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Episode 188 - Shoot'n the Breeze

Ozoneocean at Oct. 14, 2014, midnight
tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, DD community Webcomics podcast, Featured comic, music for Typical Strange, ozoneocean, Pitface, Quackcast 188, Shoot'n the Breeze, Tantz Aerine, the Gimblians

Hellooooo people! I'd like to welcome you to the release of our début album! We got Banze on vibes, Tantz on bouzouki, Ozone on the fart flute, and Pit on the butt-bongos! Seriously though, this is another in our on-going series of catchup chats with a couple of our fave collaborators to catch up and talk shop about webcomicing. Pit and Tantz are always great value guests and tell the best fart stories.

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Episode 187 - Epilogue for the 2014 DD Awards with Niccea

Ozoneocean at Oct. 7, 2014, midnight
tags: by Gunwallace, DD community Webcomics podcast, Epilogue for the 2014 DD Awards, music for Jupiter, Niccea, ozoneocean, Quackcast 187, The Rat

As an Epilogue to the fantastic 2014 DD Awards I interviewed Niccea, who did all the main wrangling and organising behind and in front of the scenes on the awards to try and make them happen. And make them happen she DID. The 2014 DD comic awards were a smashing success, with great, high quality contributions by many people as well as great help judging and organising. The annual DD Awards turn into a great little community project with everyone vying to compete to be the best in heir comic categories as well as to try and get new readers through the recognition that the awards provide them. The competition between the presenters is also something that results in some great work. So HOORAY for another successful DD awards!

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Episode 186 - X-men of the galaxy wintersoldier

Ozoneocean at Sept. 30, 2014, midnight
tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, DD Awards 2014, DD community Webcomics podcast, music for Hocusha, ozoneocean, Quackcast 186, X-men of the galaxy wintersoldier

No more pre-recorded Quackcasts… Ozoneocean is BACK from Europe! For this Quackcast Banes and Ozone chat about 3 superhero films… well, more like two because BANES bloody didn't see Guardians of the Galaxy! The bastard. Anyway, Ozone and Banes have a bit of a talk about these films and give them a rating out of five. They were all good films pretty much, some better than others, Banes and Ozone talk about the things that worked best, the things that didn't work, and which films were their faves. SPOILER- the film starting with G was THE best out of the 3 by a looooong way!!!!

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Episode 185 - Mean Joe Genejoke

Ozoneocean at Sept. 23, 2014, midnight
tags: Banes, by Gunwallace, DD community Webcomics podcast, Genejoke, Hello Albertosaurus, Mean Joe Genejoke, music for The Chronicles of Bucky O'Neill, Quackcast 185, reviewed by Kawaiidagakusei

In this episode, Banes and Genejoke are the sole and only hosts! They work diligently to review a couple of Drunk Duck comics: Utterly Rucked aaaaaaaaaand Pinky TA! (oh yeah, we went there!) "Ocean Ozone does enjoy drawing the ass!". Banes and Genejoke give us hilarious and in-depth overviews of both Gunwallace's Rugby themed whodunnit and Ozoneocean's TA themed action adventure story, along with a bonus Texan style satirical roasting of Pinky TA just for laughs. Kawaii delivers a slick, professional review of the featured comic Hello Albertosaurus, and Gunwallce give us a spot on '80s videogame musical theme for the comic The Chronicles of Bucky O'Neill by Demongrinder.

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Episode 184 - The Trevor Mueller Hour

Ozoneocean at Sept. 16, 2014, midnight
tags: Albert the alien, All Unicorns to Battle Stations, Banes, DD community Webcomics podcast, featured comic Blood Bound, Gunwallace theme, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 184, The Trevor Mueller Hour

Trevor A Meuller, author of many astounding comics including Albert The Alien, @$$hole and Temple of a Thousand Tears came on to tell us about some of the different projects he's working. Banes and I were highly impressed by his professional approach and his amazing radio voice! Trevor is a Drunk Duck graduate who you might remember working on @$$hole and Temple of a Thousand Tears in the early days, he's since moved on to bigger and better things, working with the award winning artist and colourist artist Gabriel Bautista Jr on the gorgeous all ages comic Albert The Alien. He's also involved in the great comics based educational reading initiative readingwithpctures.com as well as may other joint projects. he's definitely worth listing to for his exciting motivated approach and the advice he has to offer beginners in the field.

