The Drunk Duck Quackcast

By Ozoneocean

What's The Drunk Duck Quackcast about?

The QuackCast is a theduckwebcomics.com podcast hosted by Ozoneocean, Banes and Tantz Aerine who run DrunkDuck, the oldest Webcomic hosting site on the net! They chat about all things webcomics, writing and art techniques, social and cultural issues, pop-culture, and a whole variety of interesting subjects!

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The Drunk Duck Quackcast episodes:

06.11.2024
Quackcast 691 - Thirst Trap
Thirst trap is the topic of today's Quackcast! What is a thirst trap? It's basically someone presenting themselves as very sexy in order to get attention for some sort of reason, rather than just happening to look attractive. So it's...
06.04.2024
Quackcast 690 - Mister V, Dozer Manifesto
Mister V, aka Arborcides is our guest today, doing an interview with us about his huge project “Dozer Manifesto”, now finally completed! You can read the entire thing here on DD. It's about a fellow called Marv Heemeyer, resident of...
05.28.2024
Quackcast 689 - One Big Passion and Influence
What was one significant inspiring piece of pop-culture that a massive influence over your creative endeavours? All of us have had many, many different influences over the years but that's certainly NOT what we're interested in here, what we're talking...
05.21.2024
Quackcast 688 - Artistic Evolution
How and why does your creativity change over time? It “evolves”. Evolution is often wrongly thought of as a process that leads to a goal, like the idea that humans are the pinnacle of evolution, or that we will “evolve”...
05.14.2024
Quackcast 687 - ...a very special episode
This isn't really a special episode! It's a Quackcast about them. Not PSA episodes though. Our topic was inspired by those weird special non-sequitur episodes in anime and manga like the famous bikini episode where all the characters head off...
05.07.2024
Quackcast 686 - May the fourth be with you
We recorded the Quackcast on the 4th of May, which of course means that it was “May the fourth”, the Star Wars celebration date! So we decided to talk about Star Wars, but instead of our usual rants about what...
04.30.2024
Quackcast 685 - mantle
“Passing the mantle” is an interesting phrase. Many claim it comes from a biblical origin; the prophet Elijah was said to have passed his mantle to Elisha when he ascended to heaven, thereby symbolically transferring his authority… but honestly that...
04.23.2024
Quackcast 684 - The hero is dead?
What happens when the hero dies? Especially when it's early on in the story… do things fall apart or does someone else take over? Our topic is about a story style where you establish that a character is the hero...
04.16.2024
Quackcast 683 - Hot for Teacher
This week it's a short cast because my computer broke and we wasted time trying to fix it! We're chatting about teachers in fiction, a topic inspired by Banes' newspost on the subject. There have been many memorable teacher based...
04.09.2024
Quackcast 682 - Exposition!
Tantz came up with this week's topic: Exposition! It's because she's well on her way into starting her latest comic, Verdant, and working out ways to introduce the story, the world, characters, culture, magic systems, religion etc without doing a...
04.02.2024
Quackcast 681 - Swords and armour
Today we're talking about swords and armour, the reality of those things and their use in fiction. I've always had a bit of an interest in swords since I was a little kid because I loved them in fairy-tales, comics...
03.26.2024
Quackcast 680 - Intelligence in Fiction
Today we're talking about the depiction of “intelligence” in fiction! There are a lot of ways this shows up: the genius detective who can understand any clue and uncover any lie, the amazing doctor who can understand any disease, the...
03.19.2024
Quackcast 679 - Correlation doesn't equal causation
The phrase “Correlation doesn't equal causation” is something associated with science and statistics but it really applies to EVERYTHING and that's important to understand. But was does it mean? If a bunch of things happened at the same time, those...
03.12.2024
Quackcast 678 - Panel order!
Banes did a really interesting newspost about panel order and how we read comics- not just left to right or right to left but which panel flows to what and how you get the reader to go in the right...
03.05.2024
Quackcast 677 - You can't spell "Fail" without "AI"
I remembered that a promised Quackcast was AI: slavery for artists and creators. This is an important subject to cover especially from this angle. It's slavery because it uses our creative products as fuel for it's database training for free...
02.27.2024
Quackcast 676 - Baby it's cold outside, cultural context
Oh baby it's cold outside… That's a tricky song, well it's not really but a few years ago the silly pop-culture warriors on Twitter started acting as if the song was all “rapey” with the male in the song trying...
02.20.2024
Quackcast 675 - Lurv
It was Valentine's Day last week so let's talk about lurv. Love makes the world go round, love solves all problems, love heals all, love is eternal, love is all you need, all you need is love… Well those are...
02.13.2024
Quackcast 674 - Fashion
Do you change your style to go with current fashions or do you stick with your own thing and stay independent of changing trends? This is complicated by the fact that most people's styles are often influenced by an...
02.06.2024
Quackcast 673 - By their deeds you shall know them
Here we're fulfilling the promise of Quackcast 671 and examining what the art can tell us about the artist! Can certain themes, an art style, choice of imagery, jokes, humour, character opinions, colour choices or anything else tell us anything...
01.30.2024
Quackcast 672 - Fave Fantasy Creatures
A fun topic this time. We decided to chat about our fave fantasy creatures. Mine was elves, Banes' had the bigfoot and Tantz had dragons! We chat about where our love started, why we think we like the creatures and...
01.24.2024
Quackcast 671 - Art Vs the Artist
Art VS the artist! Can you infer something about the creator from their creation? Do you think the art is an accurate reflection of the artist? For THIS Quackcast I wanted to tackle the idea of whether you could judge...
01.16.2024
Quackcast 670 - Wise use of influence
This Quackcast is about using influence wisely! I had a DD comic creator come to me, apparently a bit distressed at some of the things we'd said in our last Quackcast about drawing adult comics- they had decided to delete...
01.09.2024
Quackcast 669 - sexelant
The number of the Quackcast is 669 so that means it's time for sexy stuff again! But despite the topic this isn't an adult cast and we keep things to a respectful tone. We chat about how drawing sexy characters...
01.02.2024
Quackcast 668 - Year in Review
Happy new year. Happy 2024! We're doing a year in review show this time because what else do you talk about in the last recorded thing/first presented thing of the year? We chat a bit about the progress of Drunk...
12.27.2023
