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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 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 236 - The Songcast/Drunkcast

Sep 14, 2015

tags: Banes, by Dooki, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Metamorphosis Protocal, music for Putrid Meat, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 236, Songcast Drunkcast, Tantz Arine, Webcomics community

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Pitface, Banes, Tantz Aerine and Ozoneocean reunited for a repeat of the legendary Drunkcast of Quackcast 137! Almost exactly 100 Quackcasts later we hit the booze again, but this time we had a goal to pursue with our drunken ramblings: music. We decided to talk about what themes inspire our comics, inspire us and represent our comic characters… and we came up with a LOT, too bloody much for me to link to dammit! We've also included all the links to the Quackcasts where themes for our comics appeared, AND Gunwallace has done the theme to Putrid Meat so it means ALL our comics have themes now!!! So enjoy our silly drunken chatting, this is who Drunk Duck Quackcasts are SUPPOSED to be!

Episode 233 - Formulas Forever!

Aug 24, 2015

tags: Banes, by Cogs and Claws, by Gunwallace, Cogs and Claws, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Formulas Forever, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Brave New World, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 233, Webcomics community

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Here we go again, back to formulas! This time we got some external input. Fellow DDers had a say about their idea about the utility of formulas and how they use them in their writing and comics. It's important to understand formulas in writing so you know what works and why it works, it can help you in your own work. And when you need to and you've got the ability you can create your OWN writing formula. But remember: the formula is just the bare skeleton, you have to add all the meat and flesh to it with the rest of your writing, don't let the bones show through! Listen to Gunwallace's beautiful theme for Brave New World! Oh, and one last thing… HAPPY BIRTHDAY TANTZ AERINE!!!!

Quackcast 229 - Enter the Dragon's den: comic book shops

Jul 26, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, comic book shops, Drunk Duck, Enter the Dragon's den, featured comic, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music for No future vanish in time, Nommie Zombies, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 229, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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Tantz and Pitface join Banes and Ozone to talk about comic book stores and the experience of going into them... Yes, that's right: webcomicers actually going into REAL bricks and mortar places that sell comics printed on PAPER! o_O It turns out that none of us really do that anymore for various reasons and we all have different recollections of going to cimicbook shops in the past. We also recount the experiences of other DDers who've described their comic buying adventures. Check out Gunwallace's haunting and desolate theme for the comic No Future, Vanish In Time.

Episode 220 - the Process of Creation

May 12, 2015

tags: Banes, Bravo, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, music for featured comic, Ozoneocean, Pit Face, Quackcast 220, Temple at 50 fathoms, the Process of Creation, Webcomics podcast

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Hello from Belgrade in Serbia! This Quackcast was recorded 3 weeks ago and I am currently in Europe, though I'm still writing this from Perth Western Australia 3 weeks in the past… So in this particular Quackcast you get to hear ME Ozoneocean, Banes, Bravo1102 and Tantz Aerine (who I visited in Athens last week), chat about the process of creation! Creation is a topic very close to the heart of all webcomic creators and the four of us try and explore all aspects of it with the help of some very wise people on DD. The music for this week is Gunwallace's them fro The Temple at 50 Fathoms, a comic by Skreem, SO if you like a hyper dance club sound, you better strap on your dancin' pants when you listen to this one!

Episode 219 - Sexy and attractive characters, Part 3

May 10, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, DD community, Featured comic, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Johnny Bullet, Ozoneocean, part 3, Pit Face, Quackcast 219, Sexy and attractive characters, Tantz Aerine, Unhinged, Webcomics podcast

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And now for the last in our series of questioning just what makes characters sexy and/or attractive! We have more interesting contributions to read from and delve into but we thought we'd stop for now so we don't waste all our sexiness in one go. Banes and Ozoneocean are being attractive this time, while PitFace and Tantz Aerine are the sexy ones, a role which they approach with gusto. The subject of the essence of sexiness proved to be contentious and surprisingly complicated! The music we have by Gunwallace this week is the theme for Johnny Bullet- it's a sexy 1970s theme with lots of “chicka-wa” guitar.

Episode 218 - Sexy and attractive characters, Part 2

May 10, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, DD community, Featured comic, Gryphon Rise, music for FOX Academy The New Breed, Ozoneocean, part 2, Pit Face, Quackcast 218, Sexy and attractive characters, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics podcast

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Once again we're chatting about just WHAT makes characters sexy and or attractive. The sexy Banes and Ozoneocean are joined by two attractive ladies, PitFace and Tantz Aerine, so now we have even more insight into the topic! We discuss the topic with humour and intelligence, with the help of the fantastic contributions for some very canny and sexually attractive Drunk Duckers. And of course we have some lovely music by Gunwallace, a secret agent theme for FOX Academy The New Breed!