This week we interview Leonardo Da Abt Nihil, The Duck's very own renaissance man: Philosopher, scientist, self taught artist and writer, he is a man of many talents and lucky for us he posts the fruits of his labour on our site, many of which have been featured! Abt kindly agreed to be interviewed on his birthday, so Banes and I were finally have to do an in-depth talk with him and find out some of what makes him tick and at the same time celebrate that special day with him. So please listen and enjoy the melefluent tones of Abt's amazing voice and then GO and read some of his comics, especially Bombshell and Holon!

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic
Hephaestus - http://www.drunkduck.com/Hephaestus/

Links:
Our interview subject and birthday man:
- http://www.drunkduck.com/user/Abt_Nihil/
Abt's comics:
- http://www.drunkduck.com/Bombshell/
- http://www.drunkduck.com/Holon/
- http://www.drunkduck.com/AD_1997/
- http://www.drunkduck.com/Heroes_Alliance/
- http://www.drunkduck.com/signifikat/
- http://www.drunkduck.com/Eat_My_Shorts/
- http://www.drunkduck.com/mr_Sandman/
- http://www.drunkduck.com/Thrones_And_Dominions/

Earlier Quackcast appearance of Mr Abt Nihil:
- http://www.drunkduck.com/quackcast/episode-112-live-play-operation-moon

The manly, bearded, tall, testosterone fuelled, square jawed, steel eyed, muscular, hairy, sweaty, bare chested ladies-man and Quackcast co-presenter Banes:
- http://www.drunkduck.com/user/Banes

Continuing our technical Quackcast series, Banes and I talk about vector art illustration program Adobe Illustrator, what it is, what it does, and some of its uses in comic art. It's another one of those big, expensive, industry standard programs with a LOT of power and potential to do many different amazing and cool things that you'll never more than scratch the surface off in comic art, but what it DOES do in comics it pretty much does that better than anything else.
Next week we hope to interview the awesome, amazing, mysterious, and frequently featured Abt_Nihil!

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic
Blitz - http://www.drunkduck.com/Blitz/

Links:
Info about the program itself:
- http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html
The excellent work of MonkeyMafia (Tom Rainford) who uses vector art in most of his artwork:
- http://www.drunkduck.com/1_Dollar/
- http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Boy_and_the_Jar/
-http://monkey-mafia.deviantart.com/
My comic that I use Illustrator for:
- http://www.pinkyta.com
My lovely assistant Banes:
- http://www.drunkduck.com/user/Banes

This is another Quackcast in our technical series focussing on the stuff people use to make webcomics. This week we focus on the art program chiefly used by Banes in the making of his comic, Typical Strange, and that program is Toonboom studio! Toonboom is mainly for doing cell style digital animation but it's also pretty good for doing drawings and Banes tells us just exactly HOW.
Next week we'll be looking at Adobe Illustrator.

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic
Illuminia - http://www.drunkduck.com/Illuminia/

Links:
Toonboom Studio - https://www.toonboom.com/
Toonboom tutorials - http://toonbooming.com/
Banes' animated cartoon versions of his comic Typical Strange
- http://www.youtube.com/user/Banes500/featured
Banes' Toonboom made comic - http://www.drunkduck.com/Typical_Strange/

Summary:
Kevin Hayman is STLL Owen Wilson. In Quackcast 120 we have the extra bits that were nice and funny and reasonably webcomic focused still so we made another Quackcast out of it! We had LOTs of fun.There was a bit of salacious gossip that we had to cut out and some swearing, so there are some weird little non-sequitur bits in there, sorry about that!Anyway, Kevin is the creator of Kota's World, Mailbox Rocketship and Errant Apprentice as well as the
the great pop-culture focussed podcast DTWC (drawing the wrong conclusions)!
MEET KEVIN!-
Free comic book day at 3 Alarm comics on the 4th of May in Biloxi in Mississippi. If you’re in that part of Mississippi or Louisiana close to that area you should go on over and get some comics from there, meet Kevin and Zac who also does great comics and some pro Marvel and DC comic book artists as well!

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic
Cat Nine Take Two - http://www.drunkduck.com/Cat_Nine_Take_Two/

Kevin Hayman links:

Famous for Kota’s world - http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php?title=Kota%27s_World

New version, Mailbox Rocketship comic - http://www.drunkduck.com/Mailbox_Rocketship/

Works on DWTC podcast - http://www.nightgig.com/?p=1057

Video of Kevin working on EA - http://www.nightgig.com/?p=1062

Errant Apprentice comic -  http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Errant_Apprentice/

Errant Apprentice home site: http://olddyingkitty.com/errant_apprentice/

Banes, my pretty co-host - http://www.drunkduck.com/user/Banes

Owen Wilson. Owen Wilson. Owen Wilson: Kevin Hayman IS Owen Wilson, only better looking and twice as talented. Listen find out for yourself.
Kevin is a really interesting guy, he's been doing webcomics since they were a thing. His Kota's World ran from 2000-2005 (and a bit before that), it was one of the first comics on the old days of Drunk Duck! He's since moved on from that, now drawing both the very popular Errant Apprentice and the new reinvented version of Kota's World "Mailbox Rocketship", as well as working hard as the co-host of the great pop-culture focussed podcast DTWC (drawing the wrong conclusions), which is the successor to The Gigcast, which was the old unofficial podcast for Drunk Duck back in the day. Lots of history here people. History and talent! Kevin is an amazing guy and hard to contain within a single broadcast so next week we'll have part two of our little chat, as soon as I edit out all the swearing an salacious gossip (I am not joking).

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic
Blackened Rags - http://www.drunkduck.com/Blackened_Rags/

Kevin Hayman links:

Famous for Kota’s world - http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php?title=Kota%27s_World

New version, Mailbox Rocketship comic - http://www.drunkduck.com/Mailbox_Rocketship/

Works on DWTC podcast - http://www.nightgig.com/?p=1057

Video of Kevin working on EA - http://www.nightgig.com/?p=1062

Errant Apprentice comic -  http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Errant_Apprentice/

Errant Apprentice home site: http://olddyingkitty.com/errant_apprentice/

Banes, my pretty co-host - http://www.drunkduck.com/user/Banes