Dork Storm Press announced May 28, 2002 that Rich Koslowski's THE 3 GEEKS would be joining the DORK TOWER comic book as a permanent three-page back-up feature.

The 3 Geeks will start running with Dork Tower #19. They join Greg Hyland's Lethargic Lad, Aaron Williams' PS 238 and Nodwick and Scott Kurtz's PvP as permanent back-up features.

"Obviously, I'm thrilled," said John Kovalic, Dork Tower creator. "The 3 Geeks are a perfect match for Dork Tower. I'm a huge fan of Rich's work, and he's a great guy on top of it all."

The 3 Geeks began life in Koslowski's hilarious, self-published "How To Pick Up Girls If You're A Comic Book Geek" in 1997. The overwhelming popularity of the book led to eleven self-published issues of the Geeks' own self-titled series, as well as ten issues of the collaboration comic book GEEKSVILLE (with Gary Sassaman's acclaimed Innocent Bystander comic), three of which were self published, seven of which were published through Image.

"I'm just glad the Geeks are back in print on a permanent basis," said Kovalic. "I was going through withdrawal symptoms when Geeksville ended. I'm honored and humbled to have this hilarious comic helping make Dork Tower an even stronger comic book."

"It's great to be bringing the boys (The 3 Geeks) back!" said Koslowski. "And I can't think of any better places to do so than in the pages of DORK TOWER. It's a perfect fit, really. It also helps that John and I are friends and both admire each others work. And, y'know, we've both got that good Wisconsin breeding thing going..."

It had previously been announced that The 3 Geeks would join Dork Tower for issues #19 and 20 only. "But the partnering was just too fun," said Kovalic, and it was decided to make Koslowski's creation a permanent fixture.

"There's no question we'll probably have to up the page count on each issue," said Kovalic "But for now, the $2.99 price will remain the same.

"More 3 Geeks will not mean less of anything else. Current issues have been running between 48-52 pages, but the chance to include new 3 Geeks stories was just too tempting to pass up."

Dork Tower began life as a comic strip in Shadis magazine before becoming its own comic book in 1998. Its web site, http://www.Dorktower.com, receives nearly two million hits a week, and Dork Tower runs in Dragon, Scrye and Games magazine, as well as the Chicago Sun-Times and other mainstream publications.

Dork Tower has a circulation of 10,000 issues bimonthly, and is planning to move to a six-week publication schedule in 2003.