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Episode 262 - DUCK Radio 3

Mar 14, 2016

tags: Banes, DrunkDuck, D.U.C.K. Radio3, DUCK radio special 3, featured comic, Gunwallace, Gunwallace music special, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, QUACKCAST 262, Satan Ninja 198X, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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WELCOME to the final part of the Radio D.U.C.K. trilogy! This is where we put all the rest of Gunwallace's amazing songs AND a special treat for you as well listeners: Jimmy's Folly. Our radio DJs have gone just a little crazy this time… the brutish, hard rocking Jimmy Storm, demonic Anastasia Ravendale, and dried up old Rhet Blanket battle it out over the on air turf in the strangest way possible… BRINGING THE THUNDER! Gunwallace's amazing comic themes meanwhile are just as juicy as ever.

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Episode 261 - D.U.C.K. Radio2

Mar 7, 2016

tags: Banes, DrunkDuck, D.U.C.K. Radio2, DUCK radio special 2, featured comic, Gunwallace, Gunwallace music special, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pickled, Pitface, podcast, QUACKCAST 261, Webcomics community

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Radio D.U.C.K. has come again for part number TWO! Bringing you ALL of Gunwallace's lovely tunes, one after another. This time we get to meet Evangelist for DD Reverend Carlton Crackers, SciFi Hour with Kurt and Steve, Woman 1 and Woman 2, a return of DJ and Rhett Blanket, and introducing BILLY-BOB Banes and JETHRO Ozoneocean! All these fantastic personalities are the mind children of scriptwriter and musician Gunwallace, and played by Gunwallace, Banes, Ozoneocean, and Pitface. Enjoy the music and remember the name of Gunwallace!

Episode 260 - D.U.C.K. Radio1

Feb 29, 2016

tags: Banes, Drunk Duck, Drunk Duck 54 cards, D.U.C.K. Radio1, DUCK radio special 1, featured comic, Gunwallace, Gunwallace music special, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 260, Webcomics community

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Welcome to D.U.C.K. Radio! Get ready for your DJs: Smooth Ramone, Hard rock Jimmy Storm (BRINING THE THUNDER!!!), Weatherman Rhet Blanket, Conspiracy theorist Smiley Fraudson, and hilarious* Maple and The Syrup (*they're not funny). This is the first part of Radio DUCK, we're bringing you ALL of the fantastic themes Gunwallace has composed for many great webcomics. You got a small, tiny, insignificant taste little taste of it in Quackcast 258, now be prepared to take the FULL blast! 29 of Gunwallace's classic themes in this cast and two more casts to go to get the rest so stay tuned. Gunwallace radio - All great music all the time!

Episode 259 - Drawing Crowd Scenes

Feb 22, 2016

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drawing Crowd Scenes, featured comic, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Phineus Magician for Hire, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 259, Tantz Aerine, The weird adventures of Armless Amy, Video

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Crowd scenes of any sort can be horrible to draw. There are many, many reasons for this, one of them is that it's quite boring to invent a whole lot of new character models just for the purpose of making a group scene. My own way of combating that problem was to do cameos of other characters that I stole from my fellow Quackcasters, Banes, Pitface and Tantz. There are many other tricks and clever ways of managing crows though which you can hear bout in the Quackcast or see us talk about in the Quackcast video. Gunwallace's theme for Phineus Magician for Hire is VERY Sword and Sorcery! It reminded me a little of the famous music to the first (and best), Conan film, and brought to mind the writing of Fritz Leiber.

Episode 257 - Accents in Comics

Feb 8, 2016

tags: and different Languages in Comics, Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Aidana, Normal, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 257, Showing Accents, Tantz Aerine, Video, Webcomics community

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Using accents and different languages in comics can be a challenge, or at least a challenge to represent. Some people will actually have their text IN a different language or even a made up language in the case of aliens, and they'll have translations in a footnote. Some will use pointed brackets to represent the different language, some will use different fonts, and some won't bother showing that there is a different language being spoken at all. We spoke to Tantz Aerine and Pitface about this because that's something they both have to tackle in Brave Resistance and Tantz's solo comic Without Moonlight because it's very central to the plot: Tantz uses different colours for the languages. Pitface phonetically represents different accents in her comic Putrid Meat quite expertly. However, there can be challenges to phonetic representation when you get it wrong, most frequently in the case of Irish and Scottish accents! This was inspired by a newspost by Hippievan! Listen ad enjoy Gunwallace's audio interpretation of Aidana. VERY Pink Floyd!

Episode 256 - Using and creating weapons in fiction

Feb 1, 2016

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, music for The Understanding, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 256, Using and creating weapons in fiction, Video, Webcomics community, XTIN

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Tantz Aerine, Banes and Ozoneocean discuss the topic of using and creating weapons in fiction and some of the pitfalls involved- all the things you can easily do wrong and do better! Stuff like using overly specialised weapons in too general a role, like giant swords where they'd be next to useless, or tricked out assault rifles with way too many things hooked onto them so they're oversized and weight a ton- also copying ideas and tropes about weapons usage without understanding why the exist and in the process making many of the same mistakes as others have in the past.

Episode 255 - Drunk Duck Improvement Drive

Jan 25, 2016

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, Drunk Duck Improvement Drive, featured comic, Gunwallace, Indiegogo, Mindfold, music for Xup, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 255, Video, Webcomics community

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We're trying to fix up Drunk Duck, adding the the comic statistics back in, fixing forums, adding notifications to PQs and MORE, but we need money to do it. In this Quackcast, Ozoneocean, Banes, and Pitface talk about the improvements we want to have on DD, and what YOU can do to help us out. Please consider donating to our Indiegogo fund-raising drive to help us pay our programmer: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/drunk-duck-webcomics-improvement-drive/x/4410947#/ There are a LOT of cool perks you can have including your own Quackcast interview all about YOU, original art from The creator of Modest Medusa, Charby the Vampirate and others, a 126 page Modest Medusa comic for only $10 and much more! If you can't spare any change, please consider spreading the word to your readers. Remember, these fixes are for everyone, by donating to DD you're helping yourself. :D

Episode 252 - Wish Fulfilment

Jan 4, 2016

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, music for Professor Herbert and GEO, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Professor Herbert and GEO, Quackcast 252, Tantz Aerine, Video, Webcomics community, Wish Fulfilment

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Happy new year! In this first Quackcast for 2016 we have Banes, Pitface and Tantz Aerine along to talk to us about Banes' neswpost topic of Wish Fulfilment in writing. It can be a good thing in that it makes the writer more interested and passionate about what they're doing as well as creating a very relatable ideal for readers with similar tastes. The negative side is that they make their world too perfect and too specific to themselves so that the whole thing just looks like an exercise in boring, pointless ego stroking. Gunwallace's theme this time was for Professor Herbert and GEO, which was also the featured comic! It sounds a bit like the theme to an '80s cartoon, which exactly what the comic looks like it should be O_o