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Quackcast 226 - The Power of Contrast

Ozoneocean at July 7, 2015, midnight

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, music for Dead Leon, Ozoneocean, podcast, Preteen demon, Quackcast 226, The Power of Contrast, Webcomics community

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Content:
In this Quackcast I interrogated Mr Banes on the subject of his first newspost: Contrasts. It's a subject near and dear to him, even his comic "Typical Strange" has its name based on the concept, i.e. two words with the opposite meanings put together to create …

Voting Is Now Open for the Awards!

kawaiidaigakusei at July 6, 2015, midnight

tags: 2015, Awards, Ballot, Downtime, Drunk, Duck, Server

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IMPORTANT:

Server down time. DD will be down for an hour or two in the early hours of Wednesday morning (PST time). We're switching down to a cheaper hosting package to try and save money on the hosting bills.
We tried to do it on Saturday but there was …

IMPORTANT - Server Downtime on Saturday (Also - Happy Canada Day/Fourth of July!)

HippieVan at July 3, 2015, midnight

IMPORTANT:
Ozoneocean is scheduling some server down time for the early hours of Saturday morning LA time
The site should be very quiet then. he needs to shut it down so that he can sort out a cheaper hosting plan with our server host.
It shouldn't take more than an …

Thursdays With Banes - Contrast and Conflict

Banes at July 2, 2015, midnight

tags: Banes, contrast and conflict, thursdays with Banes

Ozoneocean has been goodly enough to let me participate on the DD front page on Thursdays. So I'll be jabbering here weekly and attempting to be

1. Entertaining and/or
2. Informative and/or
3. Punctual

It's a treat to get to do this, so thanks!

CONTRASTS

The first time I noticed …

FEATURED COMIC --> PreteenDemon

Ozoneocean at July 1, 2015, midnight

tags: FEATURED COMIC, PreteenDemon by Inkmonkey, rated T

Summary:
Jasomet is a little boy demon. He's been summoned by a Goonies type group of three guys to help rescue a lost girl from a strange cult that think might have kidnapped her. Old timey DDers might remember the name Jasomet… he was born from a relationship in the …

Quackcast 225 - To Fan-service or not to fan-service

Ozoneocean at June 30, 2015, midnight

tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Jabaru, kawaiidaigakusei, music for Grueson, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 225, To Fan-service or not to fan-service, Webcomics community

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- Art by Ozoneocean

Content:
Today Banes and I talk about the subject of fan service in comics (and other pop-culture). This Quackcast was inspired by a newspost by HippieVan of that same title. We're helped in our discussion by the really interesting contributions of many smart people on …

The Times They Are A-Changin'

kawaiidaigakusei at June 29, 2015, midnight

tags: Books, Canada, Day, Progress, Used

Five years ago I was sitting at a dinner table with an older, conservative crowd of family friends when the topic of same-sex marriage was brought up. I added my thoughts to the discussion with the best example of recent history I could muster up at that time. I said, …

Fan Service in Comics

HippieVan at June 26, 2015, midnight

This post was inspired ozoneocean's forum thread about sexism, as well as a recent update by JustNoPoint. (Quick note: none of my comments about fan service are directed at JNP's work! It was just his joking about fan service that had me thinking about it.)

"Fan service" can mean a …

FEATURED COMIC --> Jabaru

kawaiidaigakusei at June 24, 2015, midnight

tags: by, COMIC, E, FEATURED, Jabaru, rated

Four years after the disappearance of his father, Leo, a young boy with celestial dreams an imagination filled with fantasy winds up moving back into the old house that his family had left for the city. The house looks magical from the outside and it also has a mysterious attic …

QUACKCAST 224 - Finding your own voice as a writer

Ozoneocean at June 23, 2015, midnight

tags: aka Kevin Hayman, Banes, by Gunwallace, Drunk Duck, featured comic, Finding your own voice as a writer!, KOTA, music for Restless, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 224, Restless by trico, Webcomics community

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- Art by Kevin Hayman.

Content:
For Quackcast 224 I've asked Kevin Hayman back again (KOTA's world, Mailbox Rocketship, Erant Apprentice), to regale us with his Owen Wilson stylings…
But seriously, the topic is "finding your own voice in writing", i.e. learning not to imitate your hero's, move beyond …

2015 Drunk Duck Award Contest Voting

kawaiidaigakusei at June 22, 2015, midnight

tags: NOW, OPEN, VOTING

The window for the DD Award trophy design submissions is now closed. There are three stellar designs competing for the top spot. So now the outcome for the winning design is up to YOU!

VOTING will be open from June 22 (Monday) to June 24 (Wednesday).

Votes will be be …

Last Call - Trophies and Input for the 2015 DD awards!

HippieVan at June 19, 2015, midnight

A reminder - trophies for the DD awards must be submitted by June 21st! If you were planning to submit a design, now is the time to do it. Voting will follow on June 22-24.

Trophies can be submitted to this thread or sent to Niccea via PQ.

This is …

FEATURED COMIC --> Restless

Ozoneocean at June 17, 2015, midnight

tags: FEATURED COMIC, rated T, Restless by Trico

Summary:
While staying in a creepy old abandoned house, young Even meets a very unusual girl called Lilly… Lilly seems to be a ghost. the incident that resulted in their meeting links them together inextricably and will go on to lead to bigger and badder events down the line for …

QUACKCAST 223 - Collaborating with the Aliens

Ozoneocean at June 16, 2015, midnight

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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- Art from Albert the Alien.

Content:
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 …

Digging Deep

kawaiidaigakusei at June 15, 2015, midnight

There is a brand new piece of off-white coloured paper on the desk. The click of a GraphiGear mechanical pencil. The lead hitting the table. Tap. Tap. Tap. The need to draw is there, but the inspiration behind it makes it very difficult to create an image out of thin …