Dork Tower is an online comic created, written and drawn by John Kovalic . It chronicles the lives of a group of geeks living in the fictional town of Mud Bay, Wisconsin . Mud Bay's design is strongly influenced by the author's home town of Madison, Wisconsin . Topics have included role-playing games (RPGs), comic books , video games , and fandom in general. The comic strip began in January 1997 and has made appearances in publications like Dragon magazine , Shadis , and Comic Shop News . Starting in 2000, the strip began web publication roughly three times a week and is featured in Pyramid . The bimonthly comic book made its first appearance in 1998 and features continuing storylines. It has recently gone to full color with issue #32, and it is collected in trade paperback.
5-582: During its first year in Dragon , Dork Tower was called Shop Keep , making the comics focusing on Bill Blyden and Pegasaurus Games a separate series from the comics focusing on Matt and his group that were published elsewhere (although the Dork Tower cast, especially Igor, also appeared in Shop Keep as customers). This was later discontinued, and subsequent Pegasaurus-based strips were also titled Dork Tower . The name
10-516: Is a cacographic of the Judges Guild Advanced Dungeons & Dragons module Dark Tower . Dork Tower won the 2002 Origins Awards for Best Game-Related Periodical and Best Game-Related Fiction, Graphic Form ( Dork Tower #18), and the 2001 award for Best Professional Game Periodical. John Kovalic also won the 2001 Origins Award for Best Illustration for the cover of Dork Shadows . The story "Matt and Gilly's Big Date" won
15-466: Is bad spelling or bad handwriting. The term in the sense of "poor spelling , accentuation , and punctuation " is a semantic antonym to orthography , and in the sense of "poor handwriting " it is an etymological antonym to the word calligraphy : cacography is from Greek κακός ( kakos "bad") and γραφή ( graphe "writing"). Cacography is also deliberate comic misspelling , a type of humour similar to malapropism . A common usage of cacography
20-442: Is to caricature illiterate speakers, as with eye dialect spelling. Others include the use to indicate that something was written by a child, to indirectly voice a cute or funny animal in a meme such as the captioned photo of a British shorthair that was the namesake of I Can Has Cheezburger? , or because the misspelling bears a humorous resemblance to a completely unrelated word. This article about language acquisition
25-513: The 2000 Origins Award for Best Game-Related Short Work, and the story "Everybody Loves Gilly" won the 2003 award for Graphic Fiction. Dork Tower ' s central characters are a group of people who play games as a hobby, including role-playing games and miniatures games , and some also participate in live action role-playing games . The comic primarily chronicles the ins-and-outs of the gaming world (typically exaggerating stereotypes of gamers for comic effect). Cacography Cacography
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