Muskrat Ramblings

ITEM ONE : If anybody need me, I’ll be at the Laugh Lines Comedy Club for the next couple of nights, as my friendSteveMarmel takes the stage. Steve is headlining until Sunday,and it’s always a blast when he’s in town. We’re also celebrating some great news that both of us have had recently. Steve’s also […]

ITEM ONE : HUGE thanks go out to James Haughton and Hendrik and Trina Mell, who all become Supply Sergeants in the Army of Dorkness forsending me some Cheese Twisties (the GREATEST cheese-based snack-food in the world)from Australia. I now have stocks enough to last through the Spring (the Blinking Billies gummi Koalas were also […]

Stop me before I design again: O K, with great power comes great responsibility. And obviously CAFEPRESS.COM is a great power I’m abusing horribly right now. All I have to say is this: Available from Maxwell’s T-Shirt cart. Pick one up NOW before I develop a sense of shame and remove it forever in a […]

Item One: First off, thanks to the folks at MEMEPOOL.COMfor sending a TON of people to these little ol’ pages. Here’s what they had to say about DorkTower.com on Tuesday: “Dork Tower is a wonderful comic drawn by John Kovalic. It’s a humorous story about the trials and tribulations of a bunch of gamers. Unlike […]

First off, my wife, the lovely and talented Judith, and I had a fabulous time at the Matthew Sweet concert. It was a bit shaky here and there, but overall it was a blast. Surprisingly, most of the songs seemed to come from his early-90s album, "Altered Beast." But that’s an AWFULLY good album, so […]

I will admit that Doryand Reyne and the lovely and talented Judith and I all hit the Gridiron(a local watering hole with VERY fine grub) tonight to watch the season finale of "Temptation Island". You know: "Temptation Island," on Fox. The worst show in the history of broadcast toever have BEEN broadcast? "Attack of the […]

Nothing captures my imagination more than new sights and sounds, foreign cultures and exotic climes. And it’s VERY good for my gaming. Because of far-flung adventure, you ask? No, because I despise flying. I’m six-foot-four. The average plane seat, it’s common knowledge, is built with the comfort level of one who’s four-foot-two in mind. (The […]

Here’s the cover for Dork Tower 13, which goes to press (finally) next week! (Click on it or on the above link for the full-size version). Aaron Williams, the mad genius behind NODWICK, drew it. I’m starting to get really excited about this issue. I think it will be great — it clocks in at […]

Spent much of the weekend tracking down elusive Matthew Sweet tickets for his Wednesday night concert. Which is something I hadn’t figured on doing, given that when I called Mad City Music on Friday (where the tickets were on sale), the woman I spoke with said they had plenty left. “So they won’t sell out?” […]

It’s Friday, and there’s a NEW Dork Tower at Pyramid Magazine Online, if you’re a subscriber! Me? I’m psyched. Yesterday was a VERY good day. I discovered Matthew Sweet will be playing in Madison next Wednesday, and my pal Steve Marmel is going to be performing in town next month. I love how small things […]