Go, Look: Gary Gygax Tribute Comics

Many on-line comics are gaming-related or gaming focused, and therefore several have run material related to the passing last week of Dungeons and Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax. Here's a list that was e-mailed to me.

* Achewood
* Dork Tower 01
* Dork Tower 02 (pictured)
* Dueling Analogs
* Exiern
* Full Frontal Nerdity
* GU Comics
* Order of the Stick
* Penny Arcade
* Something Positive
* xkcd

In other Gygax passing-related news, occasional comics writer, designer and prose author Monte Cook wrote about attending the funeral proper. Also, this New York Times piece makes the case for D&D as a proto-Facebook. That sound you hear is people reading and either hitting themselves in the head for not thinking of it first -- or for not writing about it even though they had thought of it.

I know this is probably a little too much writing on this subject given the focus of this site, but even though I'm not a gamer I understand the milieu from growing up around them and have frequently used the gaming industry since the Journal days as a measuring stick by which I'm able to figure out the strangeness or unique nature of certain comics industry practices. When Monte Cook talks about his industry not paying a certain kind of respect to Gygax, for instance, it makes me consider about how comics honors its great artists when they pass, how community must sometimes stand in for an industry that doesn't care.
 
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