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John Kovalic

This is the Modern World

About Me

Husband, Cartoonist, Writer, Gamer, Foodie.

My Interests

Music, Gaming, Cooking, Revolution. Not necessarily in that order.

I'd like to meet:

Neil Finn, Keith Olbermann, Aimee Mann, Neil Flynn...Just about anybody with two consecutive "n"s in their name, apparently...

Music:

The Jam, The Beatles, The Finn Brothers, Aimee Mann, Miles Davis, John Coltrane...anything from Classical to Pop, Punk, Mod and Ska.

Movies:

Casablanca, Office Space, Napoleon Dynamite, Rushmore, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings.

Television:

The Simpsons, Good Eats, Family Guy, Mythbusters.

Books:

Shakespeare, Joyce, Yeats, Elliot, Philip K. Dick, Vonnegut, Julian Barnes, anything from "London Fields" to "London: The Biography."

Heroes:

Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Charles Schulz, Paul Weller, John Lennon.

My Blog

This Can All Be Good Again

These last couple of dawns, as the sun started slowly peeking above the eastern hills, the woods in the backyard became a crystalline wonderland.Walking through it this morning, a couple of sounds bro...
Posted by John Kovalic on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:47:00 PST

Todays Dork Tower, plus...Rambling!

Today's cartoon is up.Click here or above to see the whole 'toon.****Who says editorial cartooning is dying?If it wasn't for all those hard-hitting cartoons, I never would have known that a beagle won...
Posted by John Kovalic on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:43:00 PST

Last Week’s Dork Towers

...and a link to today's:Click there or here to see the full strip.******There are two bands that I'm just stunned more folks in the US who know music don't know more about*: Slade and Stiff Little Fi...
Posted by John Kovalic on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:53:00 PST

Happy Valentine’s Day

Since some people are peeved that I'm the Grinch That Stole Valentine's Day (from Matt and Gilly, at any rate), here's a sweet piece of Fan Art from , Ginny (of Birmingham, England, I believe) in hono...
Posted by John Kovalic on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:04:00 PST

Updatey Thingy

I'm pretty peeved at myself for getting today's comic strip up late. Especially since I'm pretty happy with it.(Click anywhere here to go see the 'toon.)It's been a few months now that I've been able...
Posted by John Kovalic on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:24:00 PST

Stupid. Stupid Weather Records

I've always wanted to see what a record-setting snowfall was like, in much the same way I wanted to be part of the heady experience that is a root canal.Last night, Madison got hit with the snowfall t...
Posted by John Kovalic on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:41:00 PST

Coming Up For Jetlagged Air

Jetlagged, and with a small cold after being in Cork and London.Didn't do much in London, save hang out with the family as my Dad was having surgery (which he's come through with flying colors, so, ya...
Posted by John Kovalic on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:25:00 PST

Dork Tower, Monday, Jan. 28

...and Friday, Jan. 25, since I was away, having an amazing time at Warpcon, and couldn't post the linkkies here..Much Warpconniness to talk about. Particularly geeked out about meeting Jervis Johnson...
Posted by John Kovalic on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:30:00 PST

Travel Fun...and...DORK TOWER

We should be landing in Cork riiiiiiight about....NOW.(John looks 'round, side to side).Um...Um...Nope. We're still in Madison.I had great flights booked, for yesterday.. Get a full day's work in, lea...
Posted by John Kovalic on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:25:00 PST

WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY DORK TOWER

WEDNESDAY, JAN 16FRIDAY, JANUARY 18Forgot to post Wednesday's cartoon here. So here are two.Which is just all the more reason to check out the Dork Tower Home Page on a regular basis (to say nothing...
Posted by John Kovalic on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:39:00 PST