Evan Dorkin

Predator: Bad Blood (French Edition)

I'm writing a foreword to an international edition of Predator: Bad Blood and while doing some reasearch I stumbled across this French edition of the book that I didn't know existed. It's from 2019, published by Vestron. The cover design is pretty haphazard but it's interesting that "Bad Blood" and "Enforcer" have become entrenched as the names for the two Predator characters Derek Thompson and I created. I'm not sure if the NECA action figure set is where the the names originated. In the co...

New Art Up On eBay

Two new index card drawings (M&C and Ironjaw), two production art pieces from the Welcome to Eltingville pilot (and a couple of books I'm trying to sell). Auctions end on Friday.

Link to auctions: https://tinyurl.com/ckd2xj3p

Thanks for looking, thanks for any and all bids.

Experiment #126

After escaping from the hospital, they never ate meatballs and spaghetti again.

It's been a while since a new experiment went up. I was going through my art supplies to weed out the dried-up pens and took the opportunity to finish this one that's been sitting for at least a year.

Folks who are unfamiliar with these drawings can search the Patreon for "experiment" and you'll find another 96 index card drawings that I've done so far. That's all I have tagged, there's actually 126 of...

Necronomicomicon Update

Was just sent the coloring pass on the new EC/Oni story. All the pages look terrific, very moody, great atmopshere and the "EC" bits look very creepy. Once again, the art is by Lukas Ketner, I don't have a credit for the colorist yet.

One last little thing to deal with, we'll probably lose Lukas Ketner's shout out to The Stand, or it will be adjusted so no one's lawyers get itchy. All the other Easter eggs have been addressed and revised or allowed outright.

Necronomicomicon is ...

The First Milk & Cheese Comic (And The M&C Story)

As I think I mentioned, my friend Tom Lynch dropped by the signing I did last month at JHU Comics and gave me the original art for the first Milk & Cheese comic. Unfortunately, the art was badly water damaged (due to a basement flood, something that occurs often here on Staten Island),. Tom had kept it afterward in plastic and I've slipped them, within the plastic, into my M&C portfolio.

They're pretty messed up but I'm pretty happy to have them again in my possession. I gave t...

Signing At Four Color Fantasies Oct 25th

Hey, folks, I'm happy to let you know that I'll be traveling to Winchester, VA on October 25th to do a signing at Four Color Fantasies' Halloween event.

The usual routine applies, I'll be signing anything folks bring or buy that has my work in it, I'll have art to shot off and I'll be doing free little sketches as long as my carpal tunnel allows.

Shop information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/F...

Lecture Time For Young Cartoonists

A rambling, unedited reply to someone on my Tumblr that I thought I'd repost here:

It doesn't matter if drawings are the best or anything, honestly. No one should apologize for their art, it will become a bad habit (I say this from decades of experience and therapy, trust me on this one if nothing else). I read something recently that I wrote down, I should have written the source. But it was saying that you have permission to be messy. PERMISSION TO BE MESSY. Meaning, don't ge...

Update: The Crudest Month

This last week's been a wash as I went from getting a steroid shot for my carpal tunnel to dinner with my family on Sunday and then coming down with what I assume was the flu. Built up a small mountain of tissues and throat lozenge wrappers by my bedside over the past few days, lost a lot of sleep but got a lot of reading done while going through the chills, coughing and insomnia. I shake very badly when I get a flu or fever, uncontrollably, like I'm getting tased. It's kind of wild, sometime...

Out Now: Catacomb of Torment #2

The latest issue of the latest EC Comics/Oni Press anthology features my first new comics work in a number of years. My script for the story "Red Blend" was illustrated by Lukas Ketner, colored by Francesco Segala with Sabrina del Grosso and lettered by Tyler Smith c/o Richard Starkings. it's an eight-page horror story that I hope reads as in the classic EC tradition without feeling like an homage or a retread. The main cover is by Ariel Olivetti (see below). There are multipl varian...

Reminder: Signing Tomorrow at JHU Comics

I'm going to be doing a signing at JHU Comics tomorrow, August 20th, for the release of Catacomb of Torment #2.

