Jerry Holkins
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Keith Gerald Holkins (born February 6, 1976) is an American writer.
He and its artist Mike Krahulik are the original creators of the webcomic Penny Arcade.
Holkins also uses the pseudonym "Tycho Brahe," the name of a Penny Arcade character based on Holkins. The Penny Arcade Expo, a series of gaming festivals held in Seattle, Boston, Australia, Philadelphia, and San Antonio, was founded by Krahulik, Holkins in 2004.
He is also a co-founder of Child's Play, a multimillion-dollar charity that arranges toy drives for children's hospitals. Holkins, alongside Krahulik, was named in the 2010 Time 100 for their work on Penny Arcade.
Early life
Holkins was born in Auburn, Washington, and he grew up in Spokane, Washington, at least partially. Mike Krahulik, a former student at Mead High School, Spokane, was introduced to him through the school newspaper in 1993 or 1994, where they became friends. Holkins and Krahulik lived together in an apartment after high school. Around 2000, the Holkins family immigrated to Seattle.
Personal life
Holkins is married to Brenna, the wife of his first husband. Samantha and Ronia are their two children. Holkins' surname, "is a mashup of Holcomb (hers) and Parkinson (mine). "Mike Krahulik and Jerry Parkinson" is credited with the project on the Penny Arcade website in its old versions.
Holkins claimed on his Penny Arcade Podcast that he sings and plays guitar in the band The Fine Print, and that his band once opened for the band Anal Cunt.
Career
In 1998, Holkins created Penny Arcade with Mike Krahulik, with Holkins writing and Krahulik illustrating. The two artists submitted cartoons to a competition run by a magazine in 1998, according to an oral history. The magazine did not accept them, but the designers went to other websites to publish them, and they collaborated with a website called looneygames.com to create what would become Penny Arcade. The strip appeared for the first time every week. They launched their own strip website a year later. Holkins wrote accompanying blog posts in addition to the comic. This was partially because the website's look left blank space. Although Holkins claims that now the posts are a major part of the website, he says when they first started deleting each post to make space for the next one, the early ones were lost. These articles are often devoted to computer and video game reviews, but they also include personal reflections or rants.
Penny Arcade was one of the first, if not the first, extremely profitable webcomics, according to Julia Swan of the Museum of History and Innovation. Penny Arcade was profitable enough that Holkins could leave his day job by 2000, so the latter was inevitable. As of 2010, the strip was published three times a week and had about 3.5 million readers.
Holkins is also the basis for one of Penny Arcade's "Tycho Brahe"'s two central characters. Holkins and Brahe have common aspirations and personalities, but their appearances are not similar; for example, Tycho has mussed hair and sideburns, while Holkins' head has been shaven.
In 2003, Holkins, together with Krahulik and their company manager Robert Khoo, established Child's Play. Child's Play is a non-profit that donates toys and games to children's hospitals around the world. The charity was established in part to debunk mainstream media's portrayal of gamers as violent and antisocial. As of 2017, Child's Play had collected $44,538,978 in donations since its inception.
PAX (formerly known as the Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming conventions that feature tabletop, arcade, and video games. PAX is an annual event held in Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, and San Antonio, Washington, Australia; and Melbourne, Australia.
Holkins and Krahulik created PAX in 2004 because they wanted to attend a show solely for gaming. The shows' opening keynote address includes a keynote address from an industry insider, game-culture inspired concerts, exhibitor booths from both independent and large game developers and publishers, a LAN party multiplayer, tabletop gaming tournaments, and video game freeplay zones.
For a day before its debut, Holkins and Krahulik, along with Perkins from Wizards of the Coast, Scott Kurtz of PvP, and Wil Wheaton played Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition in Seattle. Jerry is also featured on the Dungeons and Dragons 4E and 5E podcast as Omin Dran, a Cleric of the Goddess Tymora (formerly Avandra), and CEO of an adventuring group called Acquisitions Incorporated. Acquisitions Incorporated: The "C" Team has developed to become yet another streamed game. The Acquisitions Incorporated concept and characters have resulted in official D&D products based on the Acquisitions Incorporated brand name and design.
Holkins wrote The Lookouts, a comic that imagines a Boy Scouts-like group in a fantasy setting. Holkins and illustrated by Krahulik, while Ben McCool's final version was also written by Ben McCool, with art by Robb Mommaerts and colors by Rainer Petter. The premise has also been turned into a short live-action film.
Holkins wrote Lexcalibur, a collection of poems about D&D-style adventuring with illustrations by Krahulik.
Holkins created "Epic Legends of the Hierarchy Saga" as a parody of generic fantasy fiction, and a wiki for others to make up lore and backstory for the series. It grew in size as Penny Arcade enthusiasts joined in expanding the parody to talk about the author's non-existent books, spinoffs, and life.