Someone in Canada has a batch of 10 Fight-Man original art pages up on eBay, with shipping to the US they run around $200 or so at a glance, which is less than I'd be charging for them (if I had any Fight-Man pages left, that is). if nothing else, you can see what I sold them for, they're all marked on the backs, looks like I was asking the huge sum of $25 on average. Some of them were discounted, even. Anyway, thought I'd pass the information along in case anyone out there was looking for F...
2025-11-29 22:52:04 +0000 UTC
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My comp copies arrived early and I took a break from working on the new EC script to read the new issue. Solid comic, I hope folks who pick it up enjoy "Necronomicomicon" as well as the other two stories.
I'm hoping to wrap up my third EC story tonight. It's been a tough one to write, there's never enough space in an 8-page story to cram everything in and I never enjoy writing narrative captions, even when they're absolutely necessary. I had to do a lot of research into the vinyl recor...
2025-11-25 00:42:06 +0000 UTC
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Comic Book Club has posted a 5-page preview of "Necronomicomicon" for folks to check out.
https://comicbookclublive.com/2025/11/19/oni-press-exclusive-preview-ec-catacomb-of-torment-5/
If you want to know how artist Lukas Ketner and I wrapped up this tale, you'll have to pick up a copy of CATCOMB OF TORMENT #5, APPARENTLY NOW OUT NEXT WEEK in bett...
2025-11-19 20:44:11 +0000 UTC
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The next issue of CATACOMB OF TORMENT will be on comic shop shelves this Wednesday, Nov 19th, on New Comic Book Day. If you pick #5 up you'll be able to read "Necronomicomicon", a new 8-page horror story by me and artist Lukas Ketner. Published by Oni Press in cahoots with the EC Comics Estate, and featuring the usual mess of variant covers. The main one is by Mark Buckingham, and there's another Jay Stephen's EC throwback in the mix.
As posted earlier, I will NOT be doing a signing at...
2025-11-15 00:03:27 +0000 UTC
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Solicitation info and a cover image for Back Issue #166 are floating around, the issue will feature a piece on Milk & Cheese. I did a short interview about my guys for the article. There's alos an article on Maggie and Hopey from Love and Rockets. Good company, for sure.
It looks like it will be out in March, 2026.
Back Issue #166 is available through comic shops or directly from the fine folks at TwoMorrows https://tw...
2025-11-12 09:53:14 +0000 UTC
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Last Monday I got together with some cartoonist-types for dinner to celebrate Robbie Busch's birthday. Robbie brought out a few Instant Piano prints from back in the day that he found and gave me one and gave another to Stephen DeStefano. I didn't get it home in great shape from the subway ride, ferry and bus home, so I had to flatten it out by pushing on the scanner top. It's still a messy scan, but enough to get the idea across.
The drawing features art by Robbie Busch, Stephen DeStef...
2025-11-10 01:42:59 +0000 UTC
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If you're a free member or a backer at a tier below the print tier, you can purchase one-time access to this new Nerd Inferno print post for $15.
It will allow you to download the PDF file that can be printed out at the size and on the paper of your choice. It will not allow access to paid posts or additional prints.
2025-11-06 21:56:10 +0000 UTC
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Every once in a blue moon I draw one of these, I enjoy doing them but never have time to work on a new one. I think i finished up the last one a year or so ago. I've messed up a few, I have a list of characters I'd like tod raw and still hope to. These are fun to do (usually).
Here's who these folks are, and the movies they come from:
1) Dr. Herbest West, Re-Animator (1985). Loosely based on the H.P. Lovecraft story, a classic 80s splatterfest with the great Jeffr...
2025-11-04 01:38:58 +0000 UTC
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Here's the second half of the Hacktober drawings done some years ago for Halloween. The Sadako drawing was done this month, the previous two were done some time after the main batch. I tried drawing a new card for Oct 31st an failed twice at it. My hand's been pretty unreliable lately (and unfortunately my Nov 1st pain managament appointment was delayed until December, bleagh). If I get #31 done I'll post it here. Hope everyone had a fun Halloween.
Here's the movies the characters ...
2025-11-03 22:32:07 +0000 UTC
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Cartoonist, character designer and storyboard artist Stephen DeStefano has started a Patreon for his work as well as a Youtube channel where he has been interviewing comics and animation professionals. Wednesday night Stephen had me and cartoonist, artist and owner of Buzzed Monkey Records in Brooklyn, Robbie Busch on to talk about horror comics. As usual when I'm involved, our discussion runs long. Because someone talks a lot.
