Still Cleaning

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

We cleaned some more this morning and what did I find?

Another Part of the Trilogy by John M. Ford, and I was wondering what else NESFA Press has of his?
and I found
A xerox copy of a manuscript entitled MUNCHKIN: THE ADVENTURES ISSUE ONE: THE PARTY OF THE FIRST PART (He found out I had played the game so he gave it to me to show to my friend darkwolf69 who had introduced Munchkin to me. I wonder if I did?)
So now I'm wondering, did Steve Jackson or someone ever publish that? I forgot who Mike had told me might draw it. It is 20 pages long. I'm wondering what else of Mike's stuff is out there or worse yet... lost.

Comments

munchkin

[sstaten.livejournal.com]

The art of all the Munchkin games is done by John Kovalic, AKA muskrat_john the guy who creates Dork Tower.

Re: munchkin

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

Actually it's not a game, it's the script for a comic book.

Re: munchkin

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

Oops, oh that's you. Anyway...
Did you know about this or have anything to do with it? I was wondering. Mike drops uh dropped names so well, that half the time I didn't know the folks he was talking about.

Re: munchkin

[sstaten.livejournal.com]

Not really, I knew Mike a little bit, and I've played the Munchkin game and Read theDork Tower comics, so I've got John in my LJ friends.

Re: munchkin

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

Oh, I jumped too fast. As per usual. I suppose I should write muskrat_john to find out what he knows.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure no Munchkin comic book has been published. John Kovalic would certainly be one of the key people to ask what happened to the project. Steve Jackson would be the other. I need to revive my Pyramid membership anyway, so I'll ask on the newsgroups there.

Go for it.

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

Yes please do!

[elisem.livejournal.com]

There was a Thing in the works there. Mike told me about it. I don't remember who all was involved, but it was a comic book with some additional long-shot chances for expansion into other media.

He told me that if it ever became an animated work, he wanted Margaret Cho for at least one of the voices. (He loved Margaret Cho's work. I had the deep happiness of introducing him to it, and then seeing him fold up like a slide rule from laughing so hard.)

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

MUST. NOT. DROOL. Oh how I want to read that. :-)

[damascene.livejournal.com]

Er, you know about From the End of the Twentieth Century (http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Ford.html), right?

That collection and the Trilogy libretto are the only JMF publications with NESFA's imprint, and the Press doesn't stock the libretto, alas. Mike had the print overrun after the 1997 performance; there's usually been a copy or two available via elisem's table at cons where she has a table, but when I needed another batch (for gifting &c.) I'd send Mike a note and a check...

20thC is still available, though, from NESFA or even Amazon.

[gypsy1969.livejournal.com]

I bought "From the End of the Twentieth Century" right after it came out at a book dealer's table at a SF con. If I had to pick a favorite, I think that might be it now that I think about it.

[damascene.livejournal.com]

Oh, that made my night, thanks! That book was enormously gratifying to build--there were four of us reading every piece of Mike's short fiction I could find (I still have the binders of photocopies, and all the oddments he sent are tucked into the pockets) and fiercely debating the selections. And the negotiation with Tor, since they had a collection under contract for some future date; and negotiation with Paramount for permission to include Monochrome; and sitting up waaay too late one night on a patio at LAconIII getting toasted with Gail Walotsky while Ron laughed at the two of us and kept pouring champagne and decided to paint an original cover for it (and we came to be friends, too, and that cover hangs on my living room wall, I bought it at the Chicago WFC when Ron hung it in the art show).

The book was part of my reason for inviting Mike to be GoH at Boskone: I didn't know about the pending Tor collection, and I did know that NESFA would publish a GoH collection if Mike would have one since that's standard for NESFA Press, and I wanted a Mike Ford collection somehow. Besides wanting to chair a Boskone with Mike as the GoH, which was a whole 'nother cause for me doing all that work. Worth every bit of effort, both him and the book.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you made that book happen, both you-individually and you-guys-collectively. It is a very fine book.