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Episode 473 - Genre vs Setting

Ozoneocean at April 7, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk Duck, featured comic, featured theme, Genre vs Setting, Gunwallace, Just wanna do porn webcomics, O Sarilho, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 473, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

In this Quackcast we talk about the differences between genre and setting and what genre really is. For instance: Fantasy and SciFi aren't genres, they're settings… Mostly. It's complicated but they both pretty much USED to be genres, now they're mainly just settings for genre stories to take place in. What does that mean?
Well, Fantasy wasn't even considered a genre back in the day, not really till after the success of Tolkien. Later on a lot of writers began using that same style and consumers really wanted it, so it became a “genre”. It was only later on when it graduated out of that to become a setting that has genre stories set within it.

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Episode 472 - CoVid-19-cast

Ozoneocean at March 31, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, CoVid-19-cast, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Oh OK, Pit Face Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 472, Tantz Aerine, The Feelings of a High School Girl, Webcomics hosting

In this strange time of global pandemic it'd be crazy NOT to acknowledge what we're all experiencing together, so that's what we're talking about today: How the virus stuff is affecting us. Pitface joins us once again so today the quartet is complete: Pitz, Banes, Oz, and Tantz!

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Episode 471 - Fantasy

Ozoneocean at March 24, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk Duck, Fantasy, featured comic, featured theme, GALAXY ONE, Gunwallace, My Magic Grandpa, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 471, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

Today we're having a chat about fantasy fiction! Mainly books and the fantasy writing that inspired us and that we love! Faves like Tolkien, Fritz Leiber and Piers Anthony!

Just to define, we're talking swords, elves, armour, dragons etc, in a “medieval” context, generally European. As a subset there's native, Arabian, Asian, Mayan etc, also high fantasy, low fantasy, sword and sorcery, historical fantasy and even mythology….
And then techno fantasy, contemporary fantasy, steampunk, fantasy cyberpunk and so on… but we mainly stick to the mainstream stuff and only just touch on the weird little variations for now.

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Episode 470 - What stirred your creative juices?

Ozoneocean at March 17, 2020, midnight
tags: Chinese Diary, comics community, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 470, Sex Protectress Drunk duck, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting, What stirred your creative juices?

For this cast I'd thought we'd go through with our promise of last week and talk about things that have made us have a reaction as a creator. This expands on “The Cartoons that Date us” from last week. So today we're talking the creative media that gave you a reaction: Books, movies, comics, TV shows… Not what specifically inspired the comics you do now, but what drove you to create and why.

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Episode 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

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 to her, to me as well, and I thought it would be a great idea for a Quackcast to talk about the other cartoons that were influential to us at certain points in our lives.

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Episode 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

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 social media is more about communication, staying in contact, and finding out what's popular at the time rather than sharing creations and forming strong bonds.

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Episode 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

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 staying true to the original” or “the book was better”, but there are many times where the adaption is really interesting in its own right, even though it's quite different from what it started out as.

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Episode 466 - And then What?

Ozoneocean at Feb. 18, 2020, midnight
tags: And then What?, Banes, Coquin, Dru, featured comic, featured music, GeMiTo 2073, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 466, Tantz Aerine

What happens to characters after the big action scene or climactic moment? This could be anywhere in the story but it's usually close to the end. Do they process any of the things that have happened to them to lead them up to that point or do they just forget about everything and simply act as if nothing except the last 4 seconds matter?
The later seems to be the trend in a lot of badly written fiction, and it's a notable trope in 80s style action films. Death of family members or lovers are irrelevant when you have a hot action star standing next to you!

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Episode 465 - Planning Vs pantsing!

Ozoneocean at Feb. 11, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Dozer Manifesto, Drunk Duck, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, Planning Vs pantsing!, podcast, QUACKCAST 465, Tantz Aerine, The Second Crimean War, Webcomics community

There are a couple of approaches when it comes to making a big creative project: planing it all out or working things out as you go i.e. flying by the seat of your pants. Well in reality it's a spectrum and those are the two extremes. Most of us work somewhere between those two, sometimes with more or less planning etc… I've tried a lot of different mixtures myself!

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Episode 464 - The current digital art landscape

Ozoneocean at Feb. 4, 2020, midnight
tags: Arcadia Project, Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 464, Tag Forester’s theme, Tantz Aerine, The current digital art landscape, Webcomics hosting

I recently had to upgrade my main computer because Windows isn't supporting Windows 7 any longer and I don't want to install Windows 10 on the perfectly functioning old one in case it ruins it and my main programs can't run any longer… SO I had to get a new PC. This got me thinking though: The barrier to getting into digital art is lower now than ever!

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Episode 463 - Sexposition is not a new thing

Ozoneocean at Jan. 28, 2020, midnight
tags: ACCIDENTALS, Banes, Drunk Duck, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 463, Sexposition is not a new thing, Shrouded RD, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

Sexpostion is sex plus exposition, it's exposition with sex on the screen. Tantz Aerine addressed the topic of sexposition in an article last year, but what we're doing here is talking about the reason it even exists, why it isn't a new trend, and why it probably won't last.

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Episode 462 - Jessica Schab, Studio animation, Guru, sceptic, leader

Ozoneocean at Jan. 21, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Grey Sky Blue Moon, Gunwallace, Guru, Jessica Schab, kawaiidaigakusei, leader, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 462, sceptic, Studio animation, Tantz Aerine, The Red Moon, Webcomics hosting

Today we have a special guest! Jessica Schab. Jessica works for Mainframe entertainment in Canada, one of THE premier digital animation companies! Before things like Pixar they were THE CGI animation people! Behind the Video for Dire Straights' Money for Nothing video back in the 80s, Transformers Beastwars, Octonaughts, Babrie, and my personal fave: Reboot!

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Episode 461 - Top Comic making 5 tips!

Ozoneocean at Jan. 14, 2020, midnight
tags: banes, Drunk Duck, featured comic, featured theme, Feint, Gunwallace, Molly Lusc, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 461, The Watch Dogs, Top Comic making 5 tips!, Webcomics community

Today Banes and I chat about our top tips for doing a great comic page: What is most important? I mainly focus on art and Banes is talking about page design and writing tips. Bellow are our top 5s for ways to make better comics! We expand on these and explain them in the Quackcast.

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Episode 460 - Enough trope to hang yourself with

Ozoneocean at Jan. 7, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, Enough trope to hang yourself with, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 460, Runner, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Happy 2020 all you lovely people who listen to us!
What we're talking about today are tropes in fiction that bother us because they don't exist in reality: they ONLY exist in fiction pretty much. In the cover pic we have an image from The Witcher: he has two big longswords on his back. In fantasy people always carry longswords on their backs. This is a trope that only exists in fiction because you can't draw a sword longer than about 60cm from your back. So people just didn't carry swords like this. Even if it was only to transport them (although ta transport only option makes a sort of sense). This was only even rarely done with Asian swords.
We'd LOVE to hear about more of these that other people have noticed!

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Episode 459 - 2019 Year in review!

Ozoneocean at Dec. 29, 2019, 10:14 p.m.
tags: 2019 Year in review!, banes, Drunk Duck, featured comic, featured theme tune, Feint, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 459, Ripping Off King Arthur, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

It's been a great year! DD has continued to grow bit by bit, we've been stable and a great host for many many webcomics. DD is one of the only truly independent community focused webcomic hosting sites left. Most of the rest are commercial hubs that are not community centered.
Part of our commitment to the community on DD is showcasing our best webcomics every week, which we've been doing for 17 years now, and I've personally been doing that for about 13.

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