Evan Dorkin

New Fun Strip: Myron The Living Voodoo Doll

I goofed on this one but I'm not going to redraw it. Myron is way too small in panel two, compared to other strips he's been miniaturized. Oh, well, if Walter Lantz and company could get away with Woody Woodpecker growing and shrinking within the same cartoon I can get away with it once in a while.

He's so small, though. Urgh. Maybe he was in a dryer and shrunk.

Holy waitaminnit -- that's a decent idea for another Myron strip. I can draw that one and then -- if and when I finally...

Inking With A Tombow Brush Pen (Video)

A few minutes of me futzing around with a Tombow brush calligraphy pen (the green one). I was mainly outlining figures. I went a little faster than I normally like to, I think holding the phone in my other hand made me concentrate harder or maybe my mood was good because usually I can't get this much done in three minutes. So I guess now I'll have to ink with a phone in my hand ha ha. No, because I was kind of nervous and after three minutes had to stop because I was worried I'd screw up. It ...

WIP 11-20-24

Pencils down.

The background clutter and shelves are going to get knocked out in color so they recede, but I still like my clutter to look cluttered. And I wanted to slip some characters from various DORK comics into the scene.

Worried about the inking stage, which is why I penciled so tightly. Tomorrow I'll start filling in black areas and outlining the figures and try to get as much done on the main characters as possible. I really need to get this thing done, it was supposed...

WIP 11-19-24

Slow but unsteady.

Mostly background details left. Then I can start inking. And do the title design while Sarah starts on the color work. Behind on so many things right now, it'll be a relief to have this off my hands so production can get started.

I also don't know what the hell was supposed to go in the word balloons for Milk & Cheese. I wrote it somewhere and have completely forgotten what the line was. I might have erased it from the side or top of the board. Ha ha on m...

Mad Magazine #518: Trademark Graffiti (Dec, 2012)

One of the toughest gigs I illustrated for MAD but one I was pretty happy with when all was said and done. The reason it was tougher than most of the assignments was that I had to find all the corporate logos, print them out and trace them into the body of the illustrations. Then I tried to work in different style of handwriting for as many of the graffiti elements as possible so they didn't look like one person did them all. And then came all the elements I don't usually tend to draw -- appl...

Old Convention Sketch: Predator/Bill And Ted (1991)

I'm not sure if I've posted this before, something seems awfully familiar to me about this old drawing.

Thanks to Juan Ruvalcaba for sending this along. I just dropped him a line and am including my response to his asking if I was asked often to draw the Predator.

He also commented that it seemed a difficult character to draw, which, for me, was true of most of what I drew back in 1991 (excluding Milk & Cheese, but even they looked pretty crappy at the time due to my amateur...

New Fun Strip: Uh-Oh! Deadline Trouble!

Just fyi, this strip is not a reflection of my current state of mind. Just some morbid humor. And a reflection on my inability to get anything done on time.

But if I do live another 27 years, I will definitely get some more comics made.

Hacktober Revival: Deneb and The Tala

The second Hacktober drawing that I began a few years ago and only finished now.

This guy is the leader of the alien schmucks from the movie Killers From Space (1954). The Tala is the goof on the monitor, he rules all of Astron Delta, the planet where these pathetic space killers come from.

I like drawing horror/SF losers and these poor slobs are some of the biggest losers in low-budget genre junkdom. They couldn't even straighten their egg carton eyeballs out. I mean, come on. ...

Forgot To Mention: Tear Them Apart Live Videocast Today

Too many social media sites, too few memory cells.

Paul Yellovich and I will be doing a live hangout on Youtube later today for the Halloween season. Once again we'll be joined by our guest Scott Dorward (Blasphemous Tomes/Good Friends of Jackson Elias podcasts, Call of Cthulhu RPG scenario writer, et al) to talk about the horror films we've been watching this October, the good, the bad and the fugly. We'll also be taking questions on the chat, and if things go as they usually do, Win...

Color Milk & Cheese Convention Sketch (1992)

Another old convention sketch, once again courtesy of Matt Powers. Gin!

