NPC Comic

Hi guys! I prepped, formatted, and uploaded a bunch of different sizes of the Feline Liberation and Equality Association poster that Chloe and Bink are dropping on the public. It can decorate your desktop, iPad, or iPhone for just a dollar.

Head to the wallpaper page to donate and download. Donations, merch sales, and the ads on this site keep NPC going, so I thank you so much for your support.

If there’s demand for another size or a certain device, please let me know! It’s not a problem to reformat it to fit your screen, mobile or desktop.

My boyfriend John and I made the easy trip from NYC to Boston again
this year for a combo PAX East/John-family visit.

For those of you unfamiliar, PAX East is the east coast version of the
gaming convention put on by gaming webcomic heroes Penny Arcade. It’s
good geeky fun. And no, we didn’t cosplay as Jaina Proudmoore and
Link.

Here’s some fun stuff we did.

Painted a mini!

The good people at Reaper had set up tables where anyone could grab a
free primed plastic mini, plop down, and get lost in painting it for
an hour. It was a relaxing zen thing to do in the middle of the crowds.
I painted a burly warrior dwarf and John painted a glowing green
ghost.

http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/

Demoed Fiasco!

Will Hindmarch, a writer for some of the Fiasco playsets, among other
things, did a great job running us through our first Fiasco session.
Fiasco is a Role Playing game in which you use dice, index cards, and
a few lists of choices to determine the relationships between
characters, needs, objects, and locations that you tie into your
story. Then you simply take turns constructing and resolving scenes
for each other and before you know it, you’ve written a pretty
engaging Coen brother’s knock off in 45 minutes.

Here’s a sketch of my character’s pivotal scene.

Having an experienced player/writer/GM lead us through is invaluable
and one of my favorite things about demoing games at PAX and GenCon.
We were even able to play on our own, with John’s brother, the next
day, having learned some tips from that first session.

The ACAM Arcade!

The American Classic Arcade Museum in new Hampshire hosts a room full of free-to-play arcade classic cabinets, and it’s probably my favorite thing at PAX. I love those old games. I had a chance to play Ms. Pac-Man and Galaxian and Frogger. These old games always impress me with their difficulty, elegance, and ability to illicit a lot of visceral lever-pumping.

We went to the ACAM panel later and enjoyed listening to the game designers wax nostalgic about those early days of video game design.

Demoed Zpocalypse!

This game got a ton of support on kickstarter and should be coming out soon. There are a lot of zombie games out there, but this one may stand out because it pushes you to strategize around terrain and traps.

Those are my PAX highlights! I didn’t make it to everything I would
have liked, like the Wow Insider Panel or other game demoes, but I
think we rocked the PAX/family visit balance nicely.

I found this entertaining. Maybe you will too.

It’s that time of year again. March MODOK Madness! Where artists of all stripes draw MODOKs. Don’t know what MODOK is? Then it’s your lucky month. Find out all about the Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing over at said blog.
BinkDOK here is my 2012 contribution to the noble effort to increase the world’s supply of MODOK art. What’s a BinkDOK? A Bink designed only for killing, of course.
You can also check out my 2010 submission. My 2011 one got zapped by MODOK’s headband.

Lisa and Mike dressed up as Jaina and Link got me wondering about cosplay habits in general. I dressed up for one con. I was Kiki from Kiki’s Delivery Service. It was fun, but I’m usually not up for the effort it takes to put together a good costume, not to mention the possible discomforts that come with wearing things I don’t normally wear, in a crowded convention space.