Muskrat Ramblings

It’s been a very strange week here. First off, the bad news. Monday morning I got a call from my editor at Interactive Week, telling me that, due to the prolonged slump in advertising, the magazine was folding. Or rather, parts of it were being folded into its Ziff-Davis sister publication, E-Week. This last Monday’s […]

You may not know this, but I once thought of myself as lazy. Seriously. Though Dork Tower has been coming out in regular bimonthly intervals recently, and Dork Tower #15 should be back from the press in a few weeks, getting caught up with the backlog is still a way off. So we’ve come up […]

* The Gaming Industry Disaster Fund Auction is still going on and strong. Check it out! * DORK TOWER made the cover of Comics Buyer’s Guide this week! It’s CBG # 1459, and it should be in stores now (or at least close to now). There’s a story on Dork Storm Press, and Aaron and […]

The Gaming Industry Disaster Fund Auction is a really cool site set up by some Gaming Industry luminaries to aid the Red Cross and recovery efforts in New York and Washington. There are a couple of items I’ve posted that I thought folks might like to know about. But there are a TON of neat […]

I’m canceling all my Autumn conventions, except for Rock Con (Rockford, Il, Oct. 13, 14). Unfortunately, and heartbreakingly, this includes Essen (Germany) and Archon (St. Louis). Next year, I’ll be doing VERY few conventions. San Diego Comicon and Chicago Wizard World look like they’ll be casualties. Origins and GenCon will probably be my only Summer […]

It was a Northwest DC-9, flying from Madison to Minneapolis. I lookedup at it as it arced a trail against a beautiful, clear sky, and slowlydisappeared from sight. And my heart leapt for joy. It was a PLANE again! I wanted to be on that plane. Iwant to be on ANY plane right now. I […]

"Secret mission? What plans? What are you talking about?" Itcan now be told. I’mofficially allowed to play in George Lucas’ sandbox. I’ve just hadmy first cartoons accepted to StarWars Insider, and it looks like it may be the start of a regulargig. This is important for a couple of reasons. 1) This isSTAR WARS we’re […]

DORKTOWER made the cover of SequentialTart, one of THE coolest web sites around! And they even interviewedme.Go figure. AaronWilliams also shared Cover Boy duties (hit "reload"once or twice when you get to the cover). Othergood news: Dork Shadows was Maggie Thompson’s two picks ofthe week last week in Comics Buyers’ Guide (and the other wasa […]

Life’s nice and quiet here in Madison. I’m still recovering from the convention schedule, and trying to get back into the discipline of drawing a page of the comic book a day. Several folks have asked if the conventions went badly, based on Wednesday’s cartoon (now linked). Anything but. At Wizard World, sales were great. […]

…for about a week. Chicago Wizard World was great. We almost made as many sales there as we did at the enormous San Diego Comicon, and had a ton of cool, fun folks stop by the booth. But I’ll tell more later. I’m exhausted. In the meantime, here are two highlights: meeting Erin Grey, of […]