NPC Comic

Here are some sketches I did in preparing for the guest comic I did for Weregeek earlier this week. (Have you seen it? Read it here!) It’s very appropriate that I did all of these while at a day-long gaming session at a friend’s! We were playing Zombiecide while I doodled these in my sketchbook.





That sketch of Dustin ultimately made it in. I love that fat cat, but he’s kinda…deformed.





I wrote “Quinn” because we got into a discussion about NYC mayoral candidates and for some reason felt compelled to take notes I guess.





This made it in the final. It was fun to draw cats like real cats and not like little cat people, ala Chloe and Bink.

I’m so excited to bring you this new NPC Comic shirt, featuring one of your favorite blue kitties right where she belongs – on your laptop, of course!
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Also! I did a guest comic for Weregeek! Do you read Weregeek? It’s a great tabletop-gaming centric comic that you should obviously check out if you haven’t already. I’m so honored for the opportunity to do a guest comic for it! The above image is a preview – read the full thing here!

I’ve been sketching on paper more lately. I used to do it all the time, before computers really became a Big Thing! I don’t like that I have the urge to press command+Z every time I make a mistake putting pen to paper. Pushing past it with practice.

Hi everyone! I’m drawing back on the NPC Comic posting schedule a bit. For the time being, I’ll be posting the comics at least once a week, on Mondays. The previous twice-a-week schedule is just proving too much for me to juggle along with work. I may do some quickie comics that I post later in the week some weeks, and my hope is that this new schedule will free me up to get back to continuing to explore and improve. I’ll also be posting more here in the blog – sketches, behind-the-scenes videos, thoughts on games, and other random geekery. You can always follow my twitter, the NPC Facebook Page, my Tumblr, or my Google+ if you want to be reminded that there’s something new here!


Here’s some random geekery sketches now! I’ve been super excited for the return of Game of Thrones on HBO, so I did some sketches. My favorite character, Arya Stark, and everyone’s least favorite, Joffrey!

The PAX Blizzcon Booth. Hearthstone on this side and Diablo 2 on the PS3 on the other side.

John and I went to our third PAX East last weekend, and I think it was the best one yet. Part of that may have been that we made the most of it, knowing that we weren’t going to Gen Con this year. And part of that may have been that the show really does just keep getting better. The organizers, enforcers, and BCEC do a great job at organizing the crowds, lines, gaggles, and herds of gamers.

Popcap had a fun booth.

Card games really jumped out at me this year! I played a Magic TCG minimasters tournament, Ascension (the tabletop version, as I had previously only played on my iPhone), SolForge on the iPad, and of course Blizzard’s newly announced Hearthstone.

Weird.

Other games I played:

Other fun stuff I did! Went to the Strip Search panel, designed a game in 15 minutes, and got some Chandra goggles.

Blizzard was giving out little heartstone keychains to people who played Heartstone at their booth!