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Penny Arcade is a web comic written and illustrated by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. It is among the most popular webcomics currently online. It debuted on November 18, 1998.
The strip features the two authors' cartoon alter egos Jonathan Gabriel (a.k.a. Gabe) and Tycho Brahe, respectively, who spend much of their time playing computer and video games and commenting on them. A good deal of the humour of this strip revolves around Internet subculture and video games, and often features in-jokes that are explained by the news posts that accompany each comic. One of the most popular aspects of this strip is the signature drawing style of the artist, Mike Krahulik (Gabe), a style that is now widely emulated among many other webcartoonists.
Penny Arcade regularly features profanityProfanity is a word choice or usage which many consider to be offensive. The original meaning of the term was restricted to blasphemy, sacrilege or taking God's name in vain profane speech or swear word , especially expressions such as "God damn it", "go and violenceViolence is a general term to describe behavior, usually deliberate, that causes or intends to cause injury to people, animals, or non-living objects. Violence is often associated with aggression. There are essentially two kinds of violence: random violen, and can easily be considered offensive to those unused to such elements. The first comic strip appeared on November 18, 1998, making it one of the oldest web comics still receiving regular updates.
There is little plotPlot in literature, theater, movies According to Aristotle's Poetics a plot in literature is "the arrangement of incidents" that (ideally) each follow plausibly from the other. The plot is like the chalk outline that guides the painter's brush. An example or general continuityFor the use of the word continuity in mathematics, see continuous function. In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer. The term is taken from the mathematical sense of in Penny Arcade strips, owing to the writers' dislike for the concept. They have been quoted as describing it as the "dreaded continuity." A character who dies a horrible, violent deathThis page deals with death, the cessation of life. For other meanings of death, see death (disambiguation). Death is a term that can refer to either the termination of life in a living system, or the state of that organism after that event. A common perce in one strip will come back the next perfectly whole. There is also little realismRealism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. However, the term realism is used, with varying meanings, in several of the liberal arts; particularly painting, literature, and philosophy. It is in Penny Arcade. All manner of creatures have been known to drop in, from zombies to a talking DIVX player, and all manner of strange events have been known to take place. Just about the only thing that can be counted upon is the appearance of a new comic every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with almost no exceptions.
Some of the strips are drawn from the perspective of characters within a game[1] or movie[2], often bearing some resemblance to Gabe and Tycho, and usually having some sarcastic remark to make about some feature or bug in the game.
Both Krahulik and Holkins make a living from Penny Arcade, placing them in a very small group of web comic artists devoted to their creations full-time. Donations were once accepted, but the site now operates on advertising revenue alone. The website sees tens of thousands of visitors every day, making it one of the most popular sites on the Internet.
On November 24, 2003 the authors of Penny Arcade announced their plans for a children's charity Child's Play, which aimed to organize large scale donations for their local Seattle Children's Hospital. In their first year they donated over $250,000 in cash and toys and expanded their operations in 2004 to partner with additional hospitals in Oakland, San Diego, Houston and Washington DC.
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