Evan Dorkin

Old Sketchbook Page, Old Thoughts, Old Bad Habits

I barely touch the few, old, yellowing sketchbooks I have.

I have never been much of a sketchbook-type cartoonist. Part of the reason is because I hated having a space to see my many disappointing and failed attempts at drawing. Another is that for many years, I mainly did roughs on loose pieces of typing/printer paper. When I was done with those, I could throw them out (or, nowadays, rec...

Random Old Commission Post Before I Get Something To Eat

I don't draw the Red Skull/Baron Zemo Milk & Cheese characters anymore, because Nazis stopped being old pop culture bogeyman that you'd see getting punched out or made fun of. The pastiches appeared in a M&C-styled strip in Captain America Red, White and Blue some time back, the story was called "Der Last Time I Stormed Paris", if I remember correctly. I really enjoyed working on that o...

Unseen, Unpublished: Emergents

Some of you who have stuck around since the early days of this Patreon might remember a mystery project that I talked about some time ago, which I eventually parted ways with because NFTs were involved. It was an amicable split. My longtime friend Brian David-Marshall created and was running the project, using his Emergents characters, which he developed for a trading card and online game syste...

Quick Update

Hey, folks, apologies for a quiet week here. I've been pretty busy/occupied, largely because of health-related stuff. Therapist, psychiatrist and periodontist, started physical therapy for my arm and neck, tomorrow I'm seeing the neurologist again. I have an appointment with the hand specialist in early January. The good thing is my hand's doing fairly okay.  And my arm is in less pain fro...

Welcome to Eltingville: Toy Aisle Color Background (w/Background)

In the Welcome to Eltingville pilot there's a "day in the life" montage of the Club members going about their club business, visiting various neighborhood shops and businesses in search of collectibles. One of their stops is a local toy store, which was based on the Toys R Us that used to be in the Hylan Shopping Plaza in New Dorp, Staten Island. In the 90s I used to haunt the place, mostly loo...

Welcome to Eltingville: Opening Title Storyboards

Storyboard by Stephen DeStefano.

I don't remember much about how the title sequence came about. I didn't even realize at the time that we were going into production that it was something that I was going to be dealing with. I just hadn't thought of it and I don't think it was included in the contract. It was a separate task that if I remember correctly was an extra paycheck. I think it's ...

Watch This Space

I scanned Stephen DeStefano's storyboard for the Welcome to Eltingville opening title sequence. I'll be posting it here in the next day or two. 

In other news, my father died last week. So things have been weird. Not sad. Well, sad, but not in the way someone might expect. Like my sister said, it's a sadness for what might have been. My father is undeserving of my sadness. I would no...

Experiment #109

I made a mess of this one but I posted it anyway because I think the face came out really creepy. These are experiments, after all. 

Speaking of which,  I got a note from a backer about there being a possible mistake in the numbering. I took a look at my file and there seems to be a gap of a few missing numbers. And it looks like I may have posted a drawing twice under two numbe...

Incoming/Upcoming!

The Milk & Cheese resin figures from H&H Toys are scheduled for a third official drop on Wednesday, November 22nd. Exact time for the drop is still to be determined.

As before, these figures are hand-pulled from molds and set supplies will be limited. If things go the way they have before, they will sell out pretty quickly. 

This drop will be the basic figure set, not t...

Experiment #108

No one's sure if it even is Davey.

The eyes seem the same. Sort of. No one wants to get close enough to get a really good look.

All it does is wail. Chris said it howls, but everyone else agrees it sounds more like wailing.

Either way, it doesn't sound like Davey.

But still. Those eyes...

Eltingville As A Meme

If you don't follow me on Twitter -- and I wouldn't blame you if you don't -- the past month or two has been kind of bizarre for me on that site. At the same time that I was trying to ratchet down my involvement on Twitter -- for obvious reasons -- my feed gained over three thousand new followers. And they're not bots. Almost all of them are Eltingville Club fans.  And they're mostly young...

Rough WIP

Next thing I'm pushing around. Juggling in with commissions and layouts for a thing, and trying to come up with an idea for another thing. 

Been dealing with multiple contracts recently. None of it is for new material, but it means I'll have some stuff out next year to push. I hope to be able to tell folks about these projects soon. One of them is a licensed item that's pretty intere...

Don't Tell A Soul

Colors by Sarah. 

Will let you know when it's solicited. Actually, a lot of you will probably know before I do. I have no idea what's going on anymore in comics. 

Hacktober Halloween Index Card Drawings #16-29

These bring the Hacktober index card drawings up to date, including the two I got done last week. When things settle a bit I might try to knock out a final two to finally complete the 2021 batch.  

As mentioned in the previous Hacktober art dump, you can see where my original plan -- to just draw very sketchy, barely rendered figures with minimal-to-no backgrounds -- really went out ...

Listen: Archived WFMU Halloween Show

If you have any interest, you can listen to my guest appearance on DJ Fox's show on October 29th. The archived episode can be found here: https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/133369

We picked three old-time horror radio shows to play during the broadcast, which we talked about., as well as OTR horror stuff...

Hacktober #29

For many, many years I wanted to see The Hideous Sun Demon. It was constantly pictured in magazines like Famous Monsters of Filmland and I always thought -- as a kid -- that The Hideous Sun Demon looked kind of nifty. It took me decades and the invention of Youtube for me to finally catch up with this infamous shlock cheapie, and it's a real pile of dreck, let me tell you. Of course I enjoyed i...

Hacktober #28

I found several unfinished Hacktober index card drawings from 2021.  So I finished two of them. I'm going to post them tomorrow on the plain ol' social media, hopefully I can get another one done sometime. It would be nice to have all 31 days covered for Halloween. I've thought about using these to make a zine. Or something. When I have some extra time. I mean, when I have some "extra time...

Sneak Preview

Shhhhh.

Welcome to Eltingville: Ward Willoughby

This was the end result of some back-and-forth between myself and the artist at the Cartoon Network that was doing the clean up drawings over my designs. You can see my anxiety all over the noes. Anytime a design went through several revisions I felt like I was annoying someone, but no one ever sent me anything for me to feel nervous about. I was very nervous during the production of the pilot....

Where You Can Find Me This Saturday/Sunday

More like, where you can listen to