Some of you know Stephen and Robbie as being two ...
2025-11-01 01:44:52 +0000 UTC
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Some of you older folks will remember Deadline magazine from the UK, which is where Jamie Hewlitt and Alan Martin's Tank Girl were born, along with Wired World by Phil Bond, Hugo Tate by Nick Abadziz and work by such folks as Shaky Kane, Glynn Dillon, Rachael Ball, D'Israeli, John McCrea, Si Spencer, Roger Langridge and the co-creators of the magazine, Brett Ewins (RIP) and Steve Dillon (RIP).
I was an American fan who stumbled into becoming the first and only American contributor that...
2025-10-31 22:55:25 +0000 UTC
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The November 19th signing I was supposed to do at JHU Comics on Staten Island for Catacomb of Torment #5 has been canceled. Some miscommunication happened between staff and management or something, it didn't have anything to do with me and it's no big deal, I just don't want anyone showing up thinking I'll be there. We're still set for the far-off April 21st signing for Nerd Inferno. Sorry for any inconvenience.
It looks like I'll have a local appearance on Staten Island in late winter...
2025-10-31 21:58:17 +0000 UTC
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The Tear Them Apart Podcast rises from the dead for a livecast hangout on Youtube tomorrow night, Thursday Oct 30th. Join me, Paul Yellovich and our return guest Scott Dorward for a spirited (ha ha, get it?) discussion of what we've been watching for the Halloween horror season. I forget everything I've seen the next day so I'll have to go through my notes (yes, I write everything I wacth down in a notebook like a good little old nerd). I know I rewatched Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Thi...
2025-10-29 19:49:56 +0000 UTC
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The signing at Four Color Fantasies in Winchester, VA went wonderfully. I ended up signing and sketching for over 10 hours without a break, attendance was way higher than I expected and it was great meeting everyone. My thanks to everyone at Four Color and all those who showed up. Some folks even drove all the way from Texas! I haven't done an out of town signing in at least fifteen years, probably longer, and it was a terriffic experience. The only downside was that I was wiped out afterwar...
2025-10-28 22:37:19 +0000 UTC
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Art supplies packed, portfolio packed, clothing and toiletries (mostly) packed, meds packed, gas tank filled, windshield washed, business e-mails e-mailed. Tomorrow I'll head out to Winchester, Virginia, bunk down in a hotel for the night and get up on Saturday to head over to Four Color Fantasies at 10 am for the Halloween event and signing. I've already got the knots in my stomach from travel anxiety, sleep anxiety and public appearance anxiety. Well, that's what some of the meds are for. <...
2025-10-24 03:29:06 +0000 UTC
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I got a Covid booster Thursday night, I always get the whim-whams from vaccine shots and this time was no different. I spent most of Friday and Saturday in bed, slept a lot. When I wasn't sleeping I wished I was sleeping. I started feeling better Saturday night and had some soup and crackers and watched a few movies, mostly 70's no-budget weirdo stuff I'd never heard of before, THE HEADLESS EYES, HELP ME...I'M POSSESSED and MISS LESLIE'S DOLLS. Combined with my headache and diminishing chills...
2025-10-20 00:04:11 +0000 UTC
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I've been reposting the old Hacktober drawings I did a few years back for the Halloween season. Figures it wouldn't hurt to do the same here. I enjoyed doing these but never finished out the full month until afterward. If you go through the images you can see that what started as a fun, fast sketchy project turned into fuller if still sketchy dlittle draings. Backgrounds start kicking in and get more detailed. Last night I finished up card #30, I have two weeks or so to draw #31. These drawin...
2025-10-17 01:12:16 +0000 UTC
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FYI: A new 6.5" x 5" Milk & cheese drawing is up for auction on eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/257158877126
2025-10-16 03:12:28 +0000 UTC
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Some people are hard to read.
Some people aren't people.
2025-10-12 22:22:06 +0000 UTC
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Walking nightmare.
2025-10-12 02:40:11 +0000 UTC
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After yet another prolonged delay, we are finally back to update the World's Funnest retrospective. This time around, we're looking at the two-page DC Animated Universe sequence, aka, the DCAU sequence.
