Just one month after purchasing GamerDNA, the promising stat-driven video game community site, Crispy Gamer has laid off its entire editorial staff, on the authority of the company’s board of directors. We’re told Chris Heldman, the CEO, former head of media entertainment at Google and co-founder of Crispy Gamer, has resigned in protest. Last September, Crispy’s other co-founder, John Keefer, left to join the editorial staff of the influential GamePolitics blog.
This included the loss of the comics section, which Experience Points was originally commissioned for in 2008.
What will happen to Experience Points? Not totally sure, but for now, rest assured that I have no plans to kill it. It’s more of an issue of where will I run it / keep it / grow it, etc. I just don’t know yet. I own the rights, so it’s up to me. I do know that I am extremely grateful to the guys at Crispy Gamer that allowed me to create this new property, and turn it into something kind of special. Particularly John Keefer.
Gonna miss the money. 
Anyway, that’s that. Here’s the article as posted on Joystiq today. While the comic creators were not mentioned there, we were contacted directly by people at Crispy Gamer and notified that way.
UPDATE: New home found!
IMHO, you should run it on extra life and make it part of the extra life comic reader app. I really enjoy both comics and seeing them on the same site would be cool!!!
That’s too bad about Crispy Gamer, best of luck and a big thanks for all their hard work to all affected by this. I look forward to seeing more Steve and Vincent in the future!
Vince & Steve are employees. I wouldn’t expect them to work for free. …but if they didn’t, who would I be to complain.
You know Scott it’s not like you do either of these comics daily
So I can easily see you do a couple days of your normal stuff and the Experience Points being fillers.
I am sure you thought of this just putting in my vote.
OMG i live this comic, i was there from the begging and its totally relate able!!!
sad to hear scott! Please man, you have to keep this comic going though, I like it better than the extralife one
Also Steve is my hero
“…run it / keep it / grow it, etc.” on your stylishly awesome iPhone app. Like, exclusively or something.
Or maybe talk to Valve. They still have Penny Arcade on the Steam front page, right?
As long as Vince and Steve continue on, all is well.
Maybe a collaborative effort with Ducks Unlimited?
When I first heard about the news your comic was the first thing to come to my mind. That sucks and I hope we still get to see this as often as it was on CG. Its one of my favs!
Well to toss in my 2 cents. sorry I cant give 3 Im poor right now. I love to see a full on Scott Johnson blow out Gamer site. Where you and your fiends can post about games and gaming in general. I now there is the instance. But there are games coming out and you have tried that Id like to hear about. So that my Idea.
Man I need a catch phrases hmmm “buxley best severed why still hot”
Sad to hear that, I hope you keep it alive. Maybe an iPhone app which would be awesome, or an actual comic book
I think Steve has been holding Vince back. He should break out on his own and do a new silent strip. The duck opinion on gaming is highly un-tapped.
Man that sucks. I hope you keep the comic updated here, or anywhere really, I love it. Thank you for all of your hard work, hopefully someone will pick it up and pay you for it.
Wait, is Steve the duck..? That certainly changes things…
Damn I really enjoyed those comics. Shame.
I would run it at least once a week and try to keep growing it as a stand-alone available property. Maybe let it post as a Sunday update with a sub-page devoted to it’s marketing. Hopefully you can eventually get it running for pay on another property.
Crispy Gamer was terrible… last I was there, the while site was basically text… it looked like one of those fake link portal sites, mixed with text ads and such… horrible, horrible design. I tried the site for a long time in the beginning… it never got any better. A dyslexic’s nightmare of a site.
Upon looking at it again, it looks WAY better now, but for the longest time, it looked like sheer crap with almost only text everywhere… Then again, now the site’s images seem to be mostly ADS… unwelcoming to me.
I know you deleted some comments Scott. Naughty list!