Evan Dorkin

Milk & Cheese: Unused "Generic Comic" Notes

This is what a lot of M&C comic springboards looked like. I just wrote brief notes about what would happen or what they would say, there was usually no drawing required. If there's a visual joke involved, then I'd do a very fast sketch of it to jog my memory or lock down a detail. There wasn'...

Store Signing Flyer: Bedrock City Comics (Houston, TX 1992)

I haven't posted a signing flyer in a while. I was in Texas for the Houston Comics Fest, a small convention that had a bunch of Dark Horse-affiliated creators as guests. I was there basically to promote Predator: Big Game (which I had penciled, I've written about this out-of-left-field gig before...

A Page From The Dork Notebook

This is how I write down most of my Dork/M&C-type ideas. Not much drawing ever goes into it, if any, mostly dialogue or directions, paced out into panels. If there's a visual gag, then I'll sketch it.

These are Fun Strip ideas, mostly. The only one I used is at the bottom, about makin...

Rejected Joke #4

Another one I may have posted already. Or posted to my LiveJournal many years ago. I don't remember. I do remember that this is an actual pitched-and-rejected cartoon. I sent this to Nickelodeon Magazine and got a nice rejection note from comics editor Chris Duffy, basically saying he really like...

Rejected Joke #3

I may have posted this one before. Memory fails, like most jokes.

To be honest, I would have used this one in Dork if it didn't go on hiatus for a few decades. Dork #11 was all single panel and four-panel gags, an entire issue of super-bad business decisions, and I wasn't paid up-front for...

Rejected Joke #2

Prelim sketch for a four-panel gag strip that I didn't pursue any further. I must have been aiming this at MAD, because it isn't laid out along the lines of a Fun Strip -- it's a full four panels rather than three panels and an opening title panel.. Sometimes the Fun template doesn't work for a j...

Rejected Joke #1

I spent some time this week going through an old notebook filled with potential jokes for Dork, looking for a Fun Strip springboard to draw for the Patreon. I mostly found jokes I already used. I also found some loose sketches of stuff to possibly pitch to MAD (some may be old enough to have been...

(Page Sold) Northwest Comix Collective Club Page 6

The Northwest Comix Collective story was done to fill out Dork #6, which an Eltingville Club issue reprinting the first two installments from Instant Piano (#1 and #3). material from Instant Piano. I also did a new two-page Eltingville comic about Josh called "Captain's Log", which was made up of...

(Page Sold) Eltingville Club #2 Page 5

Scanning some pages that recently sold. This scan is of the raw inks for page 5 from the last Eltingville story. You can see traces of blue pencil underneath some of the inked lines, and the edges of a pasted-down lettering patch in panel ten. There's also Pentel pen correction ink visible, if yo...

Horror We, How's By You? More Movies I've Watched.

I don't know why, but this afternoon while doing some long-neglected yard work, I thought I'd sit down and type some thoughts about some of the movies I've watched recently (or fairly recently, in some cases). Sometimes I like to process my thoughts about them because it allows me to think about ...

Tear Them Apart Podcast Ep 21: Pontypool (2008)

It's been a while since Paul Yellovich and I recorded a new episode of the tear Them Apart horror movie podcast, and this one is a deep dive into Pontypool, a Canadian zombie film that is unlike any other zombie film out there. Or zombie-adjacent film out there, for those that like to parse those...

New Fun Strip: Return Of The Broken Robot

Testing out my new steroid-injected arm. And some new Tombows.

It isn't cleaned up and I'm really tired so hopefully there aren't any bad typos or smeared ink lines I'm not seeing. These strips can get blown up real big online, they're drawn fairly small, each panel is approximately 3" x 2...

Coming Soon: Tear Them Apart Podcast Ep #21

A few days away. I'm still working on the episode cartoon.

 Video teaser by Paul Yellovich. The skull to my pumpkinhead.

