John's Blog

As some of you kids may have heard, I had an eight-month-ish period where my wonderful business manager moved on to greener pastures, and I kinda went crazy, taking on far more work than any sane cartoonist should have. Yes, I used the words “sane” and “cartoonist” together. SHUT UP! The end result of this ridiculously overworked […]

 SOUP’S ON! I did some kitchen improv and came up with an approximation for an easy, tasty soup I tried a few years ago, in Morocco. But before getting to that, I want to post a couple of quick things that blew me away, and helped turn a relatively lousy day into a delightful one. Yesterday started out crummy, […]

HEY, EVERY GAME-STORE FOLKS and GAMERS EVERYWHERE! Remember this Dork Tower comic? Here’s something. FOR YOU! Click on the image to download a high-res copy of this “Throne of Gamers” sign, FOR YOUR VERY OWN GAME-STORE RESTROOM! EDIT: My great friend Mike Selinker came up with the line “Winter is Plumbing” after I used the line […]

Rabbit rabbit! Happy July, and hello to this little guy who appeared in our backyard. It’s been an incredible week of high temperatures and heavy storms, flooding and tornadoes that were too close for comfort. Nobody hurt, fortunately. But it’s left Daughter, Age 5, unsettled. I’ll take the blame for that. Several months ago, at a charity […]

Hey, gang! WE’RE DOIN’ IT AGAIN! Because of YOU, Team Duck-On-The-Helmet (i.e., me) raised more than $4,000 to support the FairShare CSA Coalition’s Bike the Barns ride in 2013! THAT WAS MORE THAN 10% OF THEIR GRAND TOTAL RAISED! So this year…I’ve upped our goal to $5,000! If we get there, I will AGAIN do the ride with a Duck […]

Good GRIEF, guys, Origins is just crazy this year. Such tremendous fun So many signings! Seeing so many old friends again! This is a hugely-higgledy-piggledy rushed update to let folks know my schedule for the next couple of days: THURSDAY, June 12: I’ll be the Guest of Honor at the  Munchkin Tavern at the Crowne Plaza, at 7 pm. Ie […]

  One last time: EVERYONE GOT THEIR CHARITY COLORING BOOKS BY NOW, right? Good. Coolcoolcool. Me? I’m bouncing off the walls, at the moment. Because I’m packing for the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio, this weekend! It’s a bit of an odd feeling, as I’ve not been to the show in seven or eight years, best as […]

  First off: EVERYONE GOT THEIR CHARITY COLORING BOOKS BY NOW, right? Anyway, here’s a new drawing of Matt and Gilly I just finished. Gilly is back in her black Perky Goth garb for the first time in years. So I suppose this counts as a #ThrowbackThursday on some level. Why am I thinking about (and drawing) Matt and […]

You may remember that last year, I went on an insane 70-mile bike ride. For charity. Mostly you may remember this because I keep reminding you about it. Over and over and over. You guys helped me raise an insane amount of money at Bike the Barns, to benefit the Fair Share CSA coalition. I had hoped to raise […]

So, a few months back, Paul and Storm asked me to do one of two variant covers for their new album, BALL PIT. I was quite literally honored beyond words. I wanted to create something special for them. Something very special. It took weeks for the perfect idea to hit. But apparently I ignored that one. […]