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John Kovalic
John Kovalic
	Kovalic at Lucca Comics & Games in 2014
Born	24 November 1962 (age 62); Manchester, England
Occupation(s)	Cartoonist, illustrator, and writer
Spouse	Judith Kovalic

John Kovalic (born Robert John Kovalic, Jr. on 24 November 1962) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and writer.

Career

Born in Manchester, England, Kovalic is best known for his Dork Tower comic book, comic strip, and webcomic, and other humorous work set in and about the fantasy role-playing game genre, such as The Unspeakable Oaf. He has illustrated board and card games for several companies, including Steve Jackson Games (notably the Munchkin card game,^[1] plus its many expansions and derivatives, and Chez Geek and its derivatives), Cumberland Games & Diversions (Pokéthulhu), and the third edition of Fantasy Flight Games's Mag Blast. He was also the sole illustrator for the "Super Deluxx" edition of Kobolds Ate My Baby! and has subsequently occasionally featured supplemental KAMB material in the Dork Tower comic book.

Kovalic is a co-founder and co-owner of Out of the Box Publishing.^[2] He is also the company's art director and designer of the 2003 trivia party game Whad'Ya Know?, based on Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?, as well as the illustrator of Apples to Apples.

Kovalic is an editorial cartoonist for the Wisconsin State Journal.^[2] His work has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and he continues to freelance for Milwaukee's The Daily Reporter.^[2] He has also worked for CARtoons Magazine. He is also the writer of the comic Doctor Blink Superhero Shrink, which is penciled and inked by Christopher Jones and colored and lettered by Melissa Kaercher.

Honors

Kovalic's cartoons are multi–Origins Award–winners and have been nominated for two Harvies—for best cartoonist and the special award for humor in comics.^[2] USA Today called Kovalic a "Hot Pick".^[2] In 2003, Kovalic became the first cartoonist inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming's Hall of Fame.^[2]

Kovalic has thrice been a guest of honor—in 2003, 2007, and 2008—at the science, science fiction, and fantasy convention CONvergence.,^[3] and on multiple occasions at Warpcon in Cork, Ireland.

List of games illustrated

Kovalic has provided illustrations for large number of games, including:^[4]

10 Days series
aBRIDGEd
Apples to Apples series^[2]
Backseat Drawing
Blink
Bosworth
Button Men: Dork Victory
Cash n' Guns Second Edition
Chain Game
Chez Geek series^[2]
Cineplexity
Cloud 9
Cover Up
Creatures and Cultists^[2]
Creepyfreaks
Dork 20
Dork Tower: The Boardgame
Dungeonville
Easy Come, Easy Go
Escape from Elba
Fish Eat Fish
Gold Digger
Illuminati: New World Order series
Kobolds Ate My Baby!
Letter Flip
Letter Roll
Mag Blast^[2]
Mix Up
Munchkin series^[2]
Munchkin Quest
My Dwarfs Fly
My Word!
Ninja Versus Ninja
Nutty Cups
Party Pooper
Pepper
PokeTHULHU
Quitch
Rock
ROFL!^[5]
Shape Up
ShipWrecked
Snorta
Squint
Tutankhamen
Wallamoppi
Warhamster Rally
Whad'Ya Know?
Wheedle
ZenBenders series

References

^ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Kovalic, John (2007). "Formula Dé". In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 119–121. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0.
^ "Guests of Honor". CONvergence. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
^ muskrat_john (29 May 2008). "Kovalic Gameyography". Dork Tidings: Muskrat Ramblings for Now People. LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
^ ROFL! at Cyrptozoic games Archived 15 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Dork Tower
"Doctor Blink". Archived from the original on 23 October 2007.
"John Kovalic". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
"John Kovalic". Game credits. Pen & Paper. Archived from the original on 17 December 2004.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)