Dungeons & Dragons in Popular Culture - Comics

Comics

Begun in 1986, the comic books The Adventurers and Redfox were inspired by Dungeons & Dragons. Several commercial comic strips are based entirely upon the game or make reference to the game in specific panels.

  • Knights of the Dinner Table is a multiple award-winning comic-sized magazine featuring comic strips with a variety of characters who play "HackMaster," a parody of Dungeons & Dragons. (HackMaster would later go on to become an actual role-playing game.) Early strips appeared in the official D&D magazine Dragon.
  • Questionable Content, webcomic; appearing in Comic #963, "Raven Levels Up", and others
  • Schlock Mercenary, webcomic; Referenced in the comic of 11 November 2007
  • The Order of the Stick is an award-winning satirical webcomic that features a cast of characters in a world that loosely operates by the rules of Dungeons & Dragons.
  • D&D co-creator Gary Gygax was commemorated in webcomics series xkcd's comic #393, "Ultimate Game".

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