Evan Dorkin

ICYMI: My Life Today, Jim Hanley's Universe Anecdote (12-5-17)

Steve Gatti, mentioned in this strip, died a few years ago. I was very close to Steve in those days, several friends of mine were, as well. The comic book shop had a large cast  of characters with a lot of irregulars and cameo players in the mix. I dated Steve's sister for a little while while I was working at the store. 

Some people drift out of your life, some veer straight off the road and through a fence or five. I'm glad Steve got me out of that bathroom mustard gas, that...

ICYMI: My Life Today Comic Catch-Up (6-2-17)

Back when we had a lot more going on, including actual in-person conventions. Seems so long ago. 

How things develop and change. The situation with Pinup Girl Clothing fell into disaster as things crumbled with and within the company, and so went a good, steady source of income. Two volumes of Blackwood, the "secret series" have come out, and the future of the project is up in the air as the industry continues to shudder and shake through Covid 19. We didn't attend any conventions ...

ICYMI: My Life Today FCBD Flyer Comic (5/17)

I miss Comic Book Jones a lot. I would usually do store appearances there for Free Comic Book Day as well as their anniversary event. And sometimes for new releases. I drew a few store stickers for the shop and would table with them at the local New Dorp H.S. mini-con.The staff was like family and the customers friends. The inner circle members were given a Jones Family Clan name by owner Socko Jones, as part of the extended "Jones Family Clan" , I was Biff Jones, Sarah was Bam Jones and the ...

ICYMI: My Life Today Comic: Inking (4-15-17)

Gah. I've gotten a lot better, but Inking is still very difficult for me.  Especially as I get older, and the hand shakes a little more and the eyes blur a little more. Oof.

ICYMI: My Life Today Comic w/Bonus Writing Process Stuff (3-20-17)

The series in question was Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men, which hadn't been announced at the time.  The scene's still waiting for a right fit sometime down the line. I often wish I had a monthly series going so I could take things a little slower here and there, and have room for some non-crucial stuff. Especially when I'm working on a done-in-one.

Sarah was really sick at the time, too. Jaw infection. It was awful. 

ICYMI: My Life Today Comic (3-14-17)

One of my favorites. I really liked this one. Still do.

I should've been happier back then. Life wasn't really bad. I just made it bad. 

ICYMI: My Life Today Comic (3-13-17)

I like this one.

ICYMI: My Life Today Comic (3-11-17)

If you haven't seen these -- or don't recall reading these from my old LiveJournal -- let me know. There's eight or nine strips from this little series. I'll post them here if folks want to see them. Maybe I'll post them anyway. A few of these are personal favorites of mine. Why am I asking, then? I'm a goof. 

More soon, of this or something else.

Fugazi Deadline Magazine Cover Recreation: Rough Layout

Another commission WIP. Moving figures around, fixing drawing mistakes, hoping I get the likenesses down more better. Pencil slow.

Devil Puppet Commission: Rough Layout

Working on getting commissions to folks. Expect a Dischord band, a polar bear and a panda, a Bill and a Ted and a Death, and a Milk and a Cheese in the next batch.  

Animals are hard to draw. Dairy products less so.

House of Fun Artist Minimates Designs and Prototypes

Apologies for the low-res photo above, it's the only one I can find in my files and I couldn't find hide nor hare of these things on Google. Which makes sense, since this is a pretty obscure item.

Back when Wizard Magazine existed, it had a companion magazine called Toyfare. Sarah and I had done some work for Wizard (comics, a Milk & Cheese holiday card) and had some supporters there, we were on the comp lists and that meant copies of both magazines as well as whatever exclusive Mar...

Fun Strip: Asshole Rodney

Another Heavy Metal/Soft Wood instant classic. 

It's driving me nuts that we have so much material on Sarah's busted hard drive and on her current computer and because of time and everything it is like having a locked trunk of comics and scripts that I don't have access to. Looking forward to when we can unlock that and I can start posting from those vaults. 

Being tech-illiterate really drags me down, more so than ever these days. I appreciate when folks offer to help w...

Fun Strip: Dicked

I think I posted this years back on my LJ when I finished it. It ran in Soft Wood from Heavy metal when I collected unpublished and new Fun Strips. If it's new to you, hope you like it. If it's not new, hope you like it.

I'm dealing with two stressful behind-the-scenes situations right now, one positive, one negative. I think they'll both be wrapped up this week, so at least there's that. I'm sure I'll talk about both situations sometime in the future. But not now, obviously. Cryptic, s...

Black Hammer Visions #1 Variant Cover Process

Layout to pencils to raw inks to cleaned up with Sarah's colors

And some sketchy stuff.

Fun Strip: Busybody Grandma

This one works better in color, but we don't have access to these files on Sarah's old hard drive right now. And I still need to switch my computer out with the replacement unit Sarah bought...a couple of months ago --? Because my PC is old, slow and failing. I wish I knew how to do more computer stuff, it really limits my ability to post some things. And clean up art. And use photoshop (or whatever) to do some stuff, like take old Fun Strips and organize the panels to be two by two in square...