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Episode 183 - Work Life balance

Ozoneocean at Sept. 9, 2014, midnight
tags: All Unicorns to Battle Stations, Banes, DD community Webcomics podcast, Gunwallace theme for Dinnersaurus Rex, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 183, Work Life balance

This Quackcast topic was inspired by a newspost by Kawaiidaigakusei who described a short autobiographical account of her own experiences managing the difficult work/life balance of doing webcomics online and at the same time having a normal life otherwise. How do you balance those? What do you sacrifice to keep a comic going? Is it worth it? In this Quackcast we discuss those aspects, as well as some saucy banter to begin with…

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Episode 182 - Biggest mistakes made in starting a webcomic

Ozoneocean at Sept. 2, 2014, midnight
tags: Banes, Biggest mistakes, DD community Webcomics podcast, Gunwallace theme for Master the Tiger, in starting a webcomic, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 182, The Knight Watchman in The Crime Cook

This Quackcast came about in response to an article that was supposed to be about the biggest mistakes in starting out with a webcomic, I felt it was incredibly superficial and that it was mainly focussed on someone who wanted to go straight for the “pro” side, jump right in and make it BIG right away… The trouble is that there's WAAAAAAY more to the subject than that! Hence this Quackcast on the subject. I've seen thousands of webcomics come and go over the years, most fizzle out in the first few weeks or months for a whole lot of reasons, but even the ones that have staying power still run into many issues at the beginning. Here we cover a lot of the big mistakes webcomic creators make early on. We've also got some great contributions too!

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Episode 181 - Colour your world! part 2

Ozoneocean at Aug. 26, 2014, midnight
tags: Banes, Colour your world, DD community Webcomics podcast, Gunwallace theme for Supermassive Black Hole, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, part 2, Quackcast 181, Wastlanders Anonymous

This is part 2 and the final of our look at advanced colouring techniques. This week we had even more heavy hitters with fantastic ability and skill weighing in on the topic of colouring. These guys can teach us a LOT! We like to do these technical Quackcast subjects to hopefully help people improve their comicing skills and it's great to have people sharing the wisdom of what they've learned while they've been making comics themselves and spreading it around to the rest of us!

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Episode 180 - Colour your world! part 1

Ozoneocean at Aug. 19, 2014, midnight
tags: Banes, Colour your world, DD community Webcomics podcast, Gunwallace theme for cultureshock, Jupiter, Ozoneocean, part 1, Quackcast 180

For this week's Quackcast I asked people what colour techniques they use and BOY was I surprised by the high calibre of the responses! We had some heavy hitter contributions, people with colour skill beyond what I can conceive of, and I'm no slouch myself when it comes to colouring. We had such good contributions and the subject is so complex that that we decided to split it over two parts so we can properly discuss this very technical concept: COLOUR!
Colouring is an important and advanced skill when it comes to comic art. At the most basic level you can restrict yourself to a simple palette with no shading or tones, if you want to be more advanced though there is no limit to how complex you can get. Hopefully the advice presented here can help you with your artwork!

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Episode 179 - Token representation in comics

Ozoneocean at Aug. 12, 2014, midnight
tags: Banes, DD community Webcomics podcast, Dinnersaurus Rex, Gunwallace theme for Robofemoids, HippieVan, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 179, Token representation in comics

There's no question in my opinion as to whether representation of different kinds of people in fiction matters. Having spent my childhood poring over superhero comics in which the girl's job is usually to turn invisible and press a button or something, I remember being impressed and delighted by some of the badass female characters in The Spirit. Lady-people could be cool, too?!
Is it insulting when comics add token characters to their line up, or does it really make a difference? And what makes a token character anyways?
-HippieVan.
Banes, HippieVan and I focus on the subject of token representation in media, mainly comics. This discussion was inspired by a newspost HippieVan made in response to a new character in the Archie comic, which got a lot of interesting responses.

