Cover image for the Quackcast, with the title "Manipulation" and the green duck logo.
This week's #Quackcast is about
Manipulation!
Listen to us DD Admins talk about what manipulation is and how we write manipulative characters :D
Listen here! www.theduckwebcomics.com/quackcast/ep...
#podcast #webcomics #writing #psychology
A green duck resembling that meme where John Travolta is looking around for anyone, bewildered, is the cover for this week's quackcast! Art by ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast is about
Where We Go From Here!
Listen to us DD admins talk about what we do when it's hard to pick a story back up!
Listen to us here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2026/ma...
#podcast #webcomics #storywriting
An anthropomorphic green duck dressed in whimsical skimpy clothing and having purple curls and makeup like a Pixie Girl is today's cover image for the Quackcast! Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast is about
Fictional Trops in Reality!
Listen to us DD admins talk about people incarnating tropes in real life that usually are thought of as too over the top for RL!
www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2026/ma...
#podcast #tropes #webcomics #comics #truthinfiction
The cover for this week's Quackcast: Three images illustrating the process of coloring the background for a panel from Ozoneocean's Pinky TA. Image shows a young woman holding a massive pink wig as she's undressing. Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast was about
Background Color!
Listen to us DD Admins talk about how we handle backgrounds and coloring them, our methods (or lack thereof) and challenges!
Listen to us here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2026/fe...
#podcast #art #comics #webcomics
For the Quackcast cover, an image of Oz's character Pinky, a woman with big pink hair and large blue round ornaments in her stretched earlobes. She's dressed in a cape and metal bikini as a riff on fantasy barbarian women tropes. Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast is on
Bad Feedback!
We've all received some. Apropos the whole Hiveworks debacle, listen to us DD Admins talk about how not all #feedback is good, and how to know which is which!
Listen to us here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2026/ja...
#podcast #webcomics #comics
This week's #Quackcast was
Pick a Side!
With the world going to hell in a basket, we cope by talking about how we write great disruptions in our #webcomics.
Listen to us here! www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2026/ja...
#podcast #comics
Today's image for the quackcast is a Santa Claus that is topless and looking very buff and fit, holding a sword and a bag of presents. At his feet, a naked woman with a santa claus hat is lounging, draped over a pile of presents and wreaths. The image is done in the vibe of Frank Frazetta, art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast is
The Year End Cast!
Listen to us DD admins talk about the year in review, things that are yet to come, and a ton of things that randomly make it into the chat!
Listen to us here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/de...
#podcast #webcomics #comics
A green duck dressed in a santa costume is looking at an army of orange yet santa's helpers wearing green hats and boots. In the background there's a big Christmas tree. The image for this week's Quackcast, art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #quackcast was our annual
Christmascast!
Listen to us DD admins look at everything we've done this year as artists and admins for the internet's oldest hosting platform (that still lives!)
Listen here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/de...
#podcast #webcomics #comics #Christmas
A green duck looking smug and an orange yet looking confused and dizzy is the image for this week's quackcast! Art by Ozoneocean.
This week's #quackcast is part 2 of
Plotting or Pantsin?
Listen to us DD admins continue to comment and read on our amazing DD #artists talking about how they craft their stories in their #webcomics!
Listen here:
www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/de...
#podcast #storytelling #comics
A snazzy green duck and a confused orange yeti, Banes' avatar, is the cover for today's quackcast. Art by Ozoneocean!
Last week's #quackcast was about the eternal dilemma:
Plotting or Pantsing?
Listen to us DD admins talk about how we and the awesome DD artists in our community craft their stories. Do they plan or improvise?
Listen to part 1 here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/de...
#podcast #webcomics
A collage of Ozoneocean's various avatars used in social media and The Duck is today's image for the Quackcast!
This week's #Quackcast is about
Avatars!
Listen to us DD Admins talk about how we create or choose those ever-so-important icons we use and how they represent us!
Listen here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/no...
#podcast #webcomics #avatars #selfportraits
A collage of the same character, Jane from Bottomless Waitress, drawn differently by the same artist, Ozoneocean is the cover for this week's Quackcast!
This week's #Quackcast was about
Character Evolution!
Listen to us DD Admins talk about how the way we draw characters in #webcomics changes over time, and as we focus on different things about our own #OCs!
Listen to us here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/no...
#podcast #comics
A green duck that looks like a collage of the wicket witch of the West, a yellow duck bill with yellow human lips, and hair in a purple georgian style updo and hat, holding a pen in a green hand, is the bizarre image for the Quackcast this week. Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast was
The Importance of Drawing Earnest-ly!
Listen to us DD Admins talk about why human art is superior to the #AI one, even when it's mass produced *human* slop. And how can AI be used by real, genuine creatives, if at all?
Listen here: shorturl.at/WxSas
#webcomics #podcast
A collage of various characters, including Sailor Moon in Ozoneocean's style, a green duck in a space suit and a very curvy, effeminate Quail is the image for this week's Quackcast. Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast is about
Things Undrawn!
Listen to us DD Admins talk about what we haven't drawn in our #webcomics, what we refuse to draw, and what we'd like to draw but haven't got the chance!
Listen here: shorturl.at/GgtOk
#podcast #comics #drawing #art
A spherical floating cow is the cover image for this week's Quackcast, art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast is about
Oversimplification!
Listen to us talk about the problems that arise when working with oversimplified concepts or knowledge, which leads to stereotyping and factual inaccuracies.
