Creator Interviews Are Coming Back!

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 25, 2025



So I slacked a lot in getting interviews prepared for our awesome webcomic artists here on the Duck, but that is going to be remedied!

I'm trying to find a way to establish regularity for all the features for showcasing DDers and their webcomics that I've been handling ...



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This and That (the power of contrast)

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 23, 2025



One of the main drivers of story is the principle of CONTRAST.

A character in a traditional story arc begins one way and ends up in a very different state of being - the underdog to the victorious hero, or the innocent, unaware victim to the final survivor, or the selfish ...



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Quackcast 723 - Changing tech and design

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 21, 2025

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We're talking about how technology and design changes so much over the years and how that can change things with plot in story and it can also help pinpoint the date of something sometimes better than ...


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Advice I Would Give to My Younger Self

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 20, 2025


Photo: “Mies Couch”. Drawn by Plymayer. (January 2025)

I rewatched two-thirds of Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy, skipping over the first film of the series to focus on the latter two. The trilogy consists of Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight each film spaced roughly a decade apart. The ...


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Preventable Deaths

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 18, 2025




There's nothing more frustrating when a character dies from a situation that had no reason occuring except perhaps that the writers wanted to be edgy and make the story have more gravitas with a random death that's forced into the plot.

I've talked often over the years ...




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The Break Into 3

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 16, 2025



Last Week we looked at the “Break Into 2”, the transition between the beginning of a story: The “Before” picture of the Protagonist and their world, and the “Upside Down World” of Act 2.

So, a little later in your average story will come the “Break Into 3”. This leaves ...



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FEATURED COMIC --> TEMPERAMENTAL

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 15, 2025



There's dark things going on, bad things are resurfacing as restless blood-soaked ghostly visions disturb the present and threaten to drag people back to trauma's past… Just what happened back then? And will it break those in the present? The art is all digital, very well drawn, stylised ...

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Quackcast 722 - Main characters with main character syndrome

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 14, 2025

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Main characters with main character syndrome? What is main character syndrome? Well the way we're dealing with it here it's normally a snide criticism you level and someone who seems to think the world revolves ...


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