Malkidian Geometry

How does one get the alt text for the new material?

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:57:28 -0700

One way would be to go to the website!

Wondermark #1584; In which a Potato is compacted

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:43:15 -0700

Wondermark #1584; In which a Potato is compacted

Wondermark #1583; Groan Up

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:20:40 -0700

Wondermark #1582; Limit Your Scream Time

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:27:45 -0800

Wondermark #1582; Limit Your Scream Time

Wondermark #1580; What’s Undone is Undead

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:52:13 -0800

Wondermark #1580; What’s Undone is Undead

Wondermark #1579; In which Music is enjoyed

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:42:20 -0800

Wondermark #1579; In which Music is enjoyed

Sometimes you just gotta zig when everyone else thinks you’ll zag.

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:29:57 -0800

Sometimes you just gotta zig when everyone else thinks you’ll zag.

➡️ My card game on Kickstarter (Wondermark meets Frankenstein) has just a few days left !

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:51:46 -0800

My game Bolted! has under 48 hours left on Kickstarter, and I’ve written a “Designer Diary” about some of the game’s development process – parts of which which longtime readers may recognize!

I like sharing this kind of stuff, even though it might spotlight some of my more doofus choices and missteps, because I trust that some people will find the process interesting, and take heart at how a polished outcome can be the result of a long, winding, and setback-filled process.

Does that mean that the final result is definitionally awesome? Well, yes, of course.

This is mainly written for an audience new to the game and new to my work generally. I submitted it to BoardGameGeek for their blog of designer diaries (which will reach an audience that mostly has never heard of me).

I don’t actually know if they’ll publish it, but I wanted to make sure it was published SOMEWHERE, so while I wait to hear back from them, here it is!

Bolted! A Game of Creative Necromancy

When you combine different things, sometimes the result is a chemical reaction. Other times, it’s a surprising creative breakthrough.

I’m the author of the comic strip Wondermark, which is created collage-style out of vintage illustrations. So I’ve long been a champion of “creative re-combination.”

Making comics from collage has both freedoms and limitations. I get to hitch a ride on beautiful artwork from ages past, but I’m also constrained in storytelling (to a degree) by the images I can find.
It means the artwork itself is a creative collaborator. The gestures, expressions, and style of the artwork inform the stories that I tell with them…

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This comic was created as part of a “Secret Santa” comics exchange. These characters are Tiff and…

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:25:09 -0800

This comic was created as part of a “Secret Santa” comics exchange. These characters are Tiff and Eve, and this strip was written by Fran Sundblad, the author of the comic Tiff 🏳️‍⚧️ & Eve, and rendered in Wondermark style by me. Original post is on Reddit here.

Tiff & Eve comics are here

Super secret behind the scenes info here

➡️ My card game on Kickstarter (Wondermark meets Frankenstein) has just a few days left !

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:39:53 -0800

Wondermark #1578; In which Trees are a Lot

the dead trees in the vacant lot are having a hard enough time without you imagining they have an opinion about what’s happening.

➡️ My card game on Kickstarter (Wondermark meets Frankenstein) has just a few days left !

Here is the edited version of Episode 2 of our Bolted! Full Gameplay Series, featuring Sara McHenry,…

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:57:37 -0800

Here is the edited version of Episode 2 of our Bolted! Full Gameplay Series, featuring Sara McHenry, Tom McHenry, Jess Fink, and Eric Colossal.

This is of course my Wondermark card game (on Kickstarter through Dec 20).

I’m really enjoying sharing the game with my friends, and it’s also great to give folks a better picture of how the game itself plays. Each episode is, of course, a complete game from start to finish.

Updated list of upcoming livestreams:

Fri Dec 5 • 10:15am Pacific (NEW TIME) • Webcomics Weekly Block
🐤 Dave Kellett (Sheldon, Drive)
😈 Brad Guigar (Evil Inc, The Webcomics Handbook)
📺 Kris Straub (Chainsawsuit, Local58)
Mon Dec 8 • 3:15pm Pacific • Very Rude Block
🥷 Christopher Hastings (Rude Tales of Magic, Dr. McNinja)
🎨 Carly Monardo (Rude Tales of Magic, Birdgirl)
🦢 Branson Reese (Rude Tales of Magic, Swan Boy)
Tue Dec 9 • 6pm Pacific • Audio Heroes Block
🪕 Molly Lewis (Mollylele)
🎹 Seth Boyer (Skulltenders)
🎤 Jordan Morris (Jordan Jesse Go, Youth Group)
Fri Dec 12 • 1:15pm Pacific • Rad Artists Block
🤼 Scott C. (Great Showdowns, Cabin Head and Tree Head)
🪓 Shing Yin Khor (The Legend of Auntie Po)
🐻 Cat Farris (My Boyfriend is a Bear)

All livestreams will be at: twitch.tv/davidmalki

There are (I think) 4 sessions yet to be announced! Follow me on Bluesky for more frequent updates!

