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Episode 398 - The sum of all Fears

Ozoneocean at Oct. 30, 2018, midnight
tags: 99, Banes, Emma Clare, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Halloween, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Paladins, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 398, Tales of Schlock, Tantz Aerine, The sum of all Fears, Webcomics community

This week in the Quackcast we were going to talk about fear in general. What are we afraid of? Why do we like or do not like media that may reflect these fears or lead us to new ones? How do such things inspire fear or similar reactions within us. DO we like horror because we like fear to an extent? It's that Halloween time of year once again so it's time to focus on such things. We had Emma Clare on board as well! Oh it was going to be so amazing and fun! Little did we know…

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Episode 397 - Horror Comics

Ozoneocean at Oct. 23, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Hacking Human, Horror Comics, Kirsha Brackets, Ozoneocean, podcast, Ptface, Quackcast 397, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

Fear: What are we afraid of? Why do we like or do not like media that may reflect these fears or lead us to new ones? How do such comics inspire fear or similar reactions within us. DO we like horror because we like fear to an extent? This Quackcast is about horror comics, how they work and why we like them. We chat about many of the horror comics on DD.

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Episode 396 - Amelius and Patreon

Ozoneocean at Oct. 16, 2018, midnight
tags: Amelius and Patreon, Charby the Vampirate, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Metamorphosis Protocal, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 396, Smell the Roses, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

Amelius of the magnificent and eternal Charby The Vampirate returns to the Quackcast today! Amelius was the first person we every interviewed and Charby the Vampirate has been on Drunk Duck exactly as long as Pinky TA: since January 2004! Tantz and I chat to her about the new Patreon she has going for Charby and all the amazing bonus perks you can get on it. If you're a Charby fan you should definitely get in on that. Amelius has also agreed to join us on DD to do newsposts every week! So you will be seeing some cool content from her regularly. She has a LOT of comic making experience to impart.

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Episode 395 - Fighting ladies

Ozoneocean at Oct. 9, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, Dolphin Bros, featured comic, featured theme, Fighting ladies, Glass Rafters, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 395, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

Fighting ladies, female bad-ass characters… There are a lot more of them around now, but once upon a time they were pretty thin on the ground. I love a good badarse lady, my own comic character Pinky TA exemplifies that character type. There's something about a tough lady who can kick butt with the best of them that's especially compelling. They evolved from something a little more exploitative, ladies fighting in bikinis basically, then we had ladies that were just the female version of a male character (Batwoman, Supergirl etc), which is something we're starting to see a little more of unfortunately, but on the good side of things we ARE actually getting fighting ladies who're their OWN women: Original characters. In this Quackcast we talk about some of our faves and some of the earlier incarnations of the character type, from Robert E Howard's Red Sonya and Valeria, to Catherine L Moore's Jirel of Joiry, to Wonder woman, then later characters like Red Sonja (from the comics), She-Hulk, Sarah Conner, Ripley, Buffy, Xena, Aeon Flux…
What are some of YOUR faves?
Mine are Tank Girl, Lara Croft, Motoko Kusanagi, Garnet and many more :)

This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Dolphin Bros: Jump, jump, jump up and down to this mad dolphin party scene. It’s all over the place but all it wants you to do is MOVE!

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Episode 394 - Nostalgia, creative fuel?

Ozoneocean at Oct. 2, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, creative fuel, Drunk Duck Awards 2018, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Metal Ice Cream, Nostalgia, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 394, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

Nostalgia! - Where does it fit in the creative process? People are the product of their influences. For a lot of us the strongest influences happen when we're growing up and learning about the world and all the things IN it for the first time. As you get older the things you experience don't make as much impact, simply because your brain has already had most of its “first times” and it's already learned enough about the world to be fully functional and independent.

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Episode 393 - Set the scene!

Ozoneocean at Sept. 25, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, One Sixth Stories, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 393, Salamander, Set the scene, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

In THIS Quackcast we chat about shots! The kind you get from a camera… Long short, bird's eye view, worm's eye view, high angle, low angle, wide angle, fish eye, close up, ultra close up… You can use them to set the pace of the narrative, increase drama, reveal or conceal elements and so on. Shot types and angles are really important in story crafting. This was based on a newspost by Banes.
I was actually IN Athens in Greece sitting next to Tantz Aerine for this Quackcast. It was cool to be in the same place with at least ONE of our fellow casters. Banes was still in Canada and Pit was in London, making a very brief cameo appearance at the very end.

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Episode 392 - Outside hobbies

Ozoneocean at Sept. 18, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Kirsha Brackets, Outside hobbies, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 392, Starship Captain II, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

In this Quackcast we chat about what interests we have outside of webcomics and we want to know what YOU do as well. What are your hobbies and interests? Our interests and hobbies really inform what we do as comic creators in all sorts of ways, it can be fascinating to learn about what drives a person and what led them to be where they are now. For Banes it was music, keyboards, drums, magic and ventriloquism. For Tantz it's writing and a fascination with surgery. For Pit it's archaeology, heavy metal, and art. For me it's making, art, costume and sewing. What about you?

