Wormy (comic strip)

Wormy, drawn and written by David A. Trampier (1954 – March 24, 2014), was a fantasy comic strip about a talking dragon named Wormy.^[1] The strip was originally serialized in the role-playing magazine Dragon.^[2][3]

Wormy
Wormy by David A. Trampier, 1983
Author(s)	David A. Trampier
Launch date	September 1977
End date	April 1988
Publisher(s)	Dragon Magazine
Genre(s)	Humor, fantasy

The September 1977 issue of Dragon (Issue #9) featured the first 6-panel comic of Wormy. The first comic featured the title character, a cigar-chomping, pool hustling, wargaming dragon, and subsequent issues revealed the cast of goblins and ogres who were his neighbors and friends. Wormy continued to appear in Dragon for the next 10 years, until Issue #132 (April 1988).

Disappearance

In the late 1980s, Wormy creator David A. Trampier abruptly vanished from public life. The final installment of Wormy ended the strip in the middle of an unfinished storyline. No further Wormy comics were ever published.^[4]