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 Publishing. 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:
Written by Lori Ann Curley, April 2005