This turned out to be one of the more difficult sequences to work on. Not because it was hard to write, but because it was hard to start writing. This was the only sequence in the comic where I didn't have a "way in". With all the other DC universes and eras, I went in knowing what my ap...
2025-10-11 07:53:22 +0000 UTC
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I finally bit the bullet and sat down and went through all my art supplies to replace dead/dying AD markers and white ink pens, along with some needed drawing pencils. I tend to wait longer than I should to buy new suuplies, it's a pain in the ass and costs a chunk, but you can't work without these things. I used about two-score of my markers until they were bone dry or gasping for an end to their misery, to where I couldn't color anything. And my white pens were also on their last legs.
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2025-10-06 22:33:10 +0000 UTC
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Busy month. Let's update.
Tomorrow is the block party in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, featuring live music, deejays, dancing in the street, probably a few vendors and a bunch of cartoonists set up outside Buzzed Monkey Records. I'll be there with fellow Instant Pianist (and Welcome to Eltingville storyboard artist) Stephen DeStefano, R. Sikoryak, and others. Robbie Busch of Buzzed Moneky records will be floating around so that's 3/5 of Instant Piano in the same place. Been a while. Things sta...
2025-10-04 02:16:22 +0000 UTC
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EDITED TO ADD: I didn't give the flyer from the event much attention and as folks on Bluesky have pointed out, it's AI slop, which I am against and am aghast that I posted it. Please forgive me for not being more on top of things. Event info below.
They're having another Fort Greene, Brooklyn block party event this Saturday, October 4th featuring live music, deejays, vendors and a bunch of...
2025-10-01 20:11:33 +0000 UTC
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TEAR THEM APART rises from the grave!
We'll be talking horror movies on All Hallows' Eve, October 30th at 8 pm, live on Youtube -- that is, me, Paul Yellovich, our returning guest Scott Dorward from The Good Friends of Jackson Elias horror/Call of Cthulhu RPG podcast (https://blasphemoustomes.com) and anyone who wants to hang out with us.
We'll be taking questions and suggestions while we ramble on about the hor...
2025-09-26 01:43:51 +0000 UTC
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Done for an old Pirate Corp$! ad.
Previously just a very sketchy pair of dairy products. Now curdled Milk and mouldy Cheese.
My friend Tommy Lynch gave me this along with the first M&C comic pages which I had given him all those years ago. Unfortunately he had a flood that ruined a batch of art. But he held on to these because they weren't completely destroyed.
2025-09-25 00:03:27 +0000 UTC
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The last new drawing I'll be putting up for auction for a little while...I've exhausted all the AD markers I use. The only characters I can still color are Milk and Cheese. But I can't color a decent background setting. I did a marker purge this afternoon, and Winky played taps for these fine soldiers who served so well. This auction will go toward the new marker haul.
In the meantime, I have a lot of penciling and inking to concentrate on. So, I should concentrate on that.
Aucti...
2025-09-22 22:36:12 +0000 UTC
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The Nerd Inferno cover took a long time to finish up because I was super anxious about it. You can see the process above as it went from a rough to a finished cover.
Started out with a rough sketch of the cover idea featuring characters from all three books in the omnibus. Five panels for M&C and each member of the Eltingville Club, with the Club members holding toys and collectibles of characters from Dork that fall under their main genre interest. You can see the pncils develop ov...
2025-09-19 23:54:43 +0000 UTC
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I'm very happy that I can finally talk about this new omnibus collection of all my creator-owned comics from Dark Horse. Nerd Inferno will be a 656-page paperback companion to the Beasts of Burden Omnibus, collecting The Eltingville Club, Milk & Cheese and Dork in one monster volume. Hence, the "Essential Evan Dorkin" appellation there. Ahem.
So, if you're looking to finally nab one or all three of these out-of-print tomes, you won't have to pay crazy eBay money. Just wait a few mon...
2025-09-18 20:33:22 +0000 UTC
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The customer who picked up the Deadpool book chose Vroom Socko for the bonus sketch. I couldn't do a sketch in the book itself (very slick paper and mostly black indicia pages and inside covers) so I offered a quick card sketch. I haven't drawn him (or Guff, his sidekick) in quite a while, and kind of got into it beyond a quick sketch. It helped that the movie I had on was pretty lousy. I always enjoyed drawing Guff. The characters go back almost 40 years now, Pirate Corp$! started in 1987. Y...
2025-09-18 00:31:25 +0000 UTC
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