#1127; For Want of a Patron

Comic Transcripts

[[An artist complains to a potential patron (who appears to just be an arbitrary bystander).]]
Artist: Well, I hope you’re HAPPY! My whole project is a shambles!
Patron: What PROJECT
Artist: My personal exploration of the ISSUES facing my generation. It WAS to be a series of a hundred life-sized sculpted Cheeto self-portraits crafted meticulously by hand.
Patron: An exploration to what end?

Artist: I DON’T KNOW! Hence an EXPLORATION. But it’ll all fall apart if I can’t renew my grocery store license so I can get a bulk rate on Cheeto blanks! It’s CRUCIAL!
Artist: This is IMPORTANT! This is MEANINGFUL! It’s EVERYTHING I’ve been BUILDING toward! Step up to the plate and pitch in fifty bucks!
Patron: What are you even DOING
Patron: Why would I ENCOURAGE this

Artist: It’s my ART. It’s my PASSION. It’s what I have to SAY. Without your support, I can’t proceed. I can’t make the art.
Artist: Am I STUTTERING? Why are you HESITATING? What’s NOT to GET?

Patron: I think it sounds dumb.
Artist: Oh of COURSE
Artist: The CLASSIC PHILISTINE EXCUSE

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{{alt-text: For just TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS you can help me pay the speeding ticket that I got while I was driving here to ask you for money}}

#1127; For Want of a Patron transcribed by in

Patron: I think it sounds dumb.
Artist: Oh of COURSE
Artist: The CLASSIC PHILISTINE EXCUSE

{{header: the world-shattering WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: For just TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS you can help me pay the speeding ticket that I got while I was driving here to ask you for money}}

#1127; For Want of a Patron 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.