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Episode 178 - thematical thematology

Ozoneocean at Aug. 5, 2014, midnight
tags: Banes, DD community Webcomics podcast, Gunwallace theme for Simply Sarah, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 178, The Fall of God, thematical thematology

For this DD webcomics podcast, Quackcast 178, we talk about THEMES. And no, we're not talking about those fine musical tracks that Gunwallace has been making for our comics. Theme is what's happening below the surface plot of a story. Plot is the events that happen, and theme is what it all means. We asked people What they thought about themes in their work, how they approach them, do you put themes in there on purpose, or does it happen by accident? Is a theme even necessary? We also asked people to talk about some of the themes in their work. We had some very interesting contributions. Themes in stories in comics, movies, TV shows and books are not things we tend to think about that much unless we're trying to be clever but they're an all pervasive and important part of any story nevertheless!

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Episode 177 - Charby the Vampirate forever!

Ozoneocean at July 29, 2014, midnight
tags: Amelius, Banes, Charby the Vampirate forever, DD community podcast, Evil Emperor Nick, Gunwallace music, May the Rain Come theme music, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 177

Guess who we had on THIS week? It was Amelius and Evil Emperor Nick! The husband and wife powerhouse behind some very popular comics on DD including Charby The Vampirate and Cwen's Quest. We haven't had them on since Quackcast 10 and 11 which have unfortunately been totally wiped from the interwebs… But that doesn't matter so much since you can hear them both afresh now and they have some goo stuff to say, including talking about the newly revamped version of Charby on charbythevampirate.com that's only up to 50 or so pages as well as the new related project Here there be monsters. We apologise for some slight technical difficulties, but Amy and Nick were good sports anyway and it was a an enjoyable interview!

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Episode 176 - Endings, part 3

Ozoneocean at July 22, 2014, midnight
tags: banes, DD community podcast, Endings, Gunwallace music, ozoneocean, part 3, Quackcast 176, Tiziana theme music

For our FINAL part of our discussion of story endings we talk about yet MORE ending tropes, methods and styles. In a fit of towering arrogance and indefensible pomposity we even trash the mighty Shakespeare for his ending of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet! Our contributors offered up some truly interesting perspectives on the matter or constructing story endings and we give them their due respect by reading them out in strange voices…
As I've said in all of these so far: writing the end of a story is the hardest part so we hope to provide some clues on how to write a good one. Ad with that we reach the END of our exploration of ends!
Next week we interview AMY and Nick from CHARBY THE VAMPIRATE!!!

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Episode 175 - Endings, part 2

Ozoneocean at July 15, 2014, midnight
tags: banes, DD community podcast, Endings, Gunwallace music, ozoneocean, part 2, Quackcast 175, Without Moonlight theme music

Arrrr, this be the second part of our discussion on writing ENDINGS in stories of all kinds, particularly for webcomics! But we discuss a few movie and TV endings here, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, No Country For Old Men, True Detective, and Dexter to name a few.
Writings endings is the hardest part of the writing process, so it's lucky we had some wise contributions from people on how to do a good job of it! As well as giving examples of likes and dislikes… This is the second in our 3 part series on endings!
I must apologise for the low quality of the recording here, there were very weird delay and repeating effects going on, Banes seems to be singing his own little madrigal at a couple of points. There are a a few parts I had to rerecord later; just a warning about the change of style.

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Episode 174 - Endings, part 1

Ozoneocean at July 8, 2014, midnight
tags: banes, DD community podcast, Endings, Everyone Laughs at the Crocodile Man theme music, Gunwallace music, Legend of Briva, ozoneocean, part 1, Quackcast 174

This is the end, Beautiful friend, This is the end, My only friend, the end… so drones Jim Morrison in the classic Doors song, but this isn't the end, rather it's a Quackcast ABOUT endings! Today we talk about the ends of stories: how do your write good ones? What makes a good ending? What makes a bad ending? What do you hate? What do you love? Well, many people had something to say on this topic of endings, and it's a very useful subject because ending a story is the hardest part of writing it! We could all use a bit of help in this regard, so listen in for tips and tricks in part one of Endings, a 3 parter! Our very first one!!!

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