Listen here: shorturl.at/Yorh7
#webcomics #podcast #DD #comics
A screenshot from our video cast talking about Halloween, showing Tantz Aerine and Ozoneocean in Halloween costumes, and Banes' window with a picture of Tim Curry's IT clown, the cover for this week's Quackcast.
This week's #Quackcast is about #Halloween! See and listen to us DD admins talk about #horror #movies, #webcomics, and more!
Listen to us here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/oc...
#popculture #comics
Cover image for Quackcast 762, a black background with the red glowing words "Handling Conflict".
This week's #Quackcast is all about
Conflict!
Listen to us DD admins do a skit trying to interrogate Oz a la senate hearing, and then discuss how #webcomic characters handle conflict!
Listen to us here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/oct/19/quackcast-762-handling-conflict/
#podcast #art
A big magnifying glass over a fingerprint on a black background is today's image for Quackcast 761, the Forensic-cast!
This week's #Quackcast is all about movie forensics!
The DD admins talk about usual TV and movie #tropes on forensic science and interrogation vs real life!
Listen to us talk here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/oc...
#webcomics #writing
A body glowing so much its skeleton is visible through its lit flesh is rising from burning lava water, the cover image for today's Quackcast on horror. Art by Tantz Aerine!
This week's #Quackcast is all about #horror, since it's #DDHorrorMonth!
Listen to us DD admins talk about #comics and #webcomics we loved of this genre, as well as movies and other #art!
Listen to us here: shorturl.at/nYSE4
#halloween
A group shot of anime space cops with a police robot is the cover image for this week's quackcast, that has the title Copcast!
This week's #quackcast is all about cops in fiction. (So, the good version, mostly ;) )
Listen to us DD Admins talk about the cop shows we love, those we hate, propaganda, tropes, and more, here:
www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/se...
#podcast #webcomics #fiction #police
A green duck wearing shades and a dapper grey pinstripe suit with a black tie, looking confident with his blonde combover is this quackcast's cover image. By Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast was about confidence!
Confidence makes characters attractive and we're here to talk about it! Listen to the DD Admins chat and discuss character building here:
www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/se...
#webcomics #podcast #characterbuilding
A cartoony duck-billed skull and bones with the title Memento Mori is this week's Quackcast's cover image. Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast was all about DEATH. Well, about mortality. Memento Mori!
Listen to us DD admins talk about how we deal with mortality in our lives and in our #webcomics!
www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/se...
#podcast #comics #art #tropes
A cartoon slice of colorful layered cake with a cherry on top is this quackcast's cover image! Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #quackcast is about works that appear shallow or dumb, but are actually layered with hidden commentaries, critiques, even politics!
Listen to us DD admins talk about the ones we think are the best examples in movies here: shorturl.at/VQ7Rv
#podcast #movies #webcomics #art #themes
An angry green duck that is buff and looks like Conan the Barbarian is scowling at a much scrawnier green duck that was writing "End?" in a book, the image for this week's Quackcast! Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast is about endings and if the author that created the original story should get to write it, even if they're taking their sweet time about it.
Listen to us talk about it here:
shorturl.at/NT3AP
#podcast #webcomics #art
A scene in a diner where three people, a blonde waitress with ambitious cleavage, a tall woman in a tank top and jeans with short hair and dyed blonde fringe, and a bespectacled ginger guy with receding hairline, a ponytail, and mustache are all talking to each other. Bubbles only read 'blah blah blah" for the cover of this week's Quackcast! Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #quackcast is all about #dialogue and its various roles in a #webcomic! Listen to us talk from different vantage points, with different insights on the matter!
www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/au...
#podcast #webcomics #comics #art
A green duck that has two smaller green ducks fighting it out with swords and shields inside it is the cover for this week's Quackcast, with the title "Driven by internal struggles". Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #quackcast is about the Conflict Within! A great way to give drive to characters, and even to understand them.
Listen to us talk about #character #design that follows that trope here:
www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/au...
#webcomics #podcast
Three green ducks, one covering his eyes, the other his bill and the other the sides of his head where ears would be, is the cover for today's Quackcast! Title of the quackcast is Censor 3: How it works on DD. Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #quackcast is again about #censorship- this time, about how we handle it when we need to restrict content on The Duck (which is EXTREMELY RARE). Listen to us talk about our trials and tribulations when we need to do what we hate the most:
shorturl.at/83W6H
#podcast #webcomics #comics
A collage of logos of X, facebook, instagram, youtube and google, together with images of Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg each featuring devil horns on their head is the cover image for today's Quackcast!
This week's #Quackcast is again about #censorship, this time by the social media moguls. Ironically, *after* recording this #podcast we, The Duck, were also hit with it!
So listen to us talk about it *before* we got the axe on instagram or facebook here!
shorturl.at/pw2zs
#webcomics #comics
A cussing duck censored with a big 'censored' stamp on his bill is this week's quackcast cover image. Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #Quackcast is about #censorship!
Listen to us talk about censorship in #webcomics and #art in general here:
www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/ju...
#podcast #comics
The title card for this quackcast, called "Chasin' Trends" showing a green duck rushing after a flashy burst of colorful light. Art by Ozoneocean!
This week's #quackcast is all about #fashion and #trends! Not just for clothing, but for #writing and #webcomic styles and even genres and themes!
Listen to us talk about it here:
www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/ju...
#podcast #comics