Quackcast 667 - Merry Christmas and Interview with John Celestri!
Merry Christmas! Today we interviewed John Celestri, a new member of DD and a very cool person. John has worked as an animator on some of the coolest shows in the 70s and 80s. He was the guy behind Boba...
12.19.2023
Quackcast 666 - Evil
We're up to number 666 Quackcasts so our topic this time is evil! Evil is a complicated subject, we all think we know what it is but we really don't, there are just so many aspects to it so it's...
12.12.2023
Quackcast 665 - Eyes
This week our talk is an art one: eyes! We talk about how to draw them, adding meaning and expression, the way different cultures use them, different styles for doing eyes, reflection, shadow, focus and a million other things! ...
12.05.2023
Quackcast 664 - Parody and satire
We're talking about parody and its evil twin satire. There are good parodies and bad ones but we feel the better parodies are the indirect ones that make fun of and exaggerate the theme or the vibe of something rather...
11.28.2023
Quackcast 663 - AI and The Duck
This Quackcast tackles the issue of AI comics on Drunk Duck. We're discussing either a ban or rules that would enable them to be posted under conditions. We also talk about AI generated imagery and the issues with it and...
11.21.2023
Quackcast 662 - Drunkduck tales
Webcomic communities have different cultures, but why and where do they come from? DD's culture is pretty chill, we're reasonably neutral and accepting of a wide range of ideas and perspectives, we're egalitarian to a very high degree, we...
11.14.2023
Quackcast 661 - Steaks... stakes
Stakes are a part of a story. What does a character want? What means the most to the character? What are they after, what do they care about? Stakes can be really subjective like that and they can also be...
11.07.2023
Quackcast 660 - The Multiverse
Multiverses are really popular in fiction right now, eg. Dr Strange into the mouth of Madness, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Flash, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Rick and Morty, and The Loki TV series (which I love). So what...
10.31.2023
Quackcast 659 - Happy Halloween 2023
Happy Halloween! The time of spookiness and ghosts. Spooks messed up the cast so the sound quality is really bad I'm afraid, I tried to do what I could to fix it though. This week Banes, I, and Tantz...
10.24.2023
Quackcast 658 - Marvellous musicals
We're chatting about the subject of musicals for this particular Quackcast. You might think this has nothing to do with webcomics but webcomic musicals popup from time to time, like The Black Parade on DD by Ashlee S. Musicals...
10.17.2023
Quackcast 657 - The art of the tease
The art of the tease is what we're talking about here. It's something Banes and I work with on Bottomless Waitress and it's what you see in a lot of raunchy comedies, you also see it in other applications...
10.10.2023
Quackcast 656 - Character Growth 2, Indiana Jones
This Quackcast is a sequel to our Quackcast last week on alternative character growth, but instead of Star Wars this time we decided on Indiana Jones. It's a really interesting creative writing exercise, we think up a better, more interesting...
10.03.2023
Quackcast 655 - Alternative Character growth
Last week we focused on character growth VS tropes to run characters but Tantz had the idea to look at alternative growth for characters who did NOT grow well (after the original trilogy). So in this Quackcast we apply that...
09.26.2023
Quackcast 654 - tropes vs character growth
Today we're chatting about characters who're mainly based on tropes VS those that grow. You see this difference quite clearly in a lot of British comedy VS American comedy where characters are set up in certain ways, e.g. the nerd,...
09.19.2023
Quackcast 653 - Star Treken
Today we're talking about STAR TREK! Star Trek is a pretty influential piece of pop-culture. Most interesting to me is that it's a future that is NOT a dystopia. It's a large scale vision of a future world where everything...
09.12.2023
Quackcast 652 - Physical traits that set characters apart
Our topic this week is making your characters individual, distinct and setting them apart through physical traits. In many mainstream superhero comics or manga the only difference between most characters is their outfit, hair, and skin tone. There are a...
09.05.2023
Quackcast 651 - Strong characters of any gender and DD awards stuff
We're chatting about a couple of things today: the DD 2023 Awards which are in their completion faze now, and "strong" characters of any gender. The DD awards are finding up now and presentations will be happening so it's a...
08.29.2023
Quackcast 650 - Fake things that only exist in pop-culture
There are a lot of things that only exist in fiction and really don't have any basis in reality and yet we THINK they do! It's just that fiction has done such a great job of making us believe this...
08.22.2023
Quackcast 649 - Gendered clothing
When you're drawing people in a webcomic one of the common ways to indicate gender is by outfits, but why are clothes gendered at all and is that a constant? Gendered clothing clothing is influenced by many things like...
08.15.2023
Quackcast 648 - Kawaii's Choice
This week's cast was an experiment and if it works out we'll do more! We came up with the idea for discussing a comic live on air, the hard part was choosing it, for that we settled on our trusty...
08.08.2023
Quackcast 647 - characters screwed over by adapters
We're having a chat about characters that differ from the source material and turn out crap because of it. Characters where the people adapting them didn't care, understand, or even take time to read the original stuff because they thought...
08.01.2023
Quackcast 646 - FIGHT! Drawing and references
Drawing fight scenes is damn hard! One of the best ways to deal with this is to use references, but that's hard too because it's a pain to find the ones you need! So today we're talking about making your...
07.25.2023
Quackcast 645 - AI-cast
We're chatting about the current state of AI, it's use, abuse, and the moronic way it's typically being utalised by mid-level businesses to screw over creative people and save money in the short term. “AI” is the current big...
07.18.2023
Quackcast 644 - Psychocast
We're talking about the pop-culture myth of psychopaths and sociopaths and other stuff like serial killers. Yes those conditions do exist, well sort of (not exactly with those names), but the pop-culture versions we know from the media are mostly...
07.11.2023
Quackcast 643 - Cultcast
With the release of the new Indiana Jones film comes some questions… We haven't seen it yet but we hear a lot of people don't like it and it's already being called a flop. But is that because it's actually...
07.04.2023
Quackcast 642 - Gatekeeping
Gatekeeping can be a pretty dickish practice… but not in every case. Generally we see it as a social pop culture trend where older established fans of something will try and put down new people and discourage them from joining...

