The Drunk Duck Quackcast

Fear: What are we afraid of? Why do we like or do not like media that may reflect these fears or lead us to new ones? How do such comics inspire fear or similar reactions within us. DO we like horror because we like fear to an extent? This Quackcast is about horror comics, how they work and why we like them. We chat about many of the horror comics on DD. We all dressed up in costume for the Quackcast for a video especially for our Patreons! Donate and you'll be able to see the vids here, we'll have a free short into vid up for you - https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Kirsha Brackets: A warm rush of frenetic activity! Modern, bright, shiny, new, fun, action, happening, moving, going, bouncing, bubbling, hopping, motivation! Here's a preview of the Videos you will get if you support us on Patreon https://youtu.be/ruRv5xdqChU Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Hacking Human - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/oct/16/featured-comic-hacking-human/ Links: Horror comics thread - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/178008/ Horror comics on DD: Full Moon Stories - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Fullmoon_Stories/ The Gloom - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Gloom/ Demon Eater - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Demon_Eater/ XTIN - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/XTIN/ Charby the Vampire - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/ The Weird Adventures of Armless Amy - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_weird_adventures_of_Armless_Amy/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Pitface - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Kirsha Brackets - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Kirsha_Brackets/, by DrawingGenius, rated T.

Amelius of the magnificent and eternal Charby The Vampirate returns to the Quackcast today! Amelius was the first person we every interviewed and Charby the Vampirate has been on Drunk Duck exactly as long as Pinky TA: since January 2004! Tantz and I chat to her about the new Patreon she has going for Charby and all the amazing bonus perks you can get on it. If you're a Charby fan you should definitely get in on that. Amelius has also agreed to join us on DD to do newsposts every week! So you will be seeing some cool content from her regularly. She has a LOT of comic making experience to impart. For those of you who don't know Charby the Vampirate he's a quick synopsis: It's a horror-fantasy and often dark comedy, with a little bit of drama here and there. Charby is a cute little fella with big, red, jewel-like eyes, he's also a centuries old high ranking vampire. He lives in a little shack deep in the dark scary monster-filled woods, sharing it with a host of other cute, colourful and amazing characters. There's slice of life comedy, relationship stories, deep plots, high stakes drama, ancient evil, and everything in between. The art is colourful, cute, refined to a diamond edge and just plain beautiful. Speaking of Patreon, DD has it's own now! Contribute here and get your name posted on the front page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5127951 You can advertise on DD for $2 a day with unlimited impressions and your ad in all regions: https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/oct/11/advertising-with-us/ This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Metamorphosis Protocal: Fallen sandstone ruins silhouetted against the hard blue sky, bright sun glares through the gaps. A hot breeze blows past, whistling, shifting loose sand… This tune is quiet and deceptively heavy, it creeps up to rock you… Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Smell the Roses - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/oct/09/featured-comic-smell-the-roses/ Links: Listen to us on Stitcher ​​- https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=224306&refid=stpr Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/ Amelius Patreon perks - https://www.patreon.com/Charby/posts Charby the Vampirate - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/ Neilak20 pic by me - https://www.deviantart.com/ozoneocean/art/Secret-Santa-pic-for-Neilik20-46300082 Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Amelius - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Amelius/ Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Metamorphosis Protocal - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Metamorphosis_Protocal/, by Doorki, rated T.

Fighting ladies, female bad-ass characters… There are a lot more of them around now, but once upon a time they were pretty thin on the ground. I love a good badarse lady, my own comic character Pinky TA exemplifies that character type. There's something about a tough lady who can kick butt with the best of them that's especially compelling. They evolved from something a little more exploitative, ladies fighting in bikinis basically, then we had ladies that were just the female version of a male character (Batwoman, Supergirl etc), which is something we're starting to see a little more of unfortunately, but on the good side of things we ARE actually getting fighting ladies who're their OWN women: Original characters. In this Quackcast we talk about some of our faves and some of the earlier incarnations of the character type, from Robert E Howard's Red Sonya and Valeria, to Catherine L Moore's Jirel of Joiry, to Wonder woman, then later characters like Red Sonja (from the comics), She-Hulk, Sarah Conner, Ripley, Buffy, Xena, Aeon Flux… What are some of YOUR faves? Mine are Tank Girl, Lara Croft, Motoko Kusanagi, Garnet and many more :) This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Dolphin Bros: Jump, jump, jump up and down to this mad dolphin party scene. It’s all over the place but all it wants you to do is MOVE! Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Glass Rafters - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/oct/02/featured-comic-glass-rafters/ Listen to us on Stitcher ​​- https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=224306&refid=stpr Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/ Fighting Girls: Hit Girlz - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/HitGirlz/ King's Club - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Kings_Club/ Godstrands - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Godstrands/ Pinky TA - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Pinky_TA/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Dolphin Bros - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Dolphin_Bros/, by cjoe1377, rated E.

Nostalgia! - Where does it fit in the creative process? People are the product of their influences. For a lot of us the strongest influences happen when we're growing up and learning about the world and all the things IN it for the first time. As you get older the things you experience don't make as much impact, simply because your brain has already had most of its “first times” and it's already learned enough about the world to be fully functional and independent. “Nostalgia” is strongest when you harken back to those formative experiences, many little “origin stories” so to speak. Art that references nostalgia can make you feel more connected to it, it can give you a mental rush when you recall how much you loved something and looked forward to it, it can transport you back to when you had a particular frame of mind and dwell on that. Also, things are always cooler looking BACK than when you're actually experiencing them because your mind romanticises and embellishes memories, creating impressionist paintings of them… The recent film Ready Player on (directed by Spielberg and adapted from a book) plays on pop-culture nostalgia heavily, as well as the nostalgia of formative experiences and contrasts it with the need to live in the present. Of course nostalgia helped sell that film and made the book a hit. Films, books and comics can use nostalgia in many ways to draw an audience in. Creators can use it to make themselves get enthused for their work This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Metal Ice Cream, this sound is a spaceship full of mysterious, robotic, metallic, clunky and compelling dance beats. Grind your gears! Shake that chunky metal body till it rattles! Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Drunk Duck Awards 2018 - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/sep/25/featured-comic-drunk-duck-awards-2018/ Links: Listen to us on Stitcher ​​- https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=224306&refid=stpr Or TuneinRadio Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Metal Ice Cream - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Metal_Ice_Cream/, by DanielLeister, rated T.

In THIS Quackcast we chat about shots! The kind you get from a camera… Long short, bird's eye view, worm's eye view, high angle, low angle, wide angle, fish eye, close up, ultra close up… You can use them to set the pace of the narrative, increase drama, reveal or conceal elements and so on. Shot types and angles are really important in story crafting. This was based on a newspost by Banes. I was actually IN Athens in Greece sitting next to Tantz Aerine for this Quackcast. It was cool to be in the same place with at least ONE of our fellow casters. Banes was still in Canada and Pit was in London, making a very brief cameo appearance at the very end. This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Salamander. This music blasts on like the plasma fury of a raging furnace, bathing your ears with vermilion heat, hot and dry. Heavy, distorted, layered guitar, and rocky drums create the feeling and the image. This is a hot, hot sound! Topics and shownotes Featured comic: FEATURED COMIC –> One Sixth Stories - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/aug/15/featured-comic-one-sixth-stories/ Links: Bane's Newspost about shots and scenes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/aug/29/give-it-your-best-shot/ Listen to us on Stitcher ​​- https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=224306&refid=stpr Or TuneinRadio Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Salamander - - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Salamander/, by Saint Bree, rated T.