I have an eight-page story in the issue called "Red Blend" with art by Lukas Ketner and color work by Francesco Segala and color flatting by Sabrina Del Grosso. It's my first new comics work in some years and I'm very happy to be asked by JHU to sit behind a table and hopefully sign some stuff for some folks.

I'll be bringing index cards to do quick free sketches (if a...

New (Old) Stuff: Deadpool - Agent X Epic Collection

Got a notification that a package was coming my way today -- thought it was copies of Catacomb of Torment from Oni Press, but, nope, it's a comp of the DEADPOOL/AGENT X EPIC COLLECTION from Marvel.

The book reprints the two issues of Agent X that I wrote featuring the return of fan non-favorite Fight-Man (with very nifty art by Juan Bobillo and Marcelo Sosa). I actually love these two comics and am glad more folks will get to read, enjoy or be annoyed by them. members of Fight-Man's ob...

Catacomb of Torment #5: Necronomicomicon

Lo and behold, soon after posting about my second script for the EC revival series from Oni Press, the solicitation material gets posted online. yay and huzzah. So, it's all official-like, the story -- "Necronomicomicon" will be in CATACOMB OF TORMENT #5, scheduled for November 19th. And it looks like it got the cover story slot, with an illustration by Mark Buckingham. In the EC tradition, the cover doesn't exactly match up with the story, which is not a problem, in fact I'm very pleased the...

Update: JHU Comics Signing August 20th

Just got sent the flyer for next week's signing. So, we're set for 5-7 pm.

I'll definitely be there!

Sneak Preview (And Some Process Stuff)

Lukas Ketner inks for page 1 of Necronomicomicon. Our second story for the EC/Oni Press anthology CATACOMB OF TORMENT. If things go as planned, it will be running in issue #5.

Oni sent me the pages so I could do a run-through to check if there's anything that needs revising. I already went over the pencils and there were a batch of notes, mostly minor stuff making sure things align with the script, or the script gets revised to align with the art.

I think many readers aren't alway...

New Bill Dickey Index Card Drawing on eBay

Finished up a prelim take of a recent Bill Dickey drawing for someone.

4" x 6" on card stock.

eBay link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/257061543477

Back asap with some regular posts. August has turned out to be super-busy (had to turn down two very decent cover gigs, which is not something I usually have to do) and I'm back to my pain management doctor for my arm and hand. Got a bunch of trigger point i...

Signing at JHU Comics August 20th

Hey, folks, I'm going to be doing a signing at my old stomping grounds -- JHU Comics -- on August 20th, for the release of Catacomb of Torment #2. I have an eight-page story in the issue called "Red Blend", and it's a real corker (that's a pun, but you won't know it until you read it), with terrific art by Lukas Ketner and color work by Francesco Segala with color flatting by Sabrina Del Grosso. It's my first new comics work in some years and I'm very happy with how it turned out. And I was g...

Hmmmmm

A newly corrected page.

Do you know what the lettering screw-up was?

Another question. Why would we be doing corrections on a page that was already published?

For what reason would we be fixing pages?

Hmmmmm...

(That's a lot of lettering, so I'm not surprised I made mistakes and they got through me, Sarah, my editors and production after multiple passes and even printings of the comics and the collection).

Concrete Jungle (aka Life Stuff)

Some of you who have been following me for a while might remember the batles we've had with our old house. Basically, it's been falling apart. Several ceiling collapses, trees that came down in the backyard, last year's sewage pipe debacle that ran about twelve thousand dollars. Which we had to borrow. Well, Sunday night a dividing wall collapsed, womp womp. We were do for something.

Around 4 am Sunday night/Monday morning I hear a woman screaming in the street. My hackles go up because...

New Interview: Dollar Bin Bandits

I am the guest for the latest episode of the Dollar Bill Bandits podcast, which is now live on Youtube. Close to two hours of my derailing the conversation, going off topic, chasing tangents and forgetting what my point was in the first place. So, basically, the usual rambling interview I end up doing despite my attempts to answer questions simply. I am what I am.

