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Quackcast 625 - Designing Women

Ozoneocean at March 7, 2023, midnight

tags: Banes, Designing Women, Drunk duck, Featured comic and music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 625, Sunday Punch, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

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Character design is a fun process but not without its challenges. Do you design the character or their story first? I've followed both of those approaches, they have pluses and minuses. On …

A Round of Upcoming Milestones for NeverLore by InkyMoondrop and The KAMics by KAM!

kawaiidaigakusei at March 6, 2023, midnight

Photo: “NeverLore: Cover” by InkyMoondrop. (February 2023)

InkyMoondrop writes:

Hi!

NeverLore doesn't seem to have an especially great launch yet, but Chapter 2 is about 70% done, will dive into an actual fantasy environment and I think I'll let it return to a Weekly update schedule with publishing on Tuesdays …

Poetry Time 22: Silhouettes

Andreas_Helixfinger at March 5, 2023, midnight

tags: andreas helixfinger, poetry time 22

Forest branching silhouette
Like teaming black veins on a reddening sunset
Blizzard shedding winter haze
Like dreaming white reins on a deadening snow case
Desert breathing nomad storm
Like screaming brown banes on a withering lifeform
Ocean feeding vapor-skies
Like steaming green lanes on a bottoming sunrise

NaaN (Now, always …

Frank Frazetta, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century

Ozoneocean at March 4, 2023, midnight

tags: artist, Frank Frazetta

The other day I saw a clip of Frank Frazetta explaining his artistic process and what made his style unique, I found it fascinating. It made me remember just how awesome he was and how little regard he has in the wider art world. There were a lot of great …

DD update post 3rd of March

Ozoneocean at March 3, 2023, midnight

tags: DD, update

Site redesign update, NEWS!

Alexey will now begin to tackle comic page templates, making them conform to the new style. Em has come up with two templates for us to start to work with (compact and standard size). These will be the standard default, unedited templates, but they will also …

You Kids Are Testing My Limits

Banes at March 2, 2023, midnight

tags: thursdayswithbanes, writing

I was reading a critique of a series, a successful series, of novels. I think it's an urban fantasy/horror thing where the main character has a specific paranormal ability, limited, but useful in her detective work. She had a love interest, who was maybe on and off, but somewhat consistently …

FEATURED COMIC --> Sunday Punch

Ozoneocean at March 1, 2023, midnight

tags: FEATURED COMIC, SundayPunch

Tag Forester is a hard boiled noir style PI working in and around the city of Portland, Oregon. This time his case involves the fallout from the death of an old client… Who will get the money and the house? -his cheating wife who abandoned him when he was dying …

Quackcast 624 - Comic panel creation

Ozoneocean at Feb. 28, 2023, midnight

tags: American Pantheon, Banes, Comic panel creation, Drunk duck, Featured, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 624, Sell Outs, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

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HPKomic is a great guy, he's been on DD since almost the beginning. He alternates the Friday newsposts with me, he focusses on the intricacies of comic panels. This time he asked …

Cupcake War Machine Near its End. A Round of Milestones for: Interstellar Battle Girls; Ice Cream Truck of Doom; The Last Space Wizard; and Pulse Comics!

kawaiidaigakusei at Feb. 27, 2023, midnight

Photo: “Twistjam: Morgyn and Lacey”. Original characters from Alone is a Hard Thing Toby by David A Webcomic and Hawk and Flo Adventures Part 1 Ice Cream Truck of Doom by HawkandFloAdventures. (February 2023)

A nice round of milestones from four creators to celebrate the accomplishments on The Duck:

The …

Poetry Time 21: Self-love

Andreas_Helixfinger at Feb. 26, 2023, midnight

tags: andreas helixfinger, poetry time 21

Kiss this undulated heart for it knows vibration
Vibration knowing from within.
Hug this unburied thought for it glows gratulation
Gratulation glowing from within
Caress this unsheltered face for it shows sensation
Sensation showing from within
Cure this uncovered soul for it sows liberation
Liberation sowing from within

NaaN (Now, …

How it all began

Tantz_Aerine at Feb. 25, 2023, midnight

tags: artist life, artist origins, Tantz_Aerine, webcomics, writing

I was supposed to write the last post on my 'toxic' character design series, but I've been deep cleaning the house all day and I'm exhausted. My brain refuses to think so that post will need to wait till next time. Instead, I'd like to talk about how I …

Panel By Panel: Let Me Ask You Something

hpkomic at Feb. 24, 2023, 12:53 p.m.

tags: challenge, discussion, hpkomic, panelbypanel

Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I wanted to try something different. I'd like to ask you all some questions. I have plenty more panel analysis articles, but I also want to mix things up.

I have …

Prose v Comics

Banes at Feb. 23, 2023, midnight

tags: navelgazing, thursdayswithbanes, writing

When I first started putting together my story idea for Typical Strange many years ago, I imagined it to be an animated series. With a lot of time and effort and learning Toon Boom software along the way, I had a pretty strong idea of the main characters, and a …

FEATURED COMIC --> Sell Outs

kawaiidaigakusei at Feb. 22, 2023, midnight

tags: COMIC, FEATURED, Outs, Sell, T, Terralopod

A crew of bandmates called “The Sellouts”: Leo the lead vocals and ukulele; Ariel the bass; Gulliver the horn; Gene the drummer; and Kei Zheng on keyboards. Favorite fan of the band Skuncle, also known as Barry Jackson, loves attending shows and is an older than dirt multi-instrumentalist great at …

Quackcast 623 - Arrogance vs humility

Ozoneocean at Feb. 21, 2023, midnight

tags: Arrogance vs humility, Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Kirth Space Bounty Hunter, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 623, Simple Complications, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

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Arrogance is a fun subject. Related to cockiness, hubris, assertiveness, self confidence and pride.
It's a fantastic trait for a villain and it's really fun to write. Heroes are often arrogant too …