The world is a noisy place. It makes little difference whether noise is coming from a construction site outside the window, loud neighbors in a crowded apartment, or the supposedly “quiet” times in the middle of the night when the sounds of the crickets outside are amplified ten fold. I ...
Drawing Music and Its Impact on Webcomic Art
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 24, 2014FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Chevalier Donation Drive
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 21, 2014
TheDeeMan and Coydog are running a donation drive to self-publish their fantastic comic Chevalier! Chevalier won last year's Drunk Duck Award for Best All Ages Comic.
Donations will go towards printing and shipping their current book “Chevalier the Queen's Mouseketeer: The Hither and Yon” as well as the ...
QUACKCAST 158 - A very modern Modest Medusa, part 2
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 18, 2014Title: Episode 158 - A very modern Modest Medusa, part 2
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In the second part of our interview with Jake Richmond of Modest Medusa Banes and I discuss with him topics like the use of gradients in comic art, background details, simplifying your artwork, cell shading, and the perils ...
QUACKCAST 157 - A very modern Modest Medusa
Ozoneocean at 7:00AM, March 11, 2014 LISTEN!
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Banes returns to the Quackcast to join me on another interview with Jake Richmond of the very popular Modest Medusa! This time we get to find out more about Jake's comic making technique, his writing style, character creation, colour technique, drawing materials, programs and his whole work ...
QUACKCAST 156 - The Abt Nihil and Pit Face bottomless Hero Alliance
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 4, 2014 LISTEN!
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Today we welcome a dastardly new bad guy alliance between three powerful super villains of Duck City: Ozone Evil, Pit Dastardly, and Abt Destruction! In their pirate lair aboard the bottomless pirate ship, the trio revel in their shared passion for bottomlessnessnessnessitude. Abt and Pit go on to ...
¡Viva la Carnival! Happy Mardi Gras.
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 3, 2014
It has been a quiet weekend for news. Just a reminder, you can send any news pertaining to webcomics to HippieVan and me.
I spent Sunday evening watching the Oscars as anyone who has lived in the entertainment capital of the world is morally obligated to do. There were no ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Split Screen Kickstarter
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 28, 2014
Jaymzeecat is running a kickstarter to have her comic Split Screen printed!
Split Screen is a touching romance and was nominated this year for a Drunk Duck Award in the “Best Completed Comic” category. The Split Screen graphic novel will include the entire comic with retouched graphics, a brand new ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Completed Webcomics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 21, 2014
A couple weeks back I did an “abandoned webcomics” newspost talking about some of my favourite comics on DD that have been orphaned over the years. As an antidote to that (and thanks to bravo1102’s suggestion), this week is a “mission accomplished” post highlighting completed webcomics
This newspost was ...
A lovey dovey FRIDAY NEWSPOST
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 14, 2014Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!
Comics are the perfect medium for telling love stories because we have access to every part of a character’s life: their innermost thoughts, their conversations, their sly glances at a love interest…
After Oz and Banes did their great 2-part quackcast discussing love in ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Abandoned Webcomics Nostalgia
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 7, 2014
It's one of the great tragedies of webcomics the way ‘real life’ so often gets in the way of our comic work.
I was going through my list of favourites the other day; having been here nearly 6 years now, it has gotten pretty unwieldy to the point that ...