The second time I went to GDC, we were watching the awards at the end of the show when the same dude kept coming up again and again. Not because he was a weirdo or anything, although that is almost certainly true; he kept going up there because he'd won "all the awards" for a game called Monaco. His name was Andy Schatz, but I didn't know that before. It became easier to remember each time it was said, and it was said often.

Another Tuesday and another artist leaves the Strip Search house.

As a fan of Capcom's Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Shadows Over Mystara, as well as games like Vanillaware's Muramasa and Odin Sphere, Dragon's Crown is more or less the song of my heart. It is my heartsong. Apparently it's not everybody's heartsong! That's what I read. They don't like the game's ridiculously, freakishly, borderline scarily rendered "woman" and to a certain extent I can understand why.

Mother’s Day is coming up on May 12th. In can be difficult to pick out the right present for Mom but we are giving you some great ideas over on the PA store.

Considering the today’s comic strip is about golf, this seems like a good time to mention the 2013 Child’s Play Invitational. This year We will be playing at Inglewood Golf Club in Kenmore Wa, rather than down in California.

I think that does it for "Emulator." In a year or so, when your tolerance for familial excursions of this type has perhaps regenerated, I'll let you know the types of shit my daughter gets up to. She has her mother's head for math, those inexplicable and sorcerous divinations. I've always resented numbers, and really, what's to like. As an accomplished (and arguably, professional) liar I vastly prefer words, whose precise meaning is almost always in superposition. I took debate, certainly; I can lie with numbers, too. Eventually though, eventually, numbers have a way of holding their shape.

A big part of making a living as a webcomic artist is the convention scene. Setting up and running a good merch booth is huge. In the latest episode of Strip Search we put the artists to the test.

A systemic sidebar.

How will the artists in the house respond to last week’s crazy switcheroo? Find out right now!

My suggestion to the creator was to expand the charter somewhat by adding the designation "dagger-ma'am," but I don't know if it penetrated the scalp. I like it, though! I guess I would. It's the sort of thing I would like.

I thought Gabriel the Younger's bit of worldbuilding was pretty cool, here. When we were running through the setting with him, I asked if there was any chance a squirrel might scrabble in while the Good Guys and Bad Guys were locked in their traditional array and take a seat. He laughed, but I put a stop to that quick. This is some profoundly serious B.

New Strip Search episode is up and it’s a controversial one.

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The latest episode of Strip Search is live and it’s another great one. I've seen some posts on the message board asking to see the artists making more art. Well here you go.

Gabriel's son, also a Gabriel, has taken on the task of creating his own roleplaying game. That seemed like something we should catalog, and we have begun to do so. It's currently six strips, and it looks to stay there. I have a lot to say about it.

I’m not the crazy Kickstarter that Tycho is. He kicks something new every day. I told him I just don’t have the patience to invest in something cool and then wait months or even a year for it to be real. In fact I’ve only ever kicked two things in my life. The first was 13th Age which I think is an incredibly cool new RPG setting. The second I just donated to this weekend. It’s a documentary called “that’s not funny”.