Blow The Cartridge was a weekly webcomic about retro gaming by Cameron Davis about the games we wasted our youth on playing, how weird they were, and why they're still important to us today.
Comic history[]
Blow The Cartridge - Pac-Man
Blow The Cartridge started as an offshoot of Davis' Funny Webcomic and grew in popularity until it warranted its own site in 2011. It was updated every Wednesday and featured over 200 strips.
It has featured in Kotaku Australia, Game Informer magazine, and occasionally Joystiq.
In August 2023, the website's domain name expired and become a splog.[1]
On May 17, 2024, Cameron Davis passed away.[2]
Popular strips and themes[]
Blow The Cartridge - Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!
The most popular strips concerned themselves with the Nintendo Entertainment System, although Davis would've much rathered be doing comics about the Commodore 64.
The archive also featured many comics about the long-running Street Fighter series of games that the artist was absolutely terrible at but still continued to purchase year after year.
The website also had a continually-running poll that invited readers to vote for what game should be parodied next. Readers could also email suggestions that would be replied to one day.
Print collections[]
Blow The Cartridge #3
While Blow The Cartridge was primarily a webcomic, new print collections were released every year, each being over 30 pages and in full colour.
In November 2013, Davis unveiled a Kickstarter campaign for Super Blow The Cartridge — a 120+ print (and digital) collection of all the Blow The Cartridge comics made so far with new material. In reached its target within five hours and hit double the target within a day. He denied rumours he wa buying a yacht.