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 Playing Pieces 
 
Playing Pieces
"Pairs of Squares Game"
By Oliver Selfridge
Spider (January, 1994)
 
Media: Colored ink
 
These are playing pieces for a board game created by Oliver Selfridge, one-time director of the Computer Museum in Boston. I'm not sure what inspired me to draw from Roman themes to illustrate this game, but there you are: the cat was based on a charming Roman mosaic of a naughty cat who had just caught a barnyard hen, while the dog came from the unfortunate pooch preserved in the lava flow at Pompei.