Category: Muskrat Ramblings

Stewart Heinz e-mailed me this, yesterday. John, Spotted the attached on Lake Mendota this evening. Cheers, Stew Why…why, LOOK: It’s…it’s a MUSKRAT! And it’s…rambling. Coolio. **** I needed that to cheer me up, because right now, it looks like I’ll be missing the GAMA Trade Show, in Las Vegas. It’s almost always a grand time, […]

Here it is. The end. Many of you should now see why I find Alex Robinson’s comics and graphic novels among the finest, most satisfying I’ve ever read. “Box Office Poison” and “Tricked” were both superb, and I was flattered when he asked me to write the intro to “BOP”, a collection of Box Office […]

Today marks the start of a four-part Dork Tower story done by none other than my really great pal, Alex Robinson (aka Alexbot3000 on LiveJournal). It really is very, very good, and I’m unbelievably happy to be running it here. I’m using my LiveJournal Pages to run a larger sized version of the comic than […]

Well, it COULD have run a day late, too. Still, Dork Tower – the annual April 1 Gust Artist version – is up. Do frequent Alex Robinson’s various sites, and buy his stuff. It’s phenomenal. *** Finally got around to updating my “Appearances” page on the ol’ web site. Here’s what’s in the works: GAMA […]

According to this news story, Jessica Alba is addicted to Apples to Apples. Or so she blogged, yesterday. “She’s taken to her blog to reveal her love of ham and cheese sandwiches – and now Jessica Alba is e-confessing another love: board games. “Been playing a lot of board games lately,” she writes in a […]

I got a marvelous letter from Weather Channel meteorologist Warren Madden the other day, regarding those weatherman-related cartoons I did a while back. Hi John! Just wanted to drop you a line and say I have enjoyed your vengeance upon my profession. Sometimes we deserve it (like the time I called for a dusting of […]

Today’s Dork Tower is mostly channeling Lenny Bruce’s classic “All Broadway musicals sound the same” skit, to me… I went through three different rewordings until it sounded close to what I intended. Maybe I’ll post them, so you can see the (lack of) thought process that goes behind a simple four-panneler… *** A couple of […]

Many reprint requests from stores and readers for Wednesday’s cartoon, which is very humbling. I made it into a couple of large-resolution files, if anybody would like a copy for whatever reason. An 8.5 x 11 300 dpi TIFF file can be found here: An 8.5 x 11 300 dpi JPEG file can be found […]

I found myself at <a href=http://www.pegasusgames.comPegasus Games (the shop Pegasaurus Games in Dork Tower is based on) last night. It’s been a while since I was back there. Too long, in fact. I was sort of surprised that the store was open as late as it was, as I drove past it. So I stopped […]

Troll Lord Games is reporting Gary Gygax is dead, at age 69. Damn it. What’s your favorite Gary Gygax memory? John