Category: Muskrat Ramblings

Yes…it’s me, at last weekend’s Origins convention, in the unfamiliar position of posing with an award I’ve won. We took the Origins Award for “Best Game-Related Short Fiction with “Matt and Gilly’s Big Date” from Dork Tower #11 and now collected in the brand-spanking new DORK SHADOWS: The Collected Dork Tower Vol. II. Or you […]

I’m sitting here delirious, having gotten an hour and a half of sleep last night in Toronto, at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ annual convention. It was a blast. Brash, blustery, bawdy tales will follow. But that’s not why I’m happy right now. I’m happy because I’m sitting here holding a copy of Dork […]

I wasn’t going to announce this, because for a while it didn’t look like it was going to happen. However… I just received an e-mail from Jim Pinto, Art Director for AEG. The Iron Shadow expansion for the Alderac Entertainment Group collectible card game 7th Sea will feature a special promo card: The Dread Pirate […]

Devir, a really cool Brazilian company has asked to translate Dork Covenant, so it will be in Portuguese at last! This completes our sweep of the Major Languages of the Iberian Peninsula and South and Central America, as La Factoria De Ideas of Madrid has started translating Dork Tower in Spanish! (PokeTHULHU is also being […]

First things first: there are two cool new games from Out of the Box out there: Blink and My Word. And though I didn’t do much in the way of illustration for them (the basic artistic direction was it: the graphics and design are mine…but no cartoons), I think they’re both a blast. Blink in […]

First off, there’s only a week to go, as far as voting for the Origins Awards goes. Dork Tower’s up for a couple of awards. But it doesn’t matter WHO you vote for, just vote, and support the Origins Awards! And speaking of awards, CHEZ GEEK won an InQuest Fan Award! The game won the […]

Let’s see if I can get comics up here every day… MONDAY – John’s Sketchbook (The Unspeakable Oaf) TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY – DORK TOWER SATURDAY – John’s Sketchbook (Murphy’s Rules) Lemme know how you like the new daily lineup! John

In case you missed it, I’ll be signing books and hanging with some other real cool folks at Lost World of Wonders this weekend in Milwaukee. Here’s the lowdown: Celebrate the grand re-opening of Lost World of Wonders with their 3 guests, John Kovalic of Dork Tower, Jolly Blackburn of Knights of the Dinner Table, […]

First up: here’s the full, finished cover of Scrye 8.5 (dated August, but on sale this week). Pardon me for geeking out about having the Dork crew on the cover. Grin. Secondly, while the Dork Tower comic strip takes a few days to look at the D20 phenomenon (the series starts HERE if you’re just […]

I’m still amazingly busy here. Lot’s of stuff going to press this week. DORK SHADOWS, The Collected Dork Tower Vol. II, for example. And The Best of Dork Tower #1, a 32-page comic packed with the very best strips from the first six issues of the comics. (Note: there is NO new material in this […]