Cartooner/Mangaka

A game about drawing comics! The way it works is you deal out cards from the deck and draw comics based on the prompts you get. The game is played over several rounds, with the rules changing each round as new trends sweep through the comics industry, so in one round you might get points for working in a romantic subplot, while in the next, you might get points based on how many of the characters you can kill off.

I love this game because of the hilarious absurdity that you get when you try to somehow mash everything into a coherent story in just a few panels. It works with a group of any size—you can play with a party of ten people, or do a solo run and try for a high score to practice your drawing skills. Best of all, your actual skill with a pencil has no effect whatsoever on your score! It's your creativity that counts, even if the best you can do is a stickman.

(The difference between the two is that Mangaka is about drawing Japanese-style manga, while Cartooner focuses more on American-style comics. Other than that, the rules are the same.)