Penny Arcade

This article is about the webcomic. For the coin-operated device, see Penny arcade. For other uses, see Penny Arcade (disambiguation).

Penny Arcade
Author(s)Jerry Holkins
Mike Krahulik
Websitewww.penny-arcade.com
Current status/scheduleMonday, Wednesday, Friday
Launch dateNovember 18, 1998[1]
Syndicate(s)Penny Arcade, Inc.
Genre(s)Gaming, humor, satire

Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website loonygames.com.[2] Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have established their own site, which is typically updated with a new comic strip each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The comics are accompanied by regular updates on the site's blog.

By 2005, Penny Arcade was among the most popular and longest running webcomics online,[3][4] listed in 2010 as having 3.5 million readers.[5] Holkins and Krahulik were among the first webcomic creators successful enough to make a living from their work.[6] In addition to the comic, Holkins and Krahulik also created Child's Play, a children's charity; PAX, a gaming convention; Penny Arcade TV, a YouTube channel;[7] Pinny Arcade, a pin exchange; and the episodic video game Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness with Hothead Games and Zeboyd Games.

  1. ^ Holkins, Jerry; Krahulik, Mike (November 18, 1998). "The SIN Of Long Load Times". Penny Arcade.
  2. ^ "Check out our first original comic strip!". Loonygames. 1 (13). loonyboi productions. November 16–20, 1998. Archived from the original on October 2, 1999. Retrieved July 26, 2009.
  3. ^ Maragos, Nich (November 7, 2005). "Will Strip for Games". 1UP.com. Ziff Davis. p. 4. Archived from the original on June 28, 2006. Retrieved December 13, 2006.
  4. ^ "The 2010 TIME 100 Poll: The Penny Arcade Co-Creators". Time. April 1, 2010. Archived from the original on April 4, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
  5. ^ Geddes, John (April 2, 2010). "'Penny Arcade' a testament to the power of gaming culture". USA Today. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  6. ^ MacDonald, Heidi (December 19, 2005). "Web Comics: Page Clickers to Page Turners; It's like manga five or six years ago". Publishers Weekly, p. 24.
  7. ^ "pennyarcadeTV". YouTube. Retrieved September 6, 2016.