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Episode 391 - personality mix group dynamics

Ozoneocean at Sept. 11, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Ink LaRue, Ozoneocean, Personality mix group dynamics, Pitface, podcast, Quackast 391, Somnia, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

This Quackcast was based on an idea from Banes. We chat about designing a group of characters with complementary temperaments. In Banes' own words:
“I like the idea of the line between a logical, left brained person and a creative, right brained person, crossed with a spectrum of a more active, extroverted, action taking temperament and a more nurturing, introverted type.

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Episode 390 - Imprinting on your characters

Ozoneocean at Sept. 4, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, Crypts and Cantrips, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Imprinting on your characters, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 390, Tainted Eden, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

We nicked the idea for this Quackcast from a newspost by Emma Clare. What we chat about is the unintentional process of giving your characters you own traits or even traits of people you know without realising it: Every time you draw an expression for your character you're not really creating a generic expression but basing it on yourself… when you character is being quizzical or irritated for example people may recognise that as you. It could be in other things too: their taste, the way they dress, what they like to eat, their furniture. things that annoy them, their hobbies etc. It's interesting how tied they are to us.

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Episode 389 - Intimidating Baddies

Ozoneocean at Aug. 28, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, Crypts and Cantrips, featured comic, featured theme, Fluffy 500, Gunwallace, Intimidating Baddies, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackast 389, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

What makes bad guy intimidating? Tantz Aerine made a great newspost about the question, carefully outlining various key bad-guy properties like confidence, composure, efficiency, and amorality. Banes, Pitface, Tantz and I stomp ALL over that, traipsing about like drunken, muddy rugby players, as we blather on about our opinions of the idea and finish up with no idea what we're talking about…

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Episode 388 - Coding for Men and women

Ozoneocean at Aug. 21, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, Coding for Men and women, Faded Garden, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Mob ties, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 388, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

In this Quackcast we discuss the artistic coding used to represent males and females in comic art in a simple, minimal way. Pitface joins us, along with Banes and Tantz Aerine!
Much like an expert physicist is able to simplify enormously complex equations into something seemingly simple like E=MC2 a good comic artist simplifies the essence of what they're drawing into something that's immediately recognisable without a lot of complexity. We're mainly talking here in terms of drawing men and women. It sounds like the most basic, silly thing, but even pros with years of experience have trouble with it. Some of the art for the new She-Ra cartoon is a great example of that.

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Episode 387 - History and Pastiche

Ozoneocean at Aug. 14, 2018, midnight
tags: featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, history and pastiche, It's Permanent, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 387, Quixote Coyote, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

In this Quackcast Tantz and I chat about the differences between working with historical settings and the different approaches we take. Tantz's comics (Without Moonlight and Brave Resistance), are both set in a real period of history: Nazi occupied Greece during WW2. Pinky TA is set in the 1920s in an alternative version of history, with Pinky coming from the fictional “Crimean Empire”. Tantz has to keep times, places, and details close to real history while with Pinky TA I can pick and choose the things from history I like the best and create my own idealised pastiche. The advantage of Tantz's approach is that everything is there, nothing has to be invented, just researched and reproduced, whereas my approach involves a lot of creation which slows things down and makes it harder. On the upside Pinky TA is much more flexible, I can easily fit whatever I want into the story, whereas Tantz's comics are bound by the rules of the history she's presenting.

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Episode 386 - These are the books that made us

Ozoneocean at Aug. 7, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, Cataclysm 2, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, One Heart, Ozoneocean, podcast, Quackcast 386, Tantz Aerine, These are the books that made us, Webcomics community

In this Quackcast Tantz, Banes and I have a chat about the novels that influenced us when we were growing up. Each of us barely even touch on them but we do bring up some interesting titles… for Tantz it was the sexy comic Storm and the novel The gods of Foxcroft, for me it was the high fantasy of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, and later on SciFi by writer like Tanith Lee and her Don't bite the Sun and Drinking Sapphire Wine- both of which were very prophetic novels in the way they deal with hedonistic youth culture and the modern phenomenon of adults having extended childhoods while outsourcing more and more adult tasks to technology.
What were some of your most influential novels when growing up?

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Episode 385 - Drawing the line

Ozoneocean at July 31, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, Drawing the line, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, Ink LaRue, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, Quackcast 385, Savannah Cat Adventures, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

In this Quackcast we talk about where the line is for YOU in your work about what subjects and imagery are too far for you. What is too horrible, too controversial, too extreme for you to approach? Is it blood and gore, something controversial and political, swearing, religious, sexual? Maybe you have other borders… perhaps something is too cute, sickly sweet and saccharine?

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Episode 384 - Brandcast, PR

Ozoneocean at July 24, 2018, midnight
tags: Banes, Brandcast, Electricity is her Element, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pitface, podcast, PR, Quackcast 384, Stop Watchers, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

You may have read about how a conspiracy theorist dug up some 10 year old tweeted jokes by director James Gunn and got him fired from Disney… Well that incident inspired this Quackcast, which is a re-take on the whole personal brand idea that we discussed in Quackcast 289.

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