I'm surprised the Sharpie lines haven't broken down as much as I've seen in some other old convention drawings. I wish I never used Sharpies back then, they often faded, and when they fade they turn green or blue. Yikes.

I don't think I could actually drink gin these days. Liquor burns my interior like a week of Italian food. Which I just went through -- almost two weeks, actually -- after my parents were in...

WIP 10-20-24

Slowly but surely.

Got two wrist braces now, chugga-chugga-chug.

Eltingville Club T-Shirts Now Available

We have new ELTINGVILLE CLUB t-shirt/sticker designs in our TeePublic shop.

The designs use the pin-up splash pages of the four characters taken from the Dark Horse Comics hardcover collection. The "favorite shit" text is included in the designs (unlike these placeholder images). Sarah is going to make jpegs of the final shirt designs from the TeePublic site asap -- she's also working on a membership card design.

These designs are on sale now and discounted down to $16 for the...

Hacktober Revival: Orville Dunworth

Some of you will remember the Hacktober drawings I did for Halloween a few years ago. I only got eleven of them finished (as usual, I started putting too much detail in and didn't have time to work on more of them).

Tonight I found an unfinished rough sketch of this guy from CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (1972), and I decided to see how quickly I could pencil and ink the piece. It went pretty well. There's a few things things I'd like to rework but I'm leaving it as is.

Spy Vs Spy Vs Milk & Cheese Commission

Back on the backlogged commissions while trying to finish a very late cover (that's being a pain in the ass, even though it's my own characters. A matter of trying too hard, I think).

This very late commission is 10" x 13", inked with Tombow calligraphy pens, Pitt brush pen, rapidographs. Corrections and effects done with Pentel jumbo correction pen, Brisk and Signo Uniball white ink pens. There might be some brushed-on white ink from a while back, as well.

I'll be scanning this...

1993 Milk & Cheese Con Sketch

Sent to me by Matt Powers, who I follow on Instagram (@mattctnt) where he posts wonderful pictures from the Blue Bell Foundation For Cats (@bluelbellcats) where he volunteers. I am in love with all the cats there and hope to name a few of the Swifties from Beasts of Burden after some of them. Claude is a blind cat I'm really taken with and look forward to seeing, and Haggis, and Bleys, and Billy, and, well, but they're all adorable. And well taken care of. It's always a breath of fresh air to...

Welcome to Eltingville: BG Design - Joe's Shop, Back Wall

This is my rough sketch for the back wall section of Joe's comic shop. I knew I was putting more detail and texture into the shop roughs than would translate to the actual background art, but I figured if I went crazy on it more of it would survive in the pilot. And they did keep a lot of the design elements I put into the backgrounds, simplified, of course, but still way more made it into the backgrounds than I expected. I really appreciated that.

I felt that Joe's shop really needed t...

Fun Strip Archive: Different Strokes For Different Folks

I know the images portray the silent movie indications of a heart attack rather than a stroke, but some things you chalk up to artistic license. Actual strokes don't sell the joke. I also realize this is a morbid subject for discuss cartooning process.

So, why Batman? Well, this involved a call back gag, Batman popped up in several Fun Strips within the same batch, so I threw him into this one for the last of the different folks. It works in or out of context, because an ailing cartoon...

New eBay Auction: Welcome to Eltingville D&D Lot

I put a new set of Welcome to Eltingville production art up on eBay if anyone is interested.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/256665238897

Where Monsters Lie: CULL-DE-SAC #3 Variant Cover Process

Above: process on the Where Monsters Lie variant.

1) Rough layout in red pencil, pencil.

2) Working on the background, using the blown-up rough on the lightpad.

3) Laying in the pencils off the lightpad.

4) Finished pencils

5) Finished inks

6) Colors by Sarah Dyer

7) Finished cover with logo, etc

Where Monsters Lie: CULL-DE-SAC #3 Variant Cover

This is floating around in solicitation and pre-order for online, so I can finally show it off. Colors by Sarah Dyer.

When I read through the PDF of the first issue I was taken with Mr. Wrinkly, I thought he'd fit in with the kind of twisty-stretchy-fleshy bit I've been doing with the "Experiment" index card drawings. I'm not sure if he tears faces off anyone but I felt like drawing stretched and wrinkly faces. And I really liked the design on Mr. Wrinkly.

I'll put together a proc...

World's Funnest: Super-Friends Sequence w/Art by Jay Stephens Pt 2 (Pg 37-39)

World's Funnest: Super-Friends Sequence w/Art by Jay Stephens Pt 1 (Pg 37-39)

After a prolonged delay, here's the latest installment of the ongoing WORLD'S FUNNEST retrospective. This time we're looking at the Super Friends/Hanna-Barbera segment, illustrated by Jay Stephens, colored by Lee Loughridge and lettered by Tom Orzechowski.

This section of the story was probably the most difficult as far as 'casting” an artist went. We needed someone who could pull off a solid Alex Toth impersonation – since Toth designed all the DC characters for the cartoon series ...

Another Eltingville Page Leaving Home

This is the original art for page three from the zombie crawl story, "They're Dead, They're All Messed Up". I scanned it before packing it up for a customer.

This has some of my favorite artwork from the series. The only Eltingville page I currently plan on keeping is the title page for it. There's now only one page left for sale from the story, one I wouldn't mind keeping if it sits. I drew this one differently from the usual Eltingville style, because it was for color. There's detail ...

Experiment #125

"Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day!" shouldn't be the last jumbled thought in your bleeding head before you die. But what can you do? Life's messy.

Sketches And Stuff

We're back in the house as of Friday. Still have a lot of cleaning and sanitizing to do. Tomorrow we find out what the repairs are going to cost and how much we'll owe my folks, who are fronting us the money. Then the fight with the insurance company begins. Everyone's very tired and the house is a mess. The shower is full of clay and dirt, but not sewage as we first thought, so, that's a relief. Unfortunately, there's so much dirt and grit around that inky is whizzing on the floors downstair...

On eBay - Jerry Stokes Eltingville Art

New eBay auction - original color drawing of Jerry Stokes from The Eltingville Club.

See the auction here, thanks for looking, thanks for any and all bids:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/256638168883

Update 9-11-24

We hit another patch of bad luck with the plumbing repair because the repaving in our neighborhood continued on Tuesday, so we had to postpone the appointment with the plumbers and they can't come until tomorrow (Thursday). The jackhammer supposedly starts jackhammering around 7:30 in the morning. Hopefully the job can be handled in one work day. I sure hope so.

We've been checking in on the cats and got things ready for the repair job. Cleared the downstairs and threw some tarps around...

Update 9-6-24

I will have limited use of my home studio and equipment for the next few days, at least until Tuesday, due to the sewage/plumbing situation in our house. The city is doing road repairs on Monday in our neighborhood so the people fixing the broken pipe can't park close enough to function. So, Tuesday it is, and hopefully they can take care of it in a day. Sarah's at the hotel room right now dealing with the insurance company.

I'm going to try to keep working on stuff while this is all sh...

Update 9-5-24

Whelp, our plumbing problem took a turn for the worse, to the point where Sarah has booked a hotel room because we have no water. There's a broken sewer pipe below our house, which I guess is good news in that it's not outside the house, and our insurance will supposedly cover the jackhammering of the concrete, the digging down and the repair. (but not the cost of the new pipe for some reason, the insurance rep didn't know why, either, and we're too busy and tired to look it up). The shower ...

Brooklyn Block Party This Saturday: Music, DJs, Comics

There's going to be block party in Brooklyn this Saturday with live music, DJs and vendors. The vendors include a bunch of cartoonists, including myself. I really don't have anything to sell, no books or comics in stock, but I'll be sitting with everyone and I'll bring pens and index cards and do sketches if anyone wants to buy one. And I'll be happy to sign any books anyone might bring. I don't think I'll be bringing any art, I don't think this is a venue for selling originals.

There...