NPC Comic
A comic about two blue cats who play World of Warcraft, and their gamer human. Written and drawn by Mary Varn.
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Smart books have dull covers?
Do I detect another Azumanga Daioh fan??
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Animal Farm is actually fairly light reading
The greater enjoyment in that book is in analyzing it and comparing it… I’d say it’s much more ‘adult’ than manga
Yotsoba&! and Azumanga Daioh.
Not a big anime fan anymore, but still tell whats what
The great gatsby is not that great.
I just had Azumanga Daioh intersection music play in my head
I like brown books
Actually most of the books I’ve read have all had black covers. I think that is the default for hardbacks (once you take the dust cover off)
* like like like like like*
Great comic. Love the layout and visual storytelling. Just fantastic.
Thank you!
When the Harry Potter books first became a phenomenon in the UK, they released the first two in “discreet” covers – for example, the first one had a very demure black-and-white illustration of a train arriving at a station, with no other identifying marks at all – specifically for adult readers who were embarrassed to be seen reading ”kids’ books” on the subway.
I don’t know if they did more than the first two. By the time the third book came around, it was officially Okay Not To Care anymore. As far as I’m concerned it was Okay Not To Care to begin with.
That’s funny! We have a set of the British ones as well – I think they’re the kid ones. I liked reading them on the subway because they’re a little smaller than the American Scholastic ones. But I’d get a lot of stares. Not because it was a kid book – everyone was reading Harry Potter – but because people seemed confused that it said “Harry Potter” but didn’t look like the other books.
Ha, I had the Azumanga Diaoh opening stuck in my head over the weekend. Just when it left it’s back in again.
I love Yotsuba!! I’m still trying to catch up, but I feel no shame reading a manga in public. If anyone else doesn’t like it, that is their problem
This looks like me, reading Manga on the subway. Although it’s normally Excel Saga, I’ve read Azumanga Daioh almost as many times as I’ve watched it, which is many.
Animal Farm is the only good book out of the serious ones by the way.
Lisa looks super geeky as a kid!
What was her book?
Lisa’s book is a very garish version of Yotsuba.
Lisa is reading Yotsuba&!, by the author of Azumanga Daioh. It’s about a cute green haired 4 year girl and her interactions with her environment. Way too cute.
I wish they would create an anime series. Manga rules for mass transit reading, aside from people watching.
Several pundits have claimed one of the biggest reasons for Kindle’s success is that no one will ever know you’re reading the latest Harlequin romance … your Kindle cover will never betray you.
Im just gonna leave a note here, about how much more fun Yotsuba! is to read, then Azumango Daioh – A lot more even.
I like how you made the child with Yotsuba!, because of her being, well Yotsuba-chan…
Ok, this inspired me to start a poll. Check the main page.
It’s better than at the library, while reading manga.
You get kids coming up to you asking why you’re reading the book backwards…
-_-’
Was just deciding what book to pack for a 2-hour train tomorrow…
Went with my “complete Bone” door-stopper for the time factor, but now it’ll be even better. Especially compared to all the dour business-people and their Financial Journals.
Yay Azumanga Daioh! Love Sakaki.
Nice comic, especially the top right panel.
I’d rather read animal farm than being forced to read mangas, though. Ugh.
I like the people in the bottom left panel
Off topic, so my apologies.
I noticed in your “About” page, you said you worked as an animator on Little Einsteins. Just out of curiousity, any peculiar episodes or portions I should attribute to you?
My daughter loves the show, and we’ve watched it regularly for over a year.
Aw, glad your daughter likes the show! There were two teams, so I worked on roughly half the episodes, so no, there isn’t any one that I could point to since I worked on a lot of them. And there was reuse between them, so my name is probably in the credits on all of them. You can see some selected clips I did from the show though at maryvarn.com!
Ahhh Yotsuba…Gotta love that, I wish they made Yotsuba into a anime following the success of Azumanga.
im sorry to say that i have heard nether of them to what group are they aimed for?
Manga/Anime fans who like cute and random things.
I just stumbled onto your comic courtesy of thebigbearbutt.com. Just wanted to say I thoroughly enjoyed it and have added your RSS feed. Great work!
Thanks! That was a very nice and thoughtful post he wrote!
Do you know what kind of person reads Tolstoy on a subway?
The kind of person that wants everyone else to *see* that they’re reading Tolstoy on a subway
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For about 100 years I’ve been wanting to ask why this site is called Nonplayer Comic when everyone in it is a player.
I’m not. I don’t get half he stuff but I’m learning
oh my gosh you read manga too?!!? how are you so awesome??
I remember when I was reading Julia Child’s autobiography on the way to school…. and I was absolutely sure every single other person on the train was staring at me and going ‘oh of COURSE she’d read that, she’s a culinary student!’ ><
I love me some manga, Yotsuba & ! should be releasing the next one soon.