We talked about Milk & Cheese, The Eltingville Club, Beasts of Burden, Fight-Man comics in general, animation, and you c...

New on eBay: Joe Gargagliano Index Card Drawing

New Eltingville Club card drawing on eBay: Joe Gargagliano, owner of Joe's Fantasy World. An ambassador of comics in the classic mode, he's single-handedly caused more people to stop buying and reading comics than Wertham. Celebrate the dire days of the direct market!

I don't think he'll go for much but I'm being a completist on these Eltingville cast drawings.

ebay link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2570413524...

Catacomb of Torment #2: Red Blend

Sneak preview of the story I wrote for the second issue of the EC/Oni Press title, Catacomb of Torment. Art by Lukas Ketner, colors by Francesco Segala and color flatting by Sabrina Del Grosso. Lettering by Richard Starkings and Comicraft.

I'm very happy with how the story turned out, the art has a nice throwback feel to the old EC stories in the Tormentor's narrative panels, and a more modern look in the story proper, especially with the color work. The lettering is an updated take on...

Update: 7/24/25

So, a few things.

First, I stopped into my local comic shop (JHU Comic Books) before therapy to say hey to Gore and talk about horror movies. While there I found out that there are two new reprints out that feature some of my writing.

From DC Comics, the SUPERMAN ADVENTURES COMPENDIUM collects a ton of the comics from the 90's Superman animated. We co-wrote the Supergirl two-parter for the show and for the comic series we wrote the (giant-sized) debut of the character. The art i...

FYI: Some New Card Drawings

Georgina is going to be made available to the top tiers here on the Patreon when I finish it.

The large Pete DiNunzio card is spoken for, NFS.

The Jay "Jaybird" Haynes (Northwest Comix Collective) card drawing is live on eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/257028096612

Welcome to Eltingville: Ward Willoughby Color Models

Perennial patsy and neighborhood guinea pig. Seemingly indestructible, existing on unbridled naivety and enthusiasm.

Named after Jack Carson's character in the movie LOVE CRAZY (1941). Voiced by MC Chris.

I liked Ward a lot.

Welcome to Eltingville: Jane Dickey Color Models

Had to scan some things including some models from the pilot (please don't read anything into it, it's not a project). So here's the two main color models for Miranda Jane Dickey, Bill's animated sister and nemesis, teen occultist, amateur alchemist, budding mad scientist and leader of a school girl gang. Ward Willoughby would have been her eternal guinea pig and puppet in her plots to destroy her brother and the Club.

She would have been one of the leads in the shelved Tyrone's Infern...

On Depression

I spent some time today answering messages on my Tumblr. I hear from young fans often enough about Eltingville helping them get through depression, and on Tumblr I'm often asked not to respond publicly to them, so I typed up a response in general. It's inelegant but hopefully makes some sense to some people who might need to hear some things. Figured it wouldn't hurt to post it here, as well.

I get messages from some folks about my work helping them get through some difficult ...

Old Sketchbook: More Bastard Squad Designs

Self-explanatory in the sketches. I still want to use these 'goon" designs somewhere, someday. Some of these ideas are transferable if I ever do any superhero work again. Maybe if I ever do more Kid Blastoff comics, which I still want to do, to beef up an all-ages collection of KB, Biff-Bam-Pow and all the Nickelodeon Magazine material we've done.

Time is the enemy.

Old Sketchbook: Character Stuff

Another image from the sketchbook found on my computer. Doodling out ideas and designs for an unproduced comic book project.

Old Sketchbook: Miscellaneous Creeps

Found some files. I remember liking the three creeps at bottom right and scanning this for a project. One that I doubt I'll ever get around to in the time I have remaining. That's the way it goes.

Update 7/7/25

My second script for the EC/Oni anthology Catacomb of Torment has been approved by editorial and the EC estate, with a few minor changes. I just finished up the revision, did an underlining run (underlining dialogue for the letterer to emphasize) and sent off some reference material for the artist.

It looks like I'll be working with Lukas Ketner again on this story. He illustrated my first EC script, "Red Blend", and I was extremely happy with the work he did on it. I asked my editor if...