Evan Dorkin

Operation Sunshine: Already Dead #4 CVR B

This variant cover is now all official-like, and decked out with logo and text. They forgot to credit Sarah with me on the cover in the solicitation, I'm going to have to write my editors and make sure she's credited in the actual comic. It will be nice to have something new out there in print after such a long stretch.

It ships on 7/31/24. Here's the solicitation:

OPERATION SUNSHINE ALREADY DEAD #4 CVR B DORKIN
(W) Zebrowski, Henry (A) Rubin, David (C) Dorkin...

Quickest Update Ever!

Lanky Cat came back! Yay, Lanky Cat came back, Lanky Cat came back, la la la, I fed Lanky Cat and promised I'd clean up anything Lanky Cat didn't finish so rats wouldn't come a-callin' but Lanky Cat ate everything la la la!

Quick Update: Welcome To Eltingville D&D Segment Art

One of the things I'm trying to get done is to scan all the design work I can find for the WTE opening segment. The D&D game is the only part of the pilot where a scripted bit was cut. The "freeze spell" bit replaced some business with a monster that was cut for time and logistics.

Scanning is a pain in the ass, isn't it? Especially when your cat likes to jump on the scanner bed (Winky is fascinated by the scanner and the printer, they're both part-time furries and some days I have...

Rambling Update 3-20-2024

I just got off the phone after doing the first part of an interview for a print publication.

I am working on a new "comic book advice" comic for the Patreon (see above image).

I'm inking a commission and started pencils on another. I am also working on a commission which I have to do some stuff to figure out how to lay it out. Some of the drawn elements have been sitting for a while. Apologies to everyone involved.

I started a few new "Experiment" card drawings while sitt...

Experiment #118

Howdy, neighbor.

Experiment #117

My creatures have been very teethy lately. 

I wonder if it has any subconscious meaning in regards to my recent dentist and periodontist visits.

Tomorrow I am getting an MRI, maybe my next creature will be -- I don't know! Humming loudly? Laying down? Very tired because of Daylight Savings Time?

Actually, the next one's almost done, and it is also teethy.  

Nickelodeon Magazine #131: "The Comic Book" Cover

I loved doing illustrations and gag panels for Nickelodeon/Nick Magazine, and was always hoping that comics editor Chris Duffy would ask us to do the cover of the comics section. To me it felt like a big deal to get that gig. I never asked about it, because...well, I never really ask about these sorts of things, but that's a post for another time, and my hands won't stand for it today. Not that I stand on my hands. Or can stand on my hands. I can't stand my hands? 

Topic. 

WIP Contd

Just needs the head and...an object. The head's penciled, I'm resizing it.

Should be fun to ink.

Figured I'd preview this because it's not giving anything away. Just lots of icky stuff.

More later soon. Off to the regular neurologist.

Variant Cover WIP

Top third of the cover I'm currently penciling. This is the closest to one of the Experiment drawings I've done for something, I think. Well, actually the Grumble variant I did was up the same alley. But I think this is the fist cover where I feel like I was thinking in that "experiment" mode while working on it. If that makes sense.

Need to get this finished in the coming week, then I start a cover for a project I'm directly involved in, get back on the commissions and think about a co...

Experiment #116

Avoid, if at all possible.

Experiment #115

Another wanderer. Keep at arm's length, two blocks away.

Truly Excellent Mail Day!

Look what I got -- the cover of BILL AND TED ARE DOOMED #1 by the great Roger Langridge! This was the variant for the Dark Horse series I wrote and Roger illustrated. I can now add it to my prized FRED THE CLOWN original page I bought from Roger at MOCCA some time ago. Roger asked me if I'd want the cover, and I was nodding "yes yes yes" vigorously while replying. Yes yes yes. 

I have been a huge fan of Roger's cartooning and comics since the days of ART D'ECCO and ZOOT (those days...

Experiment #114

The image might be upside-down. Hard to tell with these things. It also might be magnified. Or not. No telling how big they can get. Either way, keep it out of the house and by all means don't let it touch you. You won't be able to move, and something else is bound to come along...

Nickelodeon Magazine: Superhero Thanksgiving (Nov 2005)

A straightforward illustration job for Nickelodeon Magazine. Colors by Sarah Dyer.

It was funny to be asked to draw DC and Marvel superheroes, but not for a DC or Marvel comic book. If I'm remembering correctly, we were asked to use the X-Men movie version of Storm because it would have been more familiar to most kids at the time.  If I were taking this assignment on today, I'd loosen thin...

