Featured Humorist–Penny Arcade

Before i start working on this featured humorist, first a boiler plate disclaimer. Some of this stuff can get a bit on the blue side. I won’t highlight anything especially outrageous but if you really hate curse words or immature jokes then what’s usually thought of as funny on the internet may not be for you.

I first got turned on to Penny-Arcade when I was a senior in high school, at the time the concept of a regular webcomic was really novel. The first strip I ever read was your girlfriend, tribes and you, which a fellow nerd pointed out to me when we were supposed to be working on some homework.

Well that strip has really been for gaming and nerd-life what the op-ed page of the NY times has been for politics. Anything from comic books, table top games, video games, advertising, computers–any kind of nerd thing or personality has been on the virtual pages of Penny-Arcade.

Over the last few years they’ve moved from just being a funny web comic but they’re emerging as a brand. Several books have come out from Darkhorse Comics publishing the majority of the archives, they have a huge store full of clever shirts and merchandise, and a major conference–PAX, the Penny Arcade Expo in which thousands of nerds descend on Seattle for one of the largest public gaming shows in North America.