After a terrible bathroom flooding incident Modest Medusa was born. That's sort of the beginning of the story of Modest Medusa, but also how the comic began too! In this Quackcast I interview Jake Richmond, the creator of the very successful and popular Modest Medusa: a pretty amazing webcomic success story. Starting out at Drunk Duck with his comic in 2011 he's been able to quit his main day job and work on his comic full time! He does some freelancing and teaching as well, but his comic is his main source of income. That's awesome!
And this wasn't by luck either, or “being in the right place at the right time” that many have leveraged much of their success from, Jake got there though hard work and dedication to his readers. A real webcomic inspiration! This is the goal that every webcomicer should be aiming for and his success shows that it IS acheiveable! - Only IF you can put in that work though. It's not easy, no short-cuts.

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic:
Diexemor - http://theduckwebcomics.com/Diexemor/

Jake’s Links:
Modest Medusa on DD - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Modest_Medusa/5366559/
Support Modest Medusa:
Modest Medusa Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232860137/modest-medusa-season-3
Modest Medusa Patreon - http://www.patreon.com/JakeRichmond

Jakes Recommended reading list:
Split Screen by Jaymz - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Split_Screen/
- And the Split Screen Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaymzbernard/split-screen-graphic-novel
Star Drop by Mark Oakley - http://iboxpublishing.com/index.php
Fusion - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Essay_Bee_Comics_Presents_Fusion/
Princess Retribution by TriaElf9 - http://www.mangamagazine.net/manga-and-comics/Princess-Retribution/detail-page/5425?lang=en

Patreon - http://www.patreon.com
- Patronage site so artists can make money through micropayments.

Content:
It's one of the great tragedies of webcomics the way ‘real life’ so often gets in the way of our comic work. This Quackcast was inspired by HippieVan's newspost about webcomics that disappeared into the atmosphere or deadended into nowhere... Hippie joins Ozone and Banes to discuss the topic of comics ending before their time, comics we miss, comics we need closure from! Why do they end like that? Have you got abandoned work under your belt? Will you ever come back and finish it? What are some of your forgotten faves? Bellow are a list of ours

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic:
Cycle Bolt - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Cycle_Bolt/

Orphaned webcomics mentioned in the Quackcast:
A comic that celebrates orphaned comics- Anti featured by Locoma - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/ANTI_FEATURED/
The People that melt in the Rain by Carolyn - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_People_That_Melt_in_The_Rain/
Where you can buy copies - http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?contributorId=504737
Purgatory Tower by Silentkitty -  http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Purgatory_Tower/
The Hub by Hyena Hell - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Hub/
Emerald City - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Emerald_City/
Bzaar by ChrisMcVillain - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/BZAAR/
Eliada by kalliikak - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/eliada/
Minion by Hguyver - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Minion/
Lola by Alejkhan - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Lola/
Jump by Alejkhan - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Jump/
Clockwork Gods by Drifterxgs - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Clockwork_Gods/
Izzy Wonders around and does stuff by HippieVan - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Izzy_Wanders_Around_and_Does_Stuff/
Wake the Knight by Lackshmana - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Wake_the_Knight/

Come on board for the luurrrvcast! It's shining and new!
This is he second and final part of our lurvcast, where we asked contributors to give us their advice, wisdom and opinions on the treatment of love, romance and relationships in fiction within popular media. We had many great replies to Bane's interesting and insightful questions on the subject, which were:
How do you approach love, romance and relationships in your comics? Do you find it difficult to write this stuff? Is it easy? What do you like to see, love and relationship-wise, in the comics you read? Do you like it realistic? Angsty? Or do you like it more fantasy-based? What do you NOT like to see? What are some of the fictional couples/relationships you really like? Were there any you thought didn't work at all? Why?

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic:
Sin - http://theduckwebcomics.com/Sin_Issue1_The_Beating_of_The_Drums/

Our contributors:
Bravo1102- http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Bravo1102/
HippieVan - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/HippieVan/
Hawk - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Hawk/
Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean
KimLuster - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/KimLuster/
Usedbooks - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/usedbooks/
Cap'n Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes

Romance. Love. L'amour.
Ozone and I keep talking about getting the community engaged with our Quackcast topics - The ‘Casts that feature those community posts are always my favourite episodes by far! So we put these questions to our community to see how they'd respond:
How do you approach love, romance and relationships in your comics? Do you find it difficult to write this stuff? Is it easy? What do you like to see, love and relationship-wise, in the comics you read? Do you like it realistic? Angsty? Or do you like it more fantasy-based? What do you NOT like to see? What are some of the fictional couples/relationships you really like? Were there any you thought didn't work at all? Why?
The replies were interesting, engaging, and enlightening. So join us! All aboard for the LurrrrvCast!

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic:
August Landing - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/August_Landing/

Our contributors:
Genejoke - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Genejoke/
Call Me Tom - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Todd_Sweets/
Irrevenant - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/irrevenant/
Lady kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei
KimLuster - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/KimLuster/
Usedbooks - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/usedbooks/
Cap'n Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes