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Art by Ozoneocean
What makes the “meat” of a story? What makes you fall in love with it, keep coming back for more watches or reads or whatever? I contend it has nothing to do with conflict or culminations or climaxes, those are merely generic structural plottings that are ...

Quackcast 271 - Pitface’s tales of ribaldry
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 17, 2016The Great Electric Drunk Duck Meetup: Be There, or Be a Square!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 16, 2016
Word on the street is that there is going to be a world-wide Drunk Duck meet-up this Saturday, May 21st. This will be a chance for all users of Drunk Duck to mingle on Skype (https://www.skype.com/).
The first Electronic Drunk Duck Meetup is going to begin at ...
PLEASE READ: Bug Fixes and New Issues
HippieVan at 12:00AM, May 13, 2016We are in the process of implementing bug fixes right now! The following bugs have been fixed:
1. When pre-uploaded/queued comics go live on the set date they do not appear in the “recently updated” list, and sometimes have the wrong date.
3. Multiple page/bulk uploader sometimes ends ...
Quackcast 270 - Historical Accuracy Vs Story Needs part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 10, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
We return to the topic of historical accuracy versus the needs the the story. This was Bravo's idea and we wanted to have him along but alas it was not to be! Tantz Aerine, Pitface, Banes and I discuss the topic, reading from a few ...
A Love Affair with the Colour Gray
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 9, 2016
Jean Arp, "Untitled (College with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)". 1917
"In Europe and America, grey is the color most associated with boredom, solitude and emptiness. It is associated with rainy days and winter.“ -Wikipedia ”Grey: Boredom“
”Grey is my favorite color“ -Counting Crows ”Mr. Jones“
I ...
Quackcast 269 - Historical Accuracy VS Story Needs
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 3, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Never let historical accuracy get in the way of a good story… at least that's what Bravo proposes. We stole his thought provoking forum post subject for the topic of this Quackcast. This is how Bravo goes on to explain it:
“So how do feel ...
Are Friends Electric? (Guest post by Gunwallace)
HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 29, 2016
“Well, are they?”
Gary Numan (and Tubeway Army) posed that question in 1979. These days it has more relevance that ever before.
“It's cold outside, and the paint's peeling offa my walls.”
As winter approaches in the Southern Hemisphere (winter is coming) my thoughts naturally turn a little ...
Quackcast 268 - the antagonist-cast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 26, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
On the Quackcast we've talked about villains plenty of times before. This time it's very different though… I wanted people to talk about their OWN villains, to promote their comic as if the antagonist was the main character, to give their antagonists the time ...
It's time to make some TUTORIALS!
HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 22, 2016
So…how many of you know that DD has a tutorials section? If you’ve happened to hit that little button near the top of the page at any point, you probably found something more than a little embarrassing…
2013? Yikes.
Genejoke recently had the excellent idea that the tutorials ...
Quackcast 267 - The DD Community asks Banes
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 19, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
In Quackcast 266 we interviewed the mad Mr Banes… We turned a giant battleship spotlight around and shone it directly into his eyes and bombarded him with high explosive armour piercing questions until he eventually failed under the onslaught, keeled over and sunk down into the ...