Milk & Cheese: The Losing Edge (Wizard Edge, 2002)

Wizard Edge was a short-lived annual edition of Wizard Magazine that covered alternative comics, and for the first issue I was asked to contribute a one-page Milk & Cheese comic. I had a lot of problems with Wizard, but as is often the case with the publishing outfits ever dealt with, the editors and staffers were usually a lot cooler and more open about things than the irritating, money-grubbing people who called the shots and signed the checks (in this case, successful comic ...

Maxim U.K. -- Dirty Harry #2 (2005)

The second and last of the Dirty Harry strips for Maxim UK (color by Sarah Dyer, of course). 

It's basically a cut and paste script from the first installment, with a first act of random violence (that has nothing to do with the rest of the story), a second act of debauchery, and a third act of bizarre slaughter in a foreign country. The final wrap-up panel can be read as "What will happen next?" or "We are so done here".  Or both! The feature was put to rest. No one really ca...

Milk & Cheese "Onward To Mayhem!" Commission

Five more commissions to complete from the old list.  

This one will be uploaded as a higher res PDF print for the print tier. 

Experiment #113

Coalescing. Or dematerializing. Either way,  step back. Then run.

Whatever number Experiment this is, right now it's #113.

Also (Still) WIP

Reworked a few trifles and details on this, which is the next cover I'm responsible for. 

I'm happy with how all the characters/books are in play here, and the Eltingville Club are sort of positioned like in the opening titles of the pilot. I thought Jerry should hold the Broken Robot figure because of his Twiki obsession, but thematically the Shitty Witch and Crappy Cat on an MTG card works better. Josh ets the robot for his SF obsessions. Pete gets Georgina from the Murder Family...

Work In Process

Rough sketch detail for a DHC variant cover I'm working on. This one is going to be a lot like one of my "Experiment" drawings, except allowing for color. And not drawn on an index card. Looking forward to penciling/inking it. 

Refereeing

Nutmeg loves yogurt.

Winky is not a fan.

Of yogurt.

Or getting chased by Nutmeg.

(Also, refereeing is a weird word. Feels wrong typing it, checked it twice. Yup Refereeing. Weird)

Update

Couple of things while I'm feeling out of it. Nothing big, just had a long night after the car battery died outside Costco. Three hours in twenty degree weather, with the state of things these days I can't complain. I'm actually happy that I dealt with it calmly, thank you, therapy. And I'm happy the AAA driver had a replacement battery. Things like tis should be the worst that happens to any of us. Except villains. Death to villains, am I right? 

First off, if you want a chance to...

Maxim U.K. -- Dirty Harry (2005)

Here's a comics page we did for the U.K. edition of Maxim magazine. I don't have a lot to say about this gig. If I hadn't needed the money this was a job I would have preferred to have turned down. The concept wasn't of any interest to me, the script did nothing for me, it was something I took on purely for the paycheck (which was pretty decent, especially compared to comics rates). 

I didn't enjoy working on the two installments. My comics are often intentionally stupid, rude and ...

Spin Magazine: Real Life Rock Tales (feat Hot Hot Heat)

This was the second Real Life Rock Tales feature we illustrated for Spin. Apparently this ran in 2005, I would have guessed earlier, I didn't realize there was such a gap between this assignment and the Moby one.

To this day I've never heard a song by Hot Hot Heat, so I have no idea if they were a good band, an okay band, or a band I wouldn't like. I looked them up, and apparently they have reunited recently, so, if you're a fan, there you go. Their first album was on Sub Pop, which I d...

Spin Magazine: Real Life Rock Tales (feat Moby)

For a couple of years Spin Magazine ran a back page feature called Real Life Rock Tales, which was an interview with a musician or band told in comics form. An anecdote would be scripted by the interviewer/writer, and a different artist would be hired every month to do the illustrations. Sarah and I contributed art to two installments. 

The first one we worked on was about Moby getting knocked around my security guys at his own concert. I'm glad we got to draw him getting smacked a...

Experiment #112

It walks in circles around the backyard, making noises that sound like something inside it is choking on something inside it. It might be laughing. It could be crying.  

Experiment #111

"I don't know. I couldn't be sure."

Experiment #110

It's been seen twice, but has always been there. 

I still have to fix the numbering on these but also have to find the time to go through all of them and see what's missing. SO for now, let's pretend it's #110 and keep going. 

Kyle and Evan, Critics At Large #2 (Fishbone/BWP)

Here's the second of the Critics at Large concert (non)reviews. I wasn't sure if it was the second appearance, so I had to find a copy of Dork #2 to find out what order these comics ran. It took me a while to clear off the longbox that (most) of my file copies are in, but as I thought, this was the second comic Kyle and I did for Reflex. 

(The longbox in question. Single copies of comi...