Dork #12 Cover WIP

At some point in time I'll have enough material to make something resembling an issue of Dork. I don't know if it will be a digital/Patreon-only sort of thing, or worked out as some sort of print project (in addition), but since I'm still making comics, they'll eventually accumulate. 

So far there's the four or five pages of Fun strips from Heavy Metal/Soft Wood, some unpublished strips posted here and elsewhere in the past year, and a few comics like the Cat Help page. Currently I...

Work in Progress: New TeePublic Design Inks

Raw inks for the remastered "Get Out of Comics Free" design.  We thought we'd bring this one back and see how it looks on a T-shirt (and magnets, mugs, stickers, etc) for our Teepublic shop. Once Sarah has the drawing cleaned up and adds the text, it'll be good to go. 

Perfect for the depressed cartoonist, the happy cartoonist, and anyone else it may resonate with. For reasons. TeePublic doesn't make business cards, but I want to have those printed up again so I can send them ...

Work In Progress

For future use.

Fun Strip: Inspiration For Today

Emotionally Potent If Poorly Drawn 3-Panel Comic (?)

I got a new wrist brace. 

This was poorly drawn the other day, not with it on. Blew the hand and arm (and shoulder and neck and back) out between work and shoveling snow, even with Sarah taking a few shifts. So,  I won't be typing long posts for a little while. Apologies! 

Gearing up some other stuff, though. 

FYI: Beasts of Burden #4 is just about done, just lettering left. In a  few weeks we'll have a few new collections out, Bill & Ted, the Ma...

Pencils by Jack Kirby, Inks by Evan Who --?

In 1993 I got to ink a Jack Kirby sketch for a book called Jack Kirby's Heroes and Villains: Black Magic Edition. This was a version of a 1987 hardcover book -- called Jack Kirby's Heroes and Villains -- which collected pencil drawings Kirby did in a sketchbook given to his wife, Roz, as a gift*. Most of the sketches are of characters Kirby created or co-created. The 1994 Black Magic edition collected inked versions of the sketches by a number of comics artists, some well-known, some lesser-k...

October Experiment #31 (Very Belated)

Took a break from the horror panels, but here's a new one. More eww.

There are almost 80 of these. Time to start picking the ones that make sense...and start making some sense of them. Or something like that. 

Fun Strip: 54 Years Old And What Has He Learned?

This still goes for 55 years old, of course. 

And 56, most likely.  Supposedly they are going to release a Monster Cereal mix of all five kinds, Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo Berry, Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy. I will be ready. Hopefully this isn't a hoax, a dream or an imaginary story. 

Another Fun Strip from Soft Wood, the one-off humor one-shot from Heavy Metal.

Fun Strips: The Weird Dr. Strangelittle/Old Joke Theatre

Two more Fun Strips from the Heavy Metal 2019 humor one-shot, Soft Wood. 

Scanned from the raw inks. 

The Monkey's Paw is one of the best short horror stories ever written. A lot packed into a short space, a lot left to the imagination, a lot of grisly elements. Tight and ingenious, no less so because of its over-familiarity. Just read it again recently and it really holds up. 

I forgot this is the second Fun Strip I did about the story. I should try to find t...

Fun Strip: Tales of Ikea

Scan of raw inks, with a pasted down title panel. Didn't like the first take on this but liked the title panel. Sarah digitally dropped in the title patch to the reworked strip and then cleaned it up and colored it as part of the job we did for Soft Wood, a one-shot from Heavy Metal. 

Hopefully, one day down the line these strips-- along with similar Patreon comics and strips -- will be collected into a comic or book. Even if it's digital. I miss drawing those covers and inside fro...

Story Time: Early SDCC Memories and the Unfortunate Beer Incident

I went to the San Diego Comic Con for the first time in 1987. The show was small enough back then that you could, if you wanted to, meet just about any of the professionals. The floor was a looser affair, basically tables and small booths, not much going on that was anything like what you see now. It was held in the old convention center that was across the street from the Westgate hotel, it was puny compared to the Logan's Run cosplay city they have out there now for events.

The indust...

One-Page Comic: Cat Help

Scanned raw inks, so please excuse any stray lines or stuff.

The first in a series of short comics that I started years ago but abandoned for the usual reasons (time, money, uncertainty). I have a two-page call WIP that I hope to finish up soon. Hope you like the comic.

Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory Set For April

The press release stuff is gearing up on the new  upcoming Beasts of Burden series, which is going to kick off this April. Comic Book Resources got the exclusive whatever-the-heck announcement, which is basically two covers and a quote by me about where the series' idea came from. That's all anything gets from most "comics sites" if it ain't Batman or some casting news. But, I'll take it. The CBR announcement might remind three people who forgot about the series that they should forget t...

Upcoming

Since Dark Horse Comics is gearing up to announce the new Beasts of Burden series, Occupied Territory, I decided to toss out a preview image of the variant cover I drew for you folks. Shhhh!

These are the raw inks, Sarah did the final colors and clean up. I'll be doing a full process post for this cover when it's solicited. Went through a lot of steps getting this one done.

I think this is going to be the variant for the second issue. I drew it so long ago I don't remember when it...

Another Short Comic (Index Card Comic #8)

I'll never tell.