Tue, 21 March 2023
Today its another technical comics making focused cast, suggested by Tantz Aerine! We cover our notions about how to maintain character consistency and consistency in general, plus a bit on speech bubbles and the text in them. I was SOOPER tired towards the end though so I wasn't all there mentally but the guys carried it through admirably.
Direct download: Quackcast_627_-_Character_consistency_and_speech_bubble.mp3
Category:Webcomics -- posted at: 12:00am PDT
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Tue, 14 March 2023
Today we talk about an unusual type of villain, a secret type of bad guy and a particularly nasty one: the person who maliciously does nothing. This is a person who COULD intervene to resolve a dire situation or save someone, they could do it easily; they know how, they have the means, they're not scared or unsure, and it doesn't mean much risk to themselves, they just choose to sit back and watch the person die or the situation collapse… either because they know the result will benefit themselves or they're just curious to watch the person die or the everything turn to crap for the victim or whatever. Either way they COULD easily intervene but they choose not to.
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Tue, 7 March 2023
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Tue, 28 February 2023
HPKomic is a great guy, he's been on DD since almost the beginning. He alternates the Friday newsposts with me, he focusses on the intricacies of comic panels. This time he asked people to talk about their own processes though and I thought this would be a good topic for a Quackcast!
Direct download: Quackcast_624_-_Comic_panel_creation.mp3
Category:Webcomics -- posted at: 12:00am PDT
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Tue, 21 February 2023
Arrogance is a fun subject. Related to cockiness, hubris, assertiveness, self confidence and pride.
Direct download: Quackcast_623_-__Arrogance_vs_humility.mp3
Category:Webcomics -- posted at: 12:00am PDT
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Tue, 14 February 2023
This is when the writer leads you to think something big has happened in the story, like a character dying or falling in love or winning a big prize or something, only to have the character alive in the next part, or the prize or love never mentioned or addressed- this is “schmuck bait”.
Direct download: Quackcast_622_-_Whaddaya_take_me_for.mp3
Category:Webcomics -- posted at: 12:00am PDT
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Tue, 7 February 2023
Toxic positivity can take all sorts of forms, but I think it's most easily recognised by someone telling you to be happy about something when you just don't feel it. It's a really odd, nasty, weird feeling when a person tells you you're basically not allowed to be grumpy or even neutral, you MUST be happy. How many times have we all been told to “smile” by someone?
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Tue, 31 January 2023
My idea was to talk about social pariah characters, people who it's socially acceptable to laugh at, despise, or even hate. They can be the uncool people, the dorks, the dags, the idiots, the overweight, the ugly, the old, the out of touch, the over the hill… On the extreme end they could be monsters and criminals. Generally they're written pretty two dimensionally as a collection of cliches, but when the writing goes beyond that to lend them humanity is when it goes to the next level.
Direct download: Quackcast_620_-_losers_are_human_too.mp3
Category:Webcomics -- posted at: 12:00am PDT
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Tue, 24 January 2023
Talking about AI again but this time our subject is different: Does it have a negative influence on culture?
Direct download: Quackcast_619_-_Artificial_culture.mp3
Category:Webcomics -- posted at: 12:00am PDT
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Tue, 17 January 2023
The Saying goes that The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence. Envy and jealously are destructive, negative feelings that either lead to bad outcomes or just make you feel pretty crappy. It especially affects creators! We get down about our artwork, our writing, the popularity of someone else's comic etc and we wish WE were as good as them and wonder why we aren't… maybe we're just not as good? If we could only just have their talent, their luck, their skill then WE'D be awesome too. it's just not fair…
Direct download: Quackcast_618_-_The_grass_is_always_Greener.mp3
Category:Webcomics -- posted at: 12:00am PDT
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Tue, 10 January 2023
Adventure is a fun genre! Not as many things get made for it these days but it used to be hugely popular in the past. It's one of my favourite genres and this is what we're chatting about for the Quackcast. What IS adventure? I think it usually involves a whole lot of different things like exploration, action, discovery, heroic protagonists, rivals, travel, exotic places, fights etc. It can be set in the past or in the modern day. Good examples are The Mummy, Indiana Jones, the original Tomb Raider, the two new Jumanji films, Strange World, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ducktales, Tailspin, Jungle Cruise, Uncharted and so much more. I'd love to know your faves!
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Tue, 3 January 2023
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