Monday’s Guilty Pleasure: Wormy

October 11th, 2004

Filed under: General

WormyFrom its beginning in issue #9 until its abrupt end in issue #132, Dave Trampier’s Wormy comic was one of the highlights of Dragon Magazine. Following the adventures of the title character, a cigar-chomping pool-sharking wargame-playing dragon (and his friends), the comic’s storylines were cleverly plotted and the art beautifully penciled and colored. Each issue of Dragon would have anywhere from 1-4 pages of Wormy. The comic suddenly stopped appearing after issue #132, right in the middle of a storyline.

A few issues later there was a brief note from the editors saying that Wormy would never be appearing again. No one really knew why. Was Trampier hard to get along with? Was Dragon? Artist and writer Dave Trampier pretty much vanished and has never been reliably heard from since.

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6 Responses to “ Monday’s Guilty Pleasure: Wormy ”

  1. tomthedog
    October 11th, 2004 at 10:29 pm

    Aw, I thought you had some answers! At least Foglio’s What’s New finally got collected in comic form.

  2. Mikester
    October 11th, 2004 at 10:44 pm

    Wormy and What’s New kept me reading Dragon long after my interest in RPGs had vanished. Man, I loved those strips.

  3. matthew rossi
    October 12th, 2004 at 2:12 am

    http://www.yamara.com/yamara/rfw/rfw2.3.html indicates that someone knew how to reach him four years ago, anyway.

  4. Andrew Thompson
    November 11th, 2004 at 6:14 pm

    I’ve been trying to find info about Tramp’s disappearance
    for a long time. Most recently I followed the lead that he
    might be working as a cab driver in Chicago; it turns out
    that there is a cab driver named Dave Trampier, but it’s not
    the SAME Dave Trampier… unless… hmm…

  5. david stelmok
    November 11th, 2004 at 7:31 pm

    I only bought ‘dragon’ because of ‘wormy’. what a great artist and story-teller!
    he was a cross between al capp and c.s.lewis with a little walt kelley. and yet
    so much more. what were his influences ?

  6. Ted
    March 6th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    Actually, he IS working as a cabbie in Carbondale, though he was in Northwest Chicago for a while some time ago. He very much does NOT want to hear from anyone regarding his old art days or Wormy, however.

    Here’s proof of his existence and his cabbie life:

    http://newshound.de.siu.edu/online/stories/storyReader1382

    Believe me, the man put me on the road to becoming a professional artist, and influenced my style for YEARS, but show him respect, and let him keep his privacy and secrets.

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