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Penny Arcade in the New York Times

Posted by Zonk on from the they're-just-doing-it-because-we-interviewed-them dept.

Just a few weeks after our interview with Penny Arcade, the Washingtonians have landed in a feature article on the NYT Technology page (registration required). They even mostly get what the strip is about. From the article: "The strips usually feature the authors' alter egos, Gabriel and Tycho, who exist in a slightly surreal world where obsolete electronic components are drunk, vulgarity and cartoon violence run rampant, vegan damned souls roam and debates about whether the newest video game is awesome or overblown become a matter of life or death."

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  1. Child's Play... by Schezar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So a major news outlet does a story on the most popular webcomic in the world, and fails to mention that said web comic also runs a massive charity for children?

    I would think it was at least worth mentioning.

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    1. Re:Child's Play... by jnik · · Score: 4, Interesting

      There is a hole in the article....

      Reading carefully, the second to last paragraph seems to be the lead-in to a list of other community-building activities. Then the last paragraph says they aren't "Samaritans," which wouldn't be anything like the impression one would get from the article as it stands.

      I suspect an editor got chop-happy.

      I'm amused by quotes from Scott McCloud and Infinium labs, though.

  2. Don't like Registration? by funny-jack · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try this.

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  3. NYT's confused on their roles by ostermei · · Score: 4, Informative
    The two met in high school, where they collaborated on "really terrible projects," Mr. Krahulik said. He wrote, Mr. Holkins illustrated, and they left their "bad superhero" booklets in comic book shops in the hope that someone would pick up a copy.
    That's a little backwards. Gabe (Krahulik) is the illustrator and Tycho (Holkins) is the writer, although Tycho HAS drawn for them before... with dire consequences. Not only was the art abhorrent (sorry, Tycho... just leave it to Gabe.), but this strip was during Year One, where the characters had not yet been named. This was (as I understand it) a sort of half-assed attempt to stop everyone from asking for names for the characters. The strip didn't go over so well, as it was seen as something of a cop-out, and so as time went on, the guys gradually shifted into the current situation, where the characters are, in fact, the creators' alter egos.
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  4. Ahh.. wonderful... by the_skywise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now hundreds of thousands of NYT readers are going to go to the website and see a comic strip of a guy having a fiery car accident and looking all bloody and mangled afterwards...

    And they're not going to look at the previous installments because that's too hard.

    So this will become their opinion of all video game webcomics. "Ah... yes... extreme non-sensical violence... Ahh, much too banal for me, I must return to the comforting prose of Cathy."

  5. Nooo!!! by Z0mb1eman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shoo! Shoo! Today's NYT is supposed to be all about Firefox :p

    I kid, I kid.

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