Evan Dorkin

1991 Milk & Cheese/Pirate Corp$! Convention Drawing

I used to do a lot of drawings for free at conventions, I'm assuming this is one of them. I didn't stop doing freebies, I just didn't have as much time at the table to knock them out. Back in the day there was very little on the table, a few comics and some original art priced to move. So I'd mostly draw quick sketches, and sometimes commissions for around $20 that I'd spend more time and attention on. I didn't draw all that hot in 1991, especially without extensive penciling, the jokes were ...

Work In Process

Getting back to speed.

Very Quickly Drawn Freebie Sketch From 1992

Maybe there was another contributing factor to the collapse of the comic book distribution industry that no one knew about. 

This is one of many freebie sketches I did for folks at conventions back in the day. I usually got to spend more time on them, even for free I tried to do something decent. This one's pretty primal. I got a nice letter the other day and two old drawings were attached. I know I'm still a fan of many artists that I liked back in 1992, but it knocks me out that ...

The First Milk & Cheese Drawing

From 1986, I believe. Drawn on a napkin while waiting for food in a Mexican restaurant in NYC, after seeing bands at CBGB's. I was drunk, which is where the alcohol connection probably comes from in the later comics. 

I don't know what led me to draw these two things. I usually drew Huevos Rancheros on napkins, a band of eggs with guns. And some other dumb in-jokes my friends and I shared while in diners, restaurants and waiting for movies to begin. But I guess drawing food while w...

Watch This Space

Just got some very exciting publishing news. Hope to be able to share it with you folks as soon as possible. More later soon.

Hope you're all having a good October so far and the spooky season treats you right throughout. 

Still On The Cover Gig (WIP)

Trying to tread a line between the design of the character and the Jack Cole/Claw homage. Hopefully it's getting it across. It does need the rest of the elements, of course, to help lock things in. Drawing this thing in layers. Looks like there will be four in all. It's taking forever between ring rust, wrist pain and trashing a lot of previous efforts. It's getting there, though.

Since I can't use Photoshop for shit it's gotta be done on paper like Kurtzman did it, with elements on lay...

Cover Art: Milk & Cheese's Latest Thing (#7)

I almost always draw stuff past the margins of my covers because --

1) Can't stop and --

2) Never trust my measurements. Anyway, there's Crayon Shin -chan M&C there for you on the lower left that I don't think made it into the actual cover. Published in 1997. Yeesh. 

Will there ever be a Milk & Cheese #Hate? No, I wouldn't bet on it. Will there ever be more Milk & Cheese comics? Probably. They'd be published here first, if they ever happen.  

WIP Hands of Death

I'm feeling so alien to drawing right now that I'm doing this cover in pieces to combine all the roughs on the litepad, then doing the tight pencils and then inks. Very. Tentative. Process. 

I Got Some Freelance Work, So Yay

I'm doing three covers for upcoming Dark Horse projects, huzzah. 

And the rates are good, which is always good, because we need those checks. Or whatever they do now, transfers? Direct deposits? Late payments is what most of us call them, ha ha, I kid because everyone pays late it seems. Huzzah?

 I'm working on the first one now (along with a couple of commissions), the other two are spaced apart so I can juggle them into other drawings/commissions. My hand seems to be d...

Going Out Of Print

The recent social media groundswell (ground bump?) regarding The Eltingville Club pilot and comic led to both it and the Dork collection selling out from Dark Horse Comics. Also, the second Beasts of Burden volume, Neighborhood Watch , is now out of print from the publisher. 

Copies are obviously floating around, people have been kind enough to report int hat Atomic Empire has Eltingville in stock. Strange Adventures in Halifax chimed in on Instagram that they have copies of severa...

Milk & Cheese in: Blind Stinking Drunks!

Scanned from the original art. 

If you look at the title you can see the edges of the art patch. One day I'll learn to use Photoshop to drop corrections in. Maybe. Probably not. 

Milk & Cheese in "No Feelings" (1997)

From "Milk & Cheese's Latest Thing" (1997). 

Scanned from the original art, on leftover Marvel paper. 

Excelsior!

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

Scanned from the original art, random stupidity from the last issue of Milk & Cheese. 

Because? 

Why not?  

Character From A Project I Haven't Been Able To Get Off The ground

There's a lot of these floating around in every artist/writer's life. 

Surf Mummy/Munny

Some years back we were asked to do a custom Munny figure for a charity auction. We ended up doing a version of the Surf Mummy character we had done for a Minimates project. 

I drew the basic design based on ideas we both had, Sarah did the wrap, board, "Mum" tattoo and accessories. I drew the eyes and teeth, possibly the exposed brain. Sarah probably painted the blue part of the eye and I'm sure she painted the brain. She's always been the painter and color artist in the house. 2023-09-16 01:11:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Random Convention Flyer (UKCAK, 1992)

I attended four UKCAC shows, two in London and two in Glasgow. Probably the best times I ever had on the convention trail, especially the one where there was an extended stayover for a Deadline signing tour. Got to see My Bloody Valentine for the second time, drunk off my ass and every other body part. I was too intimated to meet the band members at the after-party, I just sat in a big comfy chair and someone took me back to wherever I was staying. 

I did some dumb stuff on the Dea...

A 12-Pg Comic You Probably Haven't Seen: Comics Comics #1 (2018)

After a night of scanning, here's 12 pages of layouts and finished line art for a comic I drew for a project called COMICS COMICS in 2018 (not to be confused with the COMICS COMICS magazine/online source). 

This was a Kickstarter-funded comic from Starburns Industry Press, the high concept being that the stories would be written by stand up comedians and drawn by (duh) comic book artists. I have to admit that the only contributing professional comedian I was familiar with was Patto...

Experiment #107

I wasn't going to post #107, I think it's kind of a failure. But then again, experiments fail all the time. Let the failure be seen for what it is. Whatever it is. I don't know. It looks like it walked out of an S&M D&D session. Or something. He looks like burned sausage in boots. I usually don't know where an Experiment sketch is going when I start, but "monster arm" or "scared kid" will kick in and then there's a monster arm or a scared kid. This thing is a mess. 

I guess...

World's Funnest: Fourth World Sequence Script w/Art by David Mazzucchelli (Pg 33-36)

David Mazzucchelli was the third artist asked to contribute to World's Funnest. Word must have spread after he was confirmed, because one night Sarah and I returned home to a message on our answering machine: "HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI"? That was the entire message, from Alex Ross (who was the second artist who came on board, after Dave Gibbons).

If nothing else, getting David to do the Fourth World segment of the comic in th...

What Could Have Been/Was Supposed To Have Been

Previously unseen panel of Ace from The Presence of Others, part 2, painted in watercolors by series co-creator Jill Thompson. This is all I remember seeing from the abandoned/aborted issue, I never saw the rest of the page. 

The second part of the story was eventually painted by Benjamin Dewey, directly after coming off of Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men. It's collected in Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch, which may have recently gone out of print. 

I have no idea if Dar...

Experiment #106

Started a few weeks ago, finished by making the last marks with a soft Tombow bush pen, while trying to keep the wrist relaxed. Didn't hurt that bad! Slow and steady might be the way I'll have to go if I want to get any work done before whatever happens with my hand. 

Kind of came out like a fungal Beholder. Well, maybe just in the mouth.  I like it how it came out.

If you're new to the Patreon, the "experiment" art posts are index card drawings done with no or minim...