Dork Tower is an online comic created, written and drawn by John Kovalic.

Mud Bay's design is strongly influenced by the author's home town of Madison, Wisconsin.

Starting in 2000, the strip began web publication roughly three times a week and is featured in Pyramid.

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).

[3] John Kovalic also won the 2001 Origins Award for Best Illustration for the cover of Dork Shadows.