Once the honeymoon sheen of releasing your new project wears you can easily find yourself burnt out by the concept of having to muster the energy to continue working on it. Sometimes you might have written yourself into a corner or maybe you feel like you are not liking the ...
The slow grind that is webcomics and how to combat it
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Sept. 28, 2018Quackcast 379 - Troptastic
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 19, 2018 LISTEN!
ALL the tropes!!!!
Based on Emma Clare's newspost, tropes are damn useful but they can also be your undoing if you handle them badly. Tropes are shortcuts to meanings, scenes, procedures or jokes that take too long to set up in their own right. You can use them ...
It's Cold Outside
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2017
It's downright freezing out there - colder than the norm for this time of year (in recent years at least). And it's going to stay cold, they tell us.
Eeks!
So, comics artists, how do you DRAW “cold”?
There are a few ways that come to mind:
Mostly, I ...
Designing your Characters
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 9, 2017
So you have your kick ass story ready, you’ve researched your world well and feel comfortable in it, and you have an awesome set of personalities to equip your characters that will propagate your story (or complement it if the plot is story driven).
The only thing left to ...
HOME v. AWAY: where to work?
HyenaHell at 12:00AM, May 5, 2017
Typically I work on my comics and illustration at home in my studio. I know I'll have everything I need on hand, for one. Also I hate and mistrust almost everyone and everything, as working in the service industry for the majority of my adult life has left me ...
Quackcast 279 - Meet the Mutants!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 12, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Our very own heavily mutated Pitface put up a guest post about her fellow mutants, filling in for HippieVan while Hippy is away fighting the mutants in Japan wearing a tie-dyed sailor suit and riding a Volkswagen battle mecha, as you do in Japan… anyway, as ...
QUACKCAST 260 - D.U.C.K. Radio1
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 1, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
Welcome to D.U.C.K. Radio! Get ready for your DJs: Smooth Ramone, Hard rock Jimmy Storm (BRINING THE THUNDER!!!), Weatherman Rhet Blanket, Conspiracy theorist Smiley Fraudson, and hilarious* Maple and The Syrup (*they're not funny). This is the first part of Radio DUCK ...
FEATURED COMIC --> The weird adventures of Armless Amy
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 17, 2016
Little Amy is the cutest and sweetest little girl in the post-apocalypse. Of course, her adorable personality seems to attract the strangest of characters from a top hat wearing stranger, happy dolls, white rabbits, Sherry the living doll, Eloise, and Eustace.
This is a mature comic because it deviates from ...