#1074; Le Roman à Crybaby

Comic Transcripts

[[A man with a thick mustache and beard on his cheeks is sitting under a tree with a book and pencil.]]
Author: I’m going to write a story about a character who feels the way I feel!
Author: Middle class, educated, with seemingly every advantage, but who still feels aimless and dissatisfied…

Author: Someone with MY lived experience will be able to shine a penetrating dramatic light on the problems that arise when you don’t really have other problems.
Author: That turmoil is real! And as deeply felt as any other!

Author: Why are heroes SUPPOSED to always be “mature” and “capable”? A cartoon fiction! MY world is full of whiners and petty idiots! I’M going to pull back the curtain to show how THIS half lives!!

[[The author is presenting his book to a young woman for review.]]
Woman: I know I’m only on chapter two, but WO are all these characters self-absorbed twits
Author: well uh yes they are of course intended to be uh unsympathetic

{{header: tell me about WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: these poor people, shoehorned by society into leading lives where they are unable to be anything but annoying}}

#1074; Le Roman à Crybaby transcribed by in

{{header: tell me about WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: these poor people, shoehorned by society into leading lives where they are unable to be anything but annoying}}

#1074; Le Roman à Crybaby transcribed by in

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one, except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.