The Comic Book History Of Roleplaying Games
I recently stepped into my friendly local comic shop, for the first time in too long, and something caught my eye . . . Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games. Naturally I picked it up, and after a few minutes of flipping, I decided it had to come home with me.
The art is bold and whimsical, and the storytelling is extremely tight. It was especially cool to see just how much page count a certain Steve gets. Of course, much of the coverage deals with the Secret Service Incident and its *ahem* fallout, but the book also discusses the impact of GURPS and more. They even got most of the specifics right. And, perhaps best of all, it depicts Steve and his minions as just the cutest little anthropomorphic pyramid-heads! I've mentally been calling them fnordlings.
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Anyway, if you're a comic fan and enjoy learning about the history of gaming, drop by your local comic shop and see if you can find a copy of Gamemasters! Now I just have to decide whether I shelve this with "books about gaming" or "comics and graphic novels" in my collection . . .