, 2018
So last time we had talked about the Javert trope, a category of character that is very compelling and makes for excellent drama, immense suspense and often gets their own following in fandom. (Just check out Saito Hajime's hero's journey as a prime example.)
The Javert character is ...
For Your Consideration Pages Now Being Accepted Until the End of June!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 28, 2018
Niccea is now accepting For Your Consideration Pages. Please PQ or email them.
A couple of people that are new to the awards scene wanted some sample FYC pages.
Since the theme for the FYCs hasn't been done before I scrounged the archives of previous years FYCs and Extras ...
Being a Generous God - when they go against the divine plan
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, May 25, 2018
As creators, we believe that we are the gods of our stories. The tales we weave are of our construct and the characters are subject to our petty whims…at first. When we begin to craft our worlds and populate them with, what we hope, are well rounded characters, we ...
Quackcast 375 - Categories, genres and rants
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 22, 2018 LISTEN!
In this Quackcast we chat about the categorisation of work by specific genres and how it makes it easier to promote your work to people, while for fans it makes it easier to find what you're into, but it can also be a bad thing when people categorise ...