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Quackcast 235 - Climax of the Climaxes

Ozoneocean at Sept. 8, 2015, midnight
tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, by snowshadow, Climax of the Climaxes, Drunk Duck, featured comic, music for Busty Solar, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 235, Tangled River, Webcomics community

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Pitface joins Ozone and Banes again for the second and last part of the climax cast! It's the climax of the climax casts!! We discuss what people think about climaxes in stories, their own and those they watch or read. It's hard to write up to climaxes and even …

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Comic-making shortcuts

HippieVan at Sept. 4, 2015, midnight



After a long comic-making hiatus, I’ve had several ideas for comics in the last little while. Working on the first one, though, I’ve realized that unless I get a heck of a lot faster at drawing it's unlikely that all of my ideas will ever come to fruition. For amateur …

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Artist: Walt Simonson

Banes at Sept. 3, 2015, midnight
tags: Banes, walt simonson


image by Walt Simonson

I read a lot of Marvel Comics back in the day. The Hulk, Spider Man, The X-Men…it was actually the ORIGINAL X-Men I really loved (which I read in reprints). Right around the time I was discovering those old Stan Lee/Jack Kirby X-Men stories, the team …

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Quackcast 234 - Climactic Climaxes!

Ozoneocean at Sept. 1, 2015, midnight
tags: Banes, by azureXtwilight, by Gunwallace, Climactic Climaxes, Drunk Duck, featured comic, music for Just Another Day, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 234, Re Set, Webcomics community

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What's best? One big climax, multiple small ones, early, or delayed? How much should you work UP to a climax? What about anticlmactic events, how important are they?
Climaxes are really important in stories. Often you work up to them over the course of a whole series, but each …

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Let's Colour With Crayons!!

kawaiidaigakusei at Aug. 31, 2015, midnight



(Colouring Sheets Included @ Bottom of Post)

Did you ever watch Mister Rogers when you were a little kid? My all-time favourite episode was the one where he takes the viewer to the crayon factory and showed us how crayons were made. I thought it was the most mesmerizing thing …

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Long Form Stories and Standalone Pages

Banes at Aug. 27, 2015, midnight
tags: archives, Banes, thursdays



Make sure you've read all the previous issues!

I'm at a nice place in my webcomic right now. Well, it's nice as the writer, at least.
The characters have a nice history now, with some adventures behind them, some established relationships, and a stable of supporting characters who can be …

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Quackcast 233 - Formulas Forever!

Ozoneocean at Aug. 25, 2015, midnight
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 …

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Late Night Drive

kawaiidaigakusei at Aug. 24, 2015, midnight



Like any typical night that I get exhausted from staying cooped up inside the house, I grabbed my car keys, started up the engine, and went out on a drive by myself. Tonight was a bit special because I had a mixed CD soundtrack of the arcade driving game, Wangan …

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Tell Me What I Say - Dialogue

Banes at Aug. 20, 2015, midnight
tags: Banes, scenes, Thursdays, writing



image by Banes

Last Thursday I talked a little about writing a scene, in terms of the change that happens, what the character wants, and what obstacle is in the way of achieving that want.

But what about dialogue? Eh?

One way to help define what's going on in a …

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