Muskrat Ramblings

DORK TOWER has been nominated for two prestigious ORIGINS AWARDS this year: Best Game-Related Short Work of 2000 Matt and Gilly’s Big Date appearing in Dork Tower #11 Author: John Kovalic Dork Storm Press Best Professional Game Periodical of 2000 Dork Tower Editor: John Kovalic Dork Storm Press, Corsair Publishing In addition, my design work […]

Announcing three Dorky new Mailing Lists! Warhamster, PokeTHULHU, Mud Bay Today! These should supplement the Dork Tower and Muskrat-L mailing lists. WARHAMSTER-L For discussion of the WARHAMSTER game and other licensed Dork Tower games (including Chez Dork, Warhamster Rally and games printed in the comic book). Huzzah! Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/warhamster-l or mail warhamster-l-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to subscribe. ———————————————————————————— […]

Here’s another PRESS RELEASE, this time one those nuts at COSMIC ENCOUNTER put out. (And yes, I knew I said I was giving up most game illustration. But this is different. This is COSMIC FREAKING ENCOUNTER! Like you think I’m going to turn down doing a few cards for THEM?) Cosmic Encounter Online meets DORK […]

PRESS RELEASE “WARHAMSTER RALLY” AT THE GATE JOLLY ROGER GAMES PRODUCES FIRST LICENSED DORK TOWER GAME (April 16, 2001) Madison, WI- Jolly Rogers Games in conjunction with Dork Storm Press will be release “WARHAMSTER RALLY“, the first licensed board game based on the DORK TOWER comic book WARHAMSTER world, June, 2001. “The game is a […]

DORK TOWER 13’s Blue Lines came in, and the comic itself should be back next week. HUZZAH! MORE good news: even though it’s not in Madison, the POKETHULHU Roleplaying Game ($5.95) has shipped from the printer! Last bit of grand news (for now, anyway), Steve Jackson Games just set a date for MUNCHKIN, a game […]

Why so few updates recently? Well, the good news is because I’ve been so busy. In a couple of weeks, I’m off to Hanover for the weekend of April 28/29, for Hanover Spiel — so right now I’ve got to build up a bit of a backlog on the comic strips. While I’m there, I’ll […]

Well, I no longer have a cold or medication to excuse acting like a chowderhead. So why I completely forgot to post today’s strip from Interactive Weekis beyond me! Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me about it. I was out of the house having lunch with some members of the Army of Dorknesswhen I remembered. […]

I’m getting over what is apparently now known as the GAMA crud, and beginningto function like ma normal human being. So ya want some big news from GAMA? How’s this: The nominees for the 2000 Origins Awards, the adventure gaming industry’s equivalent ofthe Oscars, have been announced. The nominees are selected by vote of the […]

I’m back from the GAMA (Games Manufacturer’s Association) Trade Show in Las Vegas, suffering from what seems to have been a nasty case ofthe crud that was going around. Not sure what it is, but it became a pretty fierce head cold today. The convention was marvelous, by the way. All the retailers seemed VERY […]

POKETHULHUHAS GONE TO PRESS! “Ichoose YOU, Pikathulhu!” It’s an endless summer vacation in the land of the dead. The POKETHULHU- adorable eldritch monsters from the icy depths of space – run wild in the swamps, the forest, and even the cobwebs and sagging gambrel roofs of the fishing village that you call home. POKETHULHU is […]