Unseen Art: Harrow Demon Sketch by Jill Thompson

I just found this image on my computer while looking for something else in one of the various Beasts of Burden files. It's Jill Thompson's first sketch for the Harrow Demon from "What The Cat Dragged In", the story where we learn about Dymphna's second attempt to kill our canine heroes and how i...

Update 5-23-24

I'm sorry I haven't been very active this month, and that things have been kind of fallow since April. There's been a few things going on that have affected my work, mainly issues with my arm and hand that have kept me from getting a lot of things done.

On Saturday I finally got my steroi...

Nick Mag: The Comic Book 3D Cover

I was going through the magazine tearsheets and realized I hadn't posted the 3D cover we did for The Comic Book section of Nickelodeon Magazine. I thought I'd look for the original art and post that as well, so, here you go.

I wanted to make sure the cover had some depth to it for the 3D pr...

Minor Threats: Barfly #2 Variant Cover Solicited

Ships August 14th, 2024. Wheee!

Lines by me, colors by Sarah Dyer. All the important stuff is by the nifty folks listed on the cover. Looking forward to getting the comps and reading the series.

Solicitation info can be found here: 2024-05-04 11:20:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Raw Inks

Upcoming variant cover. I stretched this one out a bit. Har har!

I'm happy with it. It's definitely influenced by my "Experiment" drawings from this site, but obviously slicker. I don't have the courage to draw that loosely for print, at least not yet. The small details were tough, my hands...

Mad Magazine: Bands Reunited - Def Leppard Drummer Rick Allen's Left Arm

I was going through some Mad comps to include in book and art sale packages and stumbled across this one-page strip in MAD #13 (June 2020). This is one of the more recent "zombie" issues, the current iteration of the magazine that's made up mostly of reprints of older material. This issue's theme...

Horror We, How's By You? Movies I've Watched.

I'm bored and I didn't know what to post about. I was looking at the list of movies I've watched since March, 20th and something struck me: I watch a lot of miserable crap. And I've always meant to do some short reviews outside of the Tear Them Apart Podcast. So, here's my thoughts on a batch of ...

Nutsy Monkey (Nickelodeon Magazine, March 2001)

How the two-page comic looked in print. Colors by Sarah Dyer.

Bottom runner strips by James Kochalka.

Other contributors to The Comic Book section in that issue include Sam Henderson, Terry Laban and Johnny Ryan.

2024-04-18 03:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 4/13/2024

Sarah finished the colors on a new variant cover for another Dark Horse series. One's been solicited (Operation Sunshine), another is for an announced project (I previewed the cover here a little ways back), and this one will be solicited...I'm not sure when. Everything is done so far in advance ...

Secret Milk & Cheese Commission

A while ago I was commissioned by Dark Horse Comics to do a drawing commemorating manga editor Carl Horn's twenty years with the company. It was weird because it was a commission, but also "work". Not a private thing but invoiced and paid like doing a cover. Had to do some finagling because the ...

Experiment #121

Where my head's been.

TV Guidance Counselor Episode 630: Evan Dorkin

I was interviewed several weeks ago by Ken Reid for his TV Guidance Counselor podcast, ostensibly about my animation work, but we went all over the place, as to be expected when my brain and mouth are involved. Which was agreed upon beforehand.

Here's the episode description, with two annot...

Experiment #120

How it feels.

WIP Spy Vs Spy Vs M&C Commission

One of three on the board. Three left to go after that.

Experiment #119

Found in the pile of unfinished drawings, almost finished.

Maybe it called to me.

Welcome To Eltingville: Movie Theater Sequence Designs

Some of the characters that are briefly seen in the pilot were going to have recurring roles in the proposed series. The two ushers that kick the Eltingville Club out for trying to sneak into another movie are named Mitch and Randall. Both are seniors at the high school the Eltingville Club membe...

Index Card Drawings For Sale

UPDATE: Both card sets have been SOLD. Thanks very much!

Up for sale are two 3" x 5" index card drawings, the kind you might have seen on my Instagram. I can't do lottery sales on Patreon (they're not allowed) so these will be first stumbled upon, first sold.

I...