Born in Manchester, England, Kovalic is best known for his Dork Tower comic book, comic strip, and webcomic, and other humorous work set in and about the fantasy role-playing game genre, such as The Unspeakable Oaf.

and has subsequently occasionally featured supplemental KAMB material in the Dork Tower comic book.

[2] His work has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and he continues to freelance for Milwaukee's The Daily Reporter.

He is also the writer of the comic Doctor Blink Superhero Shrink, which is penciled and inked by Christopher Jones and colored and lettered by Melissa Kaercher.

[2] In 2003, Kovalic became the first cartoonist inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming's Hall of Fame.