Evan Dorkin

From The Archives: The Halloweirdos (Nick Mag)

Added 2022-10-15 21:09:35 +0000 UTC

The Halloweirdos was a comic strip we did that ran in Nick Mag #105, (Oct, 2004). For a time the comics section would run a strip at the bottom of the page beneath the main comics, James Kochalka and others often had that slot.

For the 2004 Halloween issue, Sarah and I contributed eight Halloweirdos strips. Below are the first two.

I wish I had access to the color files (buried with all of Sarah's color work on a hard drive -- damaged or otherwise -- or computer in the house), barring that, this is scanned from the original line art.

Here's a larger version of the first strip, I scanned it in halves. I don't know why the second half is larger than the other, I don't know how to size stuff. I have so much to figure out, it's scary. Anyway, I can post the other six, let me know if they are legible at the full scan size or if it's better to cut them up like below.

These are very silly comics that were a lot of fun to draw. Because they ran so small on the page, I kept everything simple. Which, for me, is hard to do and something I really should try to do more often. This has been an especially bad week for the drawing wrist/hand while pushing commissions forward. Keep it simple, silly!