The Duck Webcomics

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!

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Topics and Show Notes

Episode 254 - Sexism in your OWN work?k

Jan 18, 2016

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, music for DDSR, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 254, Sexism in your OWN work?, Unbroken Seal, Video, Webcomics community

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OMFG you sexist PIG! Heh… today we talk about trying to recognise sexism in your OWN work, what to do about it, and WHY. It turns out it can be very hard to do, and if you DO acknowledged it the instinct is to rationalise it away, justify it, or just try and brazen it out in some kind of old fashioned, largely embarrassing, display. I frequently do all three. How do we spot it? Well the Bechdel test isn't that useful, that's better for looking at broad trends not giving specific works a pass/fail - sexy outfits is one thing, if females are dressed minimally or in tight gear in CONTRAST to the males or vice versa - females ONLY having old stereotype roles (maiden/mother/whore archetypes, secretary, nurse, victim, maid etc), though this is context sensitive, i.e. it's more forgiveable if you're doing a historical story or something stylised like a fairytale or a noire story - Gender balance is another thing, it's context sensitive because certain stories will naturally have more of one gender (WW2 submarine crew, Girl's school, a prison story etc), and you don't have to have an exact balance anyway but it's definitely something to THINK about because there is no reason most stories should feature a majority of male characters and a minority of females. WHY should you think about it? Why should you care? Well the audience for almost ALL types of stories, be they action adventure, romance, Scifi, fantasy, historical, even porn, is getting close to 50/50 between men and women these days (maybe it always was?), it really doesn't make sense to alienate or belittle half your audience just because you like to cling to older ways of doing stuff. Gunwallace's theme this week reminds me of a cross between the Knightrider theme and Gunship- it's VERY retro-future. It's the theme to DDSR, a comic with cool custom “sprites”, AKA pixel-art.

Episode 246 - Characters: Fictional Love vs Real Life Hate

Nov 23, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Characters Fictional Love, Drunk Duck, featured comic Apothecary Supreme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Jesus 2016, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 246, Real Life Hate, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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Characters you would love in media but hate in real life! In this Quackcast, once again we have an ensemble cast of Banes, Ozone, Pitface, and Tantz Aerine, but THIS time we were also joined by the talented and studious kawaiidaigakusei! We wanted to talk about fictional characters we love in fiction but would hate if they were real. It was sort of an extension of last week's Quackcast topic, with that fiction VS reality vibe. Gunwallace's gospel themed theme for Jesus 2016 is hilariously great!

Episode 228 - Conflicting conflicts conflict

Jul 19, 2015

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Conflicting conflicts conflict, Drunk Duck, featured comic, music for Tales from Two Tiny Tittybars, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 228, Regarding Dandelions, Webcomics community

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This time we're talking about conflict in webcomic writing, and any writing in general really. Conflict is one of the main drivers of a story, so you pretty much have to have it in there somewhere! But how do you approach it? Do you set it up really carefully or just put a bunch of volatile characters together and see what happens? I think for a lot of us we don't think too much about the science of our conflicts, rather we approach it artistically and develop things by feel and instinct because conflict is such an intrinsic trait. But understanding how you use it can be very useful when you're writing satisfying resolutions and climaxes. A good understanding of the types of conflict in your story is also pretty essential when you're writing a good comedy (it's a great source of humour!), and also when you're explaining or selling your work to the public: It's all very well to chat about your clever setting and your funky characters, but conflict is the reason they're IN a story to begin with and that's really what will get people wanting to read out it. I hope you enjoy Gunwallace's great porn style music type theme for Tales of Two Tiny Titty bars!

Episode 223 - Collaborating with the Aliens

Jun 15, 2015

tags: Albert the Alien, by Gunwallace, Collaborating with the Aliens!, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Kawaiidaigakusei, music for The Ink, Ozoneocean, Pig's Cautionary Night Tales: Seance, podcast, QUACKCAST 223, The Fan, Trevor Mueller, Webcomics community

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On today's Quackcast I, the marvellous Ozoneocean am speaking to the equally marvellous Trevor Mueller of Albert the Alien! This fine chap is returning to the Quackcast (was on Quackcast 184), to chat with me about the process of collaborating from the point of view of a writer who's working with an artist. Trevor also he another Kickstarter for the second volume of Albert the Alien out now so please consider contributing to that. Trevor is a highly acclaimed writer of a fantastic and funny all ages comic and his artist on Albert the Alien, Gabriel Bautista, is an award winning successful comic creator in his own right. Trevor brings a LOT of experience to the topic of collaboration. Catch the great theme for The Ink by our very own Gunwallace!

Episode 216 - Characters done right, part 4

Apr 27, 2015

tags: Banes, Bravo1102, by Gunwallace, by Toondoctor, Characters done right, DD community, Featured comic, Johnny Bullet, music for prodigium, Ozoneocean, part 4, Pit Face, Quackcast 216, Tantz Aerine, theme for Prodigium, Webcomics podcast

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This is the FOURTH and very final part of our series on what makes a good character in webcomics, movies, and any sort of writing in general. Our very first four-parter! Ozone and Banes are once again joined by the panel of Pitface, Tantz Aerine, and Bravo1102. Together we get though the last of the contributions from the great and wise people of DD who've had a lot of very intelligent things on the subject of character writing. And of course there's an amazing aural interpretation of a comic for you by Gunwallace who's done a spectacular theme for Prodigium.

Episode 214 - Good character, Bad character? Part 2

Apr 12, 2015

tags: Bad character?, Banes, Bravo1102, by Gunwallace, by Yiu, DD community, Featured comic, Good character, music for Joy to the World, Ozoneocean, part 2, Pit Face, Quackcast 214, Sentiments, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics podcast

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Continuing our theme from last week, Bravo1102 joins us to discuss good and bad character creation, along with two very well written characters; PitFace and Tantz Aerine! We use our best silly voices to read out the words of the smart people who had something to say on the subject in question and then we all get together to pick apart and discuss the points they made. Bravo joins us for the first time as a participant and not an interviewee and showcases his excellent and versatile vocal talents! Also- Gunwallace's tune for Joy To The World is especially funky. Please enjoy Quackcast 214!

Episode 204 - Talisman returns from exile

Feb 2, 2015

tags: Banes, Barb Myers Jacobs, by Gunwallace, DD community, Featured comic Nobody can eat 50 eggs, music for The Ginger and Shadow, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 204, Talisman returns from exile, Webcomics podcast

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Way back in 2012 Ozone interviewed the marvellously talented and professional Barb Myers about her art and her fantastic comics. Well it's 2015 now and Barb has finally been able to put out the whole of her comic "Talisman: Return of the Exile" for sale on Amazon! So of course now was the perfect time to catch up for another chat. I first came across her lovely comic on Drunk Duck years and years ago when it was called "Return to Donelly", it was a beautiful looking piece of work and it rightly brought her to the attention of the pros. It was picked up for Keen spot and then a publisher wanted to sell it in bookshops everywhere. Well things went screwy after that and it never really reached its full potential unfortunately. It disappeared from radar totally. Well now it's BACK! You can buy this great 108 full colour fantasy comic book story for only $10 US dollars. Mine should get to me on about the 10th of February. ^_^