I've spent a lot of this year dealing with the fallout of the death of a close friend. For whatever reason he picked as his executor a woman that none of the rest of his friends and family get along with. Actually, that's downplaying it. Most of them ...

Writing unsavoury people
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, June 5, 2025Quackcast 742 - ex-special forces!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 3, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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It seems like every single “badass” in TV, Movies, books and comics is “ex-special forces” or something like it these days. It's become a meaningless cliche. Writers use it as a shortcut to show ...
How we remember (the clothing of) a time.
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, May 29, 2025
I recently rewatched the The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, which is a 1996 released concert actually performed in December 1968. Various performers, including Jethro Tull, The Who, Taj Mahal, and Marianne Faithfull each perform a song. There were a few circus acts as well, including a fire eater ...
Balloon Placement is an Art
Tantz_Aerine at 12:56AM, May 24, 2025
I don't really have much to say when it comes to balloon placement, except that it's a balancing act: speech balloons must be looked at but not really be ‘seen’. In the sense that the balloons shouldn't obstruct the reader of the webcomic from easily reading the ...
Quackcast 740 - DD Radio play 4 planning!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 20, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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Do you like acting? Do you like being part of collabs or community projects? Do you like radio plays? If you answered yes to any of that the DD radio play is for you! Way ...
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome in Comics
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, May 15, 2025
The old 70s sitcom, Happy Days, is a mine of tropes. It's where we get the phrase “Jump the Shark” as there was an episode where The Fonz water-skied over a shark for some reason. Happy Days was also a spin-off generator, giving us Laverne and Shirley, Mork and ...
Quackcast 739 - Deferring to Experts
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 13, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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Artwork from Key of Dreams
When you're working on a project with other people, a comic collaboration for example, it's usually best to decide on different roles for everyone according to what they ...
Lack of Research
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 12, 2025
As creators of stories, be they novels or graphic novels or comics, we all have heard the adage “write what you know”. It's been drummed into our minds to the point that its cold fingers have our impostor syndrome in a deathgrip every time we venture our to write ...
FEATURED COMIC -->Water Lily High
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 9, 2025
Water Lilly, California, is home to some very strange people, namely a whole bunch of teens with supernatural abilities and some that might technically not be considered as actually being alive. They get into all the normal scrapes and japes teens normally do, plus some extra because of their weird ...