Muskrat Ramblings

Not of course, that I’m there, or anything… Click here in a few hours, and we’ll see… The lowdown from ICv2 is here. **** Today, Wizards of the Coast confirms that the new edition will launch in May 2008 with the release of the D&D Player’s Handbook. The 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons game includes […]

Bang showbiz August 13, 2007 Jessica Biel swaps bad boys for Scrabble and Apples to Apples The I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry star – who is currently dating sexy singer Justin Timberlake – is tired of “mothering” boys who can’t be saved and prefers nights in with her girlfriends playing games and drinking […]

Dorktower.com’s gone wonky again. Couldn’t FTP anything, couldn’t even post new Muskrat Ramblings, for the last couple of days. Heck, couldn’t even pull it up on my screen. All seems OK now, though…fingers crossed… **** I’m in a weird mood, these days. There’s a lot of potentially huge stuff in the air, all of which […]

Well, damn… Bacon chocolate bars. Seriously. “Crisp, buttery, compulsively irresistible bacon and milk chocolate combination has long been a favorite of mine. I started playing with this combination at the tender age of six while eating chocolate chip pancakes drenched in maple syrup. Beside my chocolate-laden cakes laid three strips of fried bacon, just barely […]

Too busy to blog. But here’s perhaps the best introduction I’ve ever received, from inside the CONvergence 2007 program (see it in its full-sized glory after the jump). Go, Melissa! AKA Iron Artist Lite Brite. Also…a cartoon I did for the Madison Mallards, again. GO MALLARDS!

First: Lotsa new The Good, the Bad and the Munchkin art behind the jump. So, jump away… **** So. Because LiveJournal MySpace and Suicide Girls …just wasn’t enough, I’ve also started up accounts at: Comicspace and Facebook So, yeah…like, friend away… Like I don’t have enough junk to keep track of already. **** Just got […]

Back home now. The Lovely and Talented Judith and I stayed in Minneapolis an extra night, in part because there were severe storms all the way dfown along our drive back, but mostly because CONvergence 2007 was so very, very, very, very, very, very, VERY good, we really wanted to hang out with the con […]

CONvergence is nearly upon us, he said, coming up for air long enough to realize just how close the deadline for The Good, The Bad and the Munchkin is (it’s not so much breathing down my neck as giving me a really nasty hickey). Looking at my calendar, which I don’t do nearly often enough, […]

This is probably one for the FAQ: Dear John Kovalic I am ten years old and really like your drawing. I draw my own monsters and strange creatures, but I really like your cartooning and would like to learn how to draw like you. Please can you teach me how? I am a big fan […]

I believe it was George Harrison who first said “DON’T give the cat Chee-tos, Honey!” No. Wait a second. That was Judith. Yup. That was definitely Judith. Anyway, I’m comfortably sure that at some point it was Harrison who said “All things must pass.” And in that spirit, I finished my last cartoon for Dragon […]