Who is John
Kovalic?
John
Kovalic is a cartoonist extraordinaire and creator of the award-winning* comic book Dork Tower. With
Christopher Jones and Melissa Kaercher, Kovalic creates the full-color
comic Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink.
With Liz Rathke, Kovalic created another comic called SnapDragons.
Born Robert John Kovalic in Manchester, England, UK, in a year that
shall remain a mystery; Kovalic is both a citizen of the US and
the UK. Another mystery is how he decided to attend the
University of Wisconsin at Madison
(in the USA) and study Economics and
Astrophysics. Kovalic worked for The
Daily Cardinal, one of
UW-Madison's two student papers, where he developed the comic strip Wild Life that introduced his
central character: Carson
the Muskrat.
After graduation Kovalic stayed in Madison and worked for one of the
local city papers, The Wisconsin
State Journal. He proposed to his wife, who will
always be
referred to as "The Lovely and Talented Judith," in his Wild Life comic strip, and the
results created a
very funny story for Madison Magazine.
TL&T
Judith encouraged John to leave his day job.
Kovalic is now co-owner and Art Director of Out of the Box Games.
He publishes all his comics under his imprint Dork Storm Press,
which
also publishes three comics by Aaron
Williams: Nodwick,
PS 238,
and Full
Frontal Nerdity.
More information about John can
be found at the following links:
From
the Dork Tower website
From
the Dr. Blink website
From
the SnapDragons website
Written by Lori
Ann Curley,
April 2005
*
Dork Tower has won several Origins Awards: 2001 - Best Short Fiction; 2002 - Best
Professional Gaming Periodical; 2003 - Best Professional
Gaming Periodical, Best Graphic Short Fiction.