What's The Drunk Duck Quackcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Drunk Duck Quackcast episodes:

Quackcast 691 - Thirst Trap

Quackcast 690 - Mister V, Dozer Manifesto

Quackcast 689 - One Big Passion and Influence

Quackcast 688 - Artistic Evolution

Quackcast 687 - ...a very special episode

Quackcast 686 - May the fourth be with you

Quackcast 685 - mantle

Quackcast 684 - The hero is dead?

Quackcast 683 - Hot for Teacher

Quackcast 682 - Exposition!

Quackcast 681 - Swords and armour

Quackcast 680 - Intelligence in Fiction

Quackcast 679 - Correlation doesn't equal causation

Quackcast 678 - Panel order!

Quackcast 677 - You can't spell "Fail" without "AI"

Quackcast 676 - Baby it's cold outside, cultural context

Quackcast 675 - Lurv

Quackcast 674 - Fashion

Quackcast 673 - By their deeds you shall know them

Quackcast 672 - Fave Fantasy Creatures

Quackcast 671 - Art Vs the Artist

Quackcast 670 - Wise use of influence

Quackcast 669 - sexelant

Quackcast 668 - Year in Review

Quackcast 667 - Merry Christmas and Interview with John Celestri!

Quackcast 666 - Evil

Quackcast 665 - Eyes

Quackcast 664 - Parody and satire

Quackcast 663 - AI and The Duck

Quackcast 662 - Drunkduck tales

Quackcast 661 - Steaks... stakes

Quackcast 660 - The Multiverse

Quackcast 659 - Happy Halloween 2023

Quackcast 658 - Marvellous musicals

Quackcast 657 - The art of the tease

Quackcast 656 - Character Growth 2, Indiana Jones

Quackcast 655 - Alternative Character growth

Quackcast 654 - tropes vs character growth

Quackcast 653 - Star Treken

Quackcast 652 - Physical traits that set characters apart

Quackcast 651 - Strong characters of any gender and DD awards stuff

Quackcast 650 - Fake things that only exist in pop-culture

Quackcast 649 - Gendered clothing

Quackcast 648 - Kawaii's Choice

Quackcast 647 - characters screwed over by adapters

Quackcast 646 - FIGHT! Drawing and references

Quackcast 645 - AI-cast

Quackcast 644 - Psychocast

Quackcast 643 - Cultcast

Quackcast 642 - Gatekeeping