Jolly Blackburn

Jolly Blackburn is best known as the creator of the comic strip Knights of the Dinner Table.  He launched a gaming magazine called Shadis when he was still serving in the Army.  Knights of the Dinner Table was a strip in the back of Shadis in the tradition of Finneous Fingers in Dragon Magazine. Of course the Knights have become a force of their own!

Jolly is also the person who helped Luke name Gary Con at the gathering after Gary’s funeral.  When someone commented that Luke should hold a gathering every year in honor of his Dad, Jolly offered the name of “GaryCon” based on the fictional event in the KoDT world run by the character Gary Jackson.  Luke liked the name and Gary Con was born!