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| John Kovalic is the creator of the fan-favorite Dork Tower comic book, as well as the "Wild Life" newspaper strip. John has also drawn editorial cartoons for newspapers, as well as providing illustrations for such companies as Steve Jackson Games, Out of the Box, and Jolly Roger Games. John is a huge fan of Beef-a-Roo, a Rockford fast food chain mentioned in Dork Tower strips. You can visit Beef-a-Roo while you're here! |
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| James M. Ward, President of Fast Forward Entertainment. Successful author and game designer since 1974. He created the first science fiction role playing game, Metamorphosis Alpha. He's written for MARVEL, DC COMICS, RANDOM HOUSE, DEL REY, BANTAM, and WESTERN PUBLISHING. Voted into the Game Designer's Hall of Fame, Received the best game of the year for Gamma World. His novels have been on the best selling lists of Waldens, B. Dalton's, and Locus. His game credits include work with: Charlie Brown licenses, Sesame Street licenses, He-Man licenses, Conan licenses, Indiana Jones Licenses, Dragon Ball Z licenses, Marvel licenses, DC comics licenses, Worlds of Wonder licenses, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time licenses, and Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro licenses. He designed the smash hit card game, DRAGON BALL Z. In the '90s he was head of the TSR R&D department and helped guide the company to several 40 million dollar years. He left the company to go back to his first love, designing products and has worked with several game companies to produce best selling product. |  | |
| Tom Wham, game designer to the stars! Tom Wham has been a game designer since age 7 when he got his first monopoly set and immediately began modifying the rules. For a very long time this activity went unrewarded. Then, he got a job at a combination mail order hobby shop and game company, where for the most part, he shipped bottles of paint to Gary Gygax. With Don Lowry at Guidon Games, he co-authored a set of Civil War Naval Miniature rules (Ironclad). Subsequently he was employed by TSR, and this led to the publication of such titles as Snit Smashing, Snit's Revenge, Icebergs, and The Awful Green Things From Outer Space. Since them, Tom went on to work at the Lake Geneva Public Library, a position he retired from in 2003. Now, he's back to game design full-time, meaning when he's not doing other things! |  | |
