The oatmeal
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| Cartoon page | |
| languages | English |
| operator | Matthew Inman |
| Registration | No |
| On-line | 2009 (currently active) |
| http://www.theoatmeal.com/ | |
The Oatmeal is a website by the American cartoonist Matthew Inman (born September 24, 1982 ). Inman lives in Seattle , Washington , operates the website from there and regularly uploads new cartoons, pictures, and other articles.
Website
The website was founded by Inman on July 6th, 2009. In the first three years it developed into one of the most visited cartoon sites in the world and at that time had around 7 million visitors a month.
Inman prefers to draw cartoons with animals in interaction with people, Nikola Tesla or tells of his personal life experiences in comics. He also occasionally takes a position on political issues in his cartoons .
In 2010 Inman uploaded the Tumbeasts he had created to the website in "The State of the Web (Winter 2010)" . They were a parody of the server problems that the Tumblr website had been increasing at the time. He offered Tumblr to use the drawing to display it instead of the traditional reference to the server crash. Tumblr complied with the offer and actually used the image several times on its own page.
The Oatmeal won the Eisner Award for best digital / webcomic in 2014 .
Projects at Kickstarter
Together with the game developer and author Elan Lee , Inman started projects that were published and promoted via the The Oatmeal website on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter .
Exploding Kittens
Main article: Exploding Kittens
The first game Inman and Lee released together was a card game . Exploding Kittens was Kickstarter's most supported card game at $ 8,782,571 at the end of its crowdfunding in 2015 .
The game was illustrated by Inman with cat cartoons and works according to the last-man-standing principle, which is popular in computer games . With Imploding Kittens , an expansion pack was released in 2016.
Bears vs. Babies
The second game by Lee and Inman published on Kickstarter is also a card game. The game is called Bears vs. Babies and was supported less than Exploding Kittens at $ 3,215,679 over the period of one month (October to November 2016) , but it far exceeded the manufacturers' crowdfunding requirements .
This card game demands more skill in planning and building from the players. Before the final launch , Inman looked for game testers on his website to try out the game beforehand.
Web links
- oatmeal.com - official website
- Official website of Exploding Kittens
- Official website of Bears vs. Babies
Individual evidence
- ^ Todd Leopold: From grains of 'Oatmeal,' big things for cartoonist . January 31, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ^ Matthew Inman: Tumblr goes down . Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Eisner Award winner , listed at comic-con.org
- ↑ Exploding Kittens at Kickstarter.com
- ↑ Imploding Kittens at boardgamegeek.com
- ↑ Bears vs. Babies at Kickstarter.com
- ↑ "Bears vs. Babies": The follow-up to "Exploding Kittens" is a hit . October 24, 2016. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Play test locations for Bears vs Babies ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
