Brian Clevinger is an American

United States

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 writer best known as the author of the webcomic

Webcomic

Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....

 8-Bit Theater

8-Bit Theater

8-Bit Theater is a completed sprite comic created by Brian Clevinger, and published in 1,225 episodes from March 2, 2001 to June 1, 2010. One of the most popular web comics, it won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for best fantasy comic in 2002...

and the Eisner

Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...

-nominated print comic Atomic Robo

Atomic Robo

Atomic Robo is a comic book series depicting the adventures of the eponymous character, created by 8-Bit Theater writer Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener.-Publication history:...

. He is also the author of the self-published novel Nuklear Age.
Clevinger's webcomic, 8-Bit Theater

8-Bit Theater

8-Bit Theater is a completed sprite comic created by Brian Clevinger, and published in 1,225 episodes from March 2, 2001 to June 1, 2010. One of the most popular web comics, it won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for best fantasy comic in 2002...

, which is hosted on his site Nuklear Power, is very loosely based on the video game Final Fantasy I

Final Fantasy (video game)

is a fantasy role-playing video game created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, developed and first published in Japan by Square in 1987. It is the first game in Square's Final Fantasy series...

and tells the story of four would-be fantasy heroes

Characters of 8-Bit Theater

The events in the webcomic 8-Bit Theater center around four major characters — the Light Warriors — and a number of minor ones. Many of the characters are based on characters from the original Final Fantasy, but are highly satirized and parodied, most of them being comically foolish and inept.-The...

, known as the Light Warriors, who set out to save the world from the embodiment of Chaos, but are conflicted over their own stupidity and malice.