Scanned Originals: Milk & Cheese in "Mummy's The Word" (1997)

I sold some Milk & Cheese originals to a longtime customer and even though we have sources for the work elsewhere I scanned them for sentimental reasons. This two-pager is one of my favorite M&C bits and was in the "Not For Sale" art stack until I was made an offer I could not refuse (along with another two-pager that was previously in the stack under Sarah's orders). I'll always have my scans and my books. I'll post the scans for the other story separately.

I kind of like the M&C comics where they're kind of just being idiots, and not doing the search and destroy on a particular group or subject.  Those strips also tend not to date as poorly. Not that Milk & Cheese date. Or expire. Or whatever. Mummies! Ridiculous!  

I'm not actively selling M&C originals, but of course I'm always open to offers I can't -- or shouldn't -- refuse. I don't have a hell of a lot of those pages left, which kind of freaks me out a little. I guess I should make a few more before too long to keep the files from getting too dusty. I hope I can get one or two done by the time I'm 60. So I have four years, unless we're all done in by rising tides or rising fascism. Everything's on the table these days. Ridiculous!

I know I haven't posted much this month and I am pretty unhappy about that. There's a lot going on right now, none of it good except for our kid turning 17 today. 17! Time flies, and all that stuff that is corny but true, especially regarding all the hourglasses with our names on them in Discworld. Also ridiculous!

I have a lot of catching up to do in 2022, that's for sure. Everything's been on hold, including things already behind schedule. Fortunately I'll be able to avoid taking on anything so I can sit and draw for people who have been waiting for their art. I haven't solicited any new commissions other than the car repair Winky card program in September (I'm drawing the rest I owe folks as I type. Well, not as I type, I'm typing, right now, obviously, and I can't draw while I type. I think a few people in comics actually can draw while they write, but I'm not naming names). 

The past few months have been tough here. especially for Sarah. Thanks very much for your support in 2021, we appreciate it and it has helped tremendously. I hope you can be here with me for 2022, and I will work to get back on top of new posts and things. Thanks also to everyone who's bought art, bought books, bought shirts, whatever. And those of you who went out of their way to help us out with the car nightmare, adopting Winky the Pirate Cat, etc, thank you once again. What a year.

I have no official comics work scheduled for 2022. I have at least one project being reprinted in a new version, possibly two. I am hoping to negotiate with Dark Horse to get a new Beasts mini-series scheduled when we know more about how our year is going to go. There's a lot up in the air owing to Sarah's situation, obviously. The planned sale of DHC to a video game company has, so far, not changed anything as far as the comic books go (obviously that's subject to change, but apparently Mike Richardson is still going to be in creative control there, but I can't say I have any inside information and I also can't say I'm paying any great attention to the industry at the moment). I was asked to do a small press convention in Florida for next year, but  due to the ongoing and never-ending pandemic I can't see that taking place. or my attending, even if it did happen. I've had severe cabin fever, but I feel fortunate to be able to work from home and stay away from Staten Islanders with chips on their shoulders and no masks on their faces. Dullest, dumbest dystopia scenario ever. 

I owe many people e-mails or replies, my mail is backed up a bit from the last few months. I'm slowly getting back to folks. The best way to hear back from me sooner rather than later is through email: evandorkin@gmail.com. I try to round up DMs here, on IG and Twitter, but g-mail is where business and personal mail goes, and it hooks the eyes and brain. I am susceptible to "out of sight, out of mind" in many ways, and g-mail is, for good or unnerving,  always in sight. 

I hope the end of the year finds you and yours safe and reasonably sane. I hope the holidays have treated you well, and that next year is kinder to us all. Fingers crossed, hard to enough to break them.

Happy New Year and New Year's Eve.  More soon later. More fun, more comics, more stuff. 

Straight ahead.