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#We Can Do Better

Banes at Jan. 17, 2019, midnight

Today I learned … from a commercial! … that men can do better!

Comic by Banes

#thanksgillette

Happy Thursday, everyone! Hope you have a great one!

-Banes

FEATURED COMIC --> Cafe on Crepe Island

kawaiidaigakusei at Jan. 16, 2019, midnight

tags: by, Cafe, COMIC, Crepe, dyohna, FEATURED, Island, on, T

Berry just moved into his Aunt Key’s home, but with a price! He now has to work at a cafe on Crepe Island and his coworker, Candy, is helping him with the rundown on regular customers and daily chores. The cafe is located directly across the street from In & …

QUACKCAST 409 - Meaning, Intention, and symbolism

Ozoneocean at Jan. 15, 2019, midnight

tags: and symbolisim, Banes, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Intention, Meaning, Ozoneocean, Pep Squad, Percival Pigeon's Perilous Plan, podcast, Quackcast 409, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

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Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books--Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/

*The topic we discussed in this Quackcast was looking for symbolism, meaning and intention in comics: The English literature approach! Deeper meanings and all that. It's fun to do actually and sometimes …

Tattoo Art

kawaiidaigakusei at Jan. 14, 2019, midnight

While walking down the street in San Diego’s gas lamp quarter I pass a tattoo shop and my friend says to me, “Let’s get tattoos! I already know what I want my next design to be.” I hesitated and walked on not because of my lack of interest in tattoo …

Writing Mental Illness (Part 1)

Tantz_Aerine at Jan. 12, 2019, midnight

tags: character design, mental illness, narrative, tantz_aerine, webcomics

Writing a character with mental illness can be a very tricky thing. Writers usually go for the extremely rare, exotic and spectacular: multiple personality disorders, extreme manifestations of psychopathy or sociopathy, high functioning autism with that ever alluring 'savant' magic going for the character, bombastically spectacular schizophrenia… in many ways, …

Exposition - Just the tip

Emma_Clare at Jan. 11, 2019, midnight

tags: creation, DrunkDuck, narrative, stories, webcomic

In a nutshell, exposition is a big ole mound of information that the author wants the reader to know before they move on in the plot. It often gets a bad rap but that is usually due to it being used incorrectly. There is definitely a place for exposition so …

Seriously Funny

Banes at Jan. 10, 2019, midnight

tags: Banes, bobeinstein, characters, comedy, superdave, thursday

Seriously Funny

I didn't have a chance last week to talk about the passing of Bob Einstein, aka Super Dave Osborne, aka Marty Funkhauser.

Hilarious as Larry David's sometimes-nemesis and sometimes-friend, Marty Funkhauser, I remember him from many years ago on an old show called "Bizarre".

The host was John …

FEATURED COMIC --> Percival Pigeons Perilous Plan

Ozoneocean at Jan. 9, 2019, midnight

tags: FEATURED COMIC, Percival Pigeons Perilous Plan

Percival the pigeon has a plan! It's a crazy plan and it's probably not going to work… in fact it certainly won't but he's going to try it anyway. In the far future humanity have left the earth a horrible wasteland haunted by giant mutated swamp-beasts and the brave inheritors …

QUACKCAST 408 - The imitation game

Ozoneocean at Jan. 8, 2019, midnight

tags: Banes, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 408, Run Stop Go, Scarred Eden, Tantz Aerine, The imitation game, Webcomics community

LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books--Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/

Happy new year! This is the first Quackcast recorded in 2019! Pitface is back too, can you believe it? In this Quackcast we chat about Imitation, based on Amelius's newspost from last …

No Spoilers!

kawaiidaigakusei at Jan. 7, 2019, midnight

While talking about the Golden Globes last night, my best friend tells me to stop spoiling the end results. ‘Okay, I will stay in the crisper’, I responded. I should have known! A majority of people do not like endings of books or winners of award shows revealed before it …

15 Years, I Keep On Duckin'

Amelius at Jan. 6, 2019, 12:13 p.m.

tags: comics, community, depression, drunkduck, personal

Oh what a coincidence, that my newspost day should fall upon the date of my 15th year on this very site! So naturally, on this anniversary, I'd like to open up and reflect on how the Duck has left a major impact on my life and work.

Every year when …

Writing Your Own OC Spinoffs

Tantz_Aerine at Jan. 5, 2019, midnight

tags: character design, comics, OCs, spinoffs, tantz_aerine, webcomics

I'm not sure how many creators do it, but I often place my original characters in different settings, writing out stories about them very much like I'd write fanfiction about some established franchise.

It's even more fun when I do it mixing them up with characters from other creators! Pit-Face …

Following through on your NY goals

Emma_Clare at Jan. 4, 2019, midnight

tags: creation, DrunkDuck, narrative, stories, webcomic

If you are like 92.4% of people at the beginning of the New Year (not a factual number mind you), you have sat down with a shine in your eye to set about making a list of goals to achieve in 2019. I know I have. So far there’s only …

Therefore, But and Because

Banes at Jan. 3, 2019, midnight

tags: banes, but, structure, therefore, thursday, writing

But and Therefore

I'm a fan of user-friendly, practical advice on things, especially writing. It's why I dig the Banes Method (it's not my method; it's just named after me).

Anyway, I came upon some dandy advice from Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame that struck me …

FEATURED COMIC --> Run Stop Go

kawaiidaigakusei at Jan. 2, 2019, midnight

tags: bucket, by, COMIC, FEATURED, Go, Run, Stop, T

It is Halloween night and a crescent moon is up in the sky. A fuzzy faced loner in a hoodie named Kurt is running through the street until he enters a bar to get a drink. Everyone is dressed up in fantastic costumes, so it is easy for someone out …