Well, for the past couple of years I've wanted to do something that combined my past as a chef with my current interest in comics (for those who don't know, I do the webcomics Cocktail Hour and Where the Geeks Are). The idea is finally coming together.
What to Feed Your Raiding Party will be half comic book and half cookbook and written with gamers as the primary audience though I hope it will also appeal to lovers of geek culture in general. Divided into 5 sections, each will open with a 6-12 page comic featuring a core cast of characters--a gamer guy, his dog, and a gamer girl--who've been sent on a series of food-related quests (that share some basic concepts with geek films and books--I'm not at all above parodies and puns!). Following that will be 10-15 recipes that share some aspect of the story that just preceded it (the sections being appetizers/snacks; loafs, casseroles, etc.; grilling; soups and stews; and desserts & beverages). To facilitate both the feeding of small groups or families as well as larger groups, each recipe will feature a chart of ingredients factored out for 4, 8 and 12 servings as well as nutritional data with a twist: carbs will be represented as health or constitution, protein as strength and fats as dexterity modifiers. Each will also be rated with experience and equipment levels to make it easy to navigate for the beginning cook as well as some interesting items for the more experienced cook. I'll be illustrating certain techniques throughout the book (knife skills, visual definitions, etc.), too. (Shameless self-promotion follows) I'm using Kickstarter.com as a platform to raise the funds required to bring this project from idea to reality--mainly to cover the printing costs (150 pages perfect bound, with an initial quantity of 250), ISBN registration, nutritional software and art supplies. In return, backers receive private-access production updates and a variety of other rewards based on pledge level (everything from copies of the book to original art to recipes named after the backer). Hence the current "media blitz" that I'm on. Even MORE details on the project can be found on the Kickstarter page. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/randomactscomics/what-to-feed-your-raiding-party-a-comic-book-cook-0 Jenn On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:55 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Jen - That's great! Congrats! You'll have to tell us more about your > cookbook. > > The Irredeemable Shag > http://firestormfan.com > http://onceuponageek.com > http://twitter.com/onceuponageek > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [The Unique Geek] Happy Jack's RPG Podcast > From: Jennifer Walker <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, November 23, 2009 9:23 am > To: [email protected] > > Just wanted to mentioned that I was interviewed on the Happy Jack's RPG > Podcast <http://www.happyjacks.org/?p=367> last night about my > gamer-centric comic book-cookbook, What to Feed Your Raiding Party. It was a > lot of fun chatting with their crew and it's a fun podcast to listen to, in > general so check it out, if you're curious. > > I'm also slated for RPG Circus later this week and All Games Considered in > early December. > > ------- > Jennifer "Scraps" Walker > Random Acts Comics > http://www.randomactscomics.com > > "What to Feed Your Raiding Party" funding now on Kickstarter.com > http://www.bit.ly/WtFYRP > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
