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Etz Chaim He - Inside Jokes

Banes at March 12, 2020, midnight
tags: banes, insidejokes, thursday



Webcomics don't need to follow rules.

They are often created by one person and don't need to answer to editors, publishers or money-type-people. They can be made by just you, and can be made for an audience of just a couple friends or relatives…or just for yourself!

They need not …

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QUACKCAST 469 - The cartoons that date us and Discord

Ozoneocean at March 10, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Discord, Drunk Duck, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 469, Sex Protectress, SillyCircle, Tantz Aerine, The cartoons that date us, Webcomics community

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We're talking about the cartoons that made us! This was inspired by kawaiidaigakusei's newspost from last week about Daria. Daria was a really cool cartoon from the late 90s. It was influential …

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How Dairy Not Tip the Waiter!

kawaiidaigakusei at March 9, 2020, midnight


(What an udder failure.)

Do you like puns?

I love puns.

I once entered a pun contest and I wrote ten different puns, but at the end, none of them won.

That is correct. No pun, in ten, did.

In complete honesty, puns are one of my weaknesses. I love …

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Breaking points

Emma_Clare at March 6, 2020, midnight
tags: creation, DrunkDuck, narrative, stories, webcomic



A breaking point for a character is when they hit their lowest point in the story. It’s purpose is to upset the reader, either making them angry and/or devastated the main character or they’ll be angry/devastated at the main character. Every story, in every genre has a breaking point. It’s …

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Expressing Theme part 2

Banes at March 5, 2020, midnight
tags: banes, theme, thursday, writing



So, last week we talked about theme, and how it is generally expressed through the Protagonist in a given story, as they struggle through whatever type of conflict is appropriate to that tale. We had a few common examples of themes:

-Love conquers all

-The strongest or most determined will …

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QUACKCAST 468 - Online communities and the friendships that are part of them

Ozoneocean at March 3, 2020, midnight
tags: comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Invasive Species, kawaiidaigakusei, Magiversity for Lonnehart, Online communities and the friendships, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 468, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

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The nature of online communities and making connections with people you meet in them is quite different from what happens with "social media". The connections are deeper and longer lasting while …

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The Cartoons that Raised Us: Daria (1997-2002)

kawaiidaigakusei at March 2, 2020, midnight



In the late nineties, mTV answered the call for the need of a high school student that was not centered around the cheerleading squad or the football jocks with Daria. Luckily, I was in junior high, living in the Southern California suburbs around the debut of the series, which meant …

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Expressing Theme

Banes at Feb. 27, 2020, midnight
tags: banes, theme, thursday



We've talked before about theme in these Newsposts.

Many people know what a theme is, but just to set it up right, theme is what a story is about, on a deeper level. It's about the journey the character is taking. It's the larger "point" of the story, and …

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QUACKCAST 467 - Adaptions and Transmogrification!

Ozoneocean at Feb. 25, 2020, midnight
tags: Adaptions and Transmogrification of stories, Banes, Drunk Duck, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Hyperbolic Fabrications Presents, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 467, Tantz Aerine, TRUMPed, Webcomics community

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The process of adaptation is quite interesting. Stories go through all sorts of changes when they're transferred from one medium to another. A lot of the time we bemoan that as "not …

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