English prof, cultural commentator, video game scholar and suspected literary critic, Barry Atkins also happens to be a pretty good cartoonist. I discovered this talent while sitting next to Barry during the Princeton Video Game conference. i was taking notes. he was carefully doodling a space adventurer with a ray gun.

Barry seems unwilling to give up his post at Manchester Metropolitan University to pursue fame and glory as a cartoonist. But he was willing to share some of this work online. Barry's cartoons are ironic and smart--just the sort of sharp wit you'd expect from an English teacher who likes to play video games.

To my mind, video games has found its Doonesbury.