EVERYTHING KC SAYS HERE IS TRUE

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:07:38 -0800

kcggggg:

Hey Folks! I’ll be on a LIVESTREAM playing @davidmalki ’s new game
BOLTED!
We’ll be playing it on his twitch channel here! I’ll be sharing the screen and playing the game with friends Mattie Lubchansky (Simplicity, Boys Weekend) and Tom Harrison (Anime Sickos Podcast), and of course Malki will be there to direct us on how to play! There’s even a CALENDAR EVENT link that Malki made in case you use something like that! I know I’ve been using that a lot lately.
The livestream is THIS MONDAY, DECEMBER 1st @ 12:15pm PST / 3:15pm EST. And you can even check out some former streams Malki did with other guests here! There’s a handy list of livestreaming info on the Kickstarter page for BOLTED in the description to help.
Come and join us, learn the game, check it out on Kickstarter, and be happy and healthy! OR eat a bunch of junk food. It’s your body, you live with it.

EVERYTHING KC SAYS HERE IS TRUE

Here are some Thanksgiving-themed Wondermark comics from over the years!

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:27:20 -0800

Here are some Thanksgiving-themed Wondermark comics from over the years!

A full game of Bolted! (the Wondermark card game) as played by @ryannorth, Gillian Goerz and Pat…

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:56:59 -0800

A full game of Bolted! (the Wondermark card game) as played by @ryannorth, Gillian Goerz and Pat Race!

Gillian delivers a quick super-loop on the very first turn. Will Pat’s stamped head and Ryan’s super-mega-neck-limb be enough to catch up?

Bolted! is the Game of Creative Necromancy. On Kickstarter through Dec 20!

Here’s an animation I made for the Bolted! promo video on Kickstarter!

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:12:05 -0800

Here’s an animation I made for the Bolted! promo video on Kickstarter!

Did you know that it’s now on Kickstarter?

It’s now on Kickstarter (as of now)

I mean, an echo is technically a second opinion

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:40:10 -0800

I mean, an echo is technically a second opinion

Wondermark #1577; The Objective Oracle

I made a puppet of the fearsome creature-crafter Doctor von Gravenstein. My game Bolted! launches…

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:12:37 -0800

I made a puppet of the fearsome creature-crafter Doctor von Gravenstein.

My game Bolted! launches on Kickstarter soon!!

Some Halloween-themed Wondermark comics from over the years!

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:15:22 -0700

Some Halloween-themed Wondermark comics from over the years!

All year long I’ve been working on this: a Wondermark-themed card game about “making friends” (out…

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:52:42 -0700

All year long I’ve been working on this: a Wondermark-themed card game about “making friends” (out of body parts).

I ran a crowdfunding campaign back in the spring for an early version of this game. Now that the time has come to hit the big red PRINT button, I’m reopening preorders for anyone who missed it the first time around.

Follow the project for updates:

Bolted! A Game of Creative Necromancy

Some actual player creations from recent playtests:

Yesterday, @ryannorth, I vowed to dig up EVERYTHING YOU HAVE...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 09:58:59 -0700

Yesterday, @ryannorth, I vowed to dig up EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER WRITTEN and SHOVE IT into the cold light of day.

Today, crammed into a shoebox deep in a file drawer with a bunch of other stuff from 2006, I found this – the script for Friends Forever Till the Universe Explodes. Ryan, I don’t know if you had forgotten completely about this, but I had.

Seeing it all wrinkled and worn brought a flood of memories back. Laughing in restaurants – my first visit to Toronto when we walked around downtown and tried to get onto the roof of that hospital or whatever it was – your first visit to Los Angeles when we got stuck trying to navigate the same intersection in Silverlake for like fifteen minutes – laughing, joking, getting to know one another…and then the realization, in the middle of a Whispered Apologies-related conversation as I recall, that we had the makings of a show.

Writing. Revising. Rehearsing. Being unable to decide whether to hold the show in Los Angeles or Toronto, then coming up with the brilliant idea (for a couple of 25-year-olds) that we should split the difference and hold it in Sutherland, Nebraska, exactly halfway between the two!

It was such a fiasco that we vowed never to speak of it again. Well, I’m sorry, Ryan. I’m sorry that I’m breaking that promise now. I’m sorry that I won’t forget about the thing that brought us together. I’m sorry that I forgot before.

I’m sorry.

Malkidian Geometry

How does one get the alt text for the new material?

Wondermark #1584; In which a Potato is compacted

Wondermark #1583; Groan Up

Wondermark #1582; Limit Your Scream Time

Wondermark #1580; What’s Undone is Undead

Wondermark #1579; In which Music is enjoyed

Sometimes you just gotta zig when everyone else thinks you’ll zag.

This comic was created as part of a “Secret Santa” comics exchange. These characters are Tiff and…

Here is the edited version of Episode 2 of our Bolted! Full Gameplay Series, featuring Sara McHenry,…

Updated list of upcoming livestreams:

EVERYTHING KC SAYS HERE IS TRUE

BOLTED!

Here are some Thanksgiving-themed Wondermark comics from over the years!

A full game of Bolted! (the Wondermark card game) as played by @ryannorth, Gillian Goerz and Pat…

Here’s an animation I made for the Bolted! promo video on Kickstarter!

I mean, an echo is technically a second opinion

I made a puppet of the fearsome creature-crafter Doctor von Gravenstein. My game Bolted! launches…

Some Halloween-themed Wondermark comics from over the years!

All year long I’ve been working on this: a Wondermark-themed card game about “making friends” (out…

Yesterday, @ryannorth​, I vowed to dig up EVERYTHING YOU HAVE...

Yesterday, @ryannorth, I vowed to dig up EVERYTHING YOU HAVE...