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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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Topics and Show Notes

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 250 - Tradigital art - Digital VS Traditional

Dec 21, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Digital VS Traditional, Drunk Duck, featured comic The Grazing Mongrel, Gunwallace, music for The Dragon Fists of Smorty Smythe, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 250, Tradigital art, Video, Webcomics community

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There's not really a difference between digital and traditional art - art is art, your tools and media don't really matter, what's important is how its meant to be seen and what it's meant to be used for. But, people do like to discuss this though and so do we so that is exactly what we did! We opened the floor to people's opinions and experiences on the subject and everyone had their say. Gunwallace's theme for The Dragon Fists of Smorty Smythe reminds me strongly of The Journey of the Sorcerer by The Eagles!

Episode 245 - fiction influencing reality and the myth of the friendzone

Nov 16, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic 0Uuzarus0Redemption, fiction influencing reality, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Entanglement, Ozoneocean, Pitface, Quackcast 245, Tantz Aerine, the myth of the friendzone, Webcomics community

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In Quackcast 245 we TRY to talk about my idea that fictional characters, stereotypes, tropes and situations in media have influenced their counterparts in reality, and in a lot of ways helped to create them. Fictional stereotypes and tropes are made out of simplified models of things that happen in reality, usually by pulling together all the most dramatic, big, bold versions and then turning them up to 11 to make a new, more exciting fictional caricature, that NEW image is then spread far and wide and influences people to imitate it- a good example being the modern “cowboy”. This idea was kicked off by Pitface suggesting one of my characters looked like a douchey friendzoned character. I thought about it and realised that a real life version of this character (who's mooning over a girl in a relationship with another guy), WOULD be exactly as she described, also those characters are common to relationship comedies and so often friendzoned… SO that got me thinking: could the current crop of “nice guy” fedora friendzone exponents have based their crazy theories about relationships on images in the media? -since they don't have much relationship to reality yet they so closely match pre-existing tropes in movies and TV shows. Then we expanded the idea to other examples of media representations influencing reality. Pitface, Banes, and Tantz Aerine join me on the Quackcast. Gunwallace does a lovely theme for Entanglement.

Episode 244 - Horror playlist

Nov 9, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic Leon, Gunwallace, Horror playlist, music for BARBARIAN ADVENTURE, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 244, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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This week's Quackcast marks the end of the Halloweencasts! Late, I know, but we recorded these all in advance. We dressed in costume again, which you can see in our VIDEO. Banes as the arctic death wolf, Pitface as the evil Nancy Regan, Tantz as a fierce Greek pirate rebel, revolutionary warrior, and myself as a horrible, horrible glam metal rocker. The topic of discussion was inspired by another newspost by Banes, this time the subject was “your horror playlist”, so we chat about all the scary, horror themed stuff we enjoy around this time of year. Gunwallace's theme was for BARBARIAN ADVENTURE, I LOVE this track! It's heavy and bluesy, reminiscent of Lenny Kravitz or Cream.

Episode 243 - Horror, Terror, Revulsion

Nov 2, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, Entanglement by TenorAnathema, featured comic, Gunwallace, Horror, music for Steel and Manitou, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 243, rated E, revulsion, Tantz Aerine, terror, Webcomics community

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Yet ANOTHER Halloweenie cast! This time we used Banes' newspost for inspiration and we talk about the difference between horror, terror, and revulsion in horror themed media along with examples of that in our own comics. We dressed in costume AGAIN, this time Tantz is Zoe from her comic Wolf, I'm Jack the Ripper, Pit is a mouth-head mutant and Banes is the invisible man! Gunwallace's theme this week was for Steel and Manitou. It's a haunting cowboy, desert night, mystical piece that perfectly matches with the theme of the comic.

Episode 237 - The Songcast

Sep 21, 2015

tags: Banes, by Eleoza, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Taco El Gato, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 237, Songcast, Throviria, Webcomics community

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For Quackcast 237 we asked people about the songs that inspire them when they do their comics, which songs go with which parts of their comics, what would be the ideal comic movie theme, what songs or music get you in the MOOD to do your comic, and finally; just how great are Gunwallace's fantastic comic theme tunes? And speaking of theme tunes, the masterful Gunwallace has given us a Salsa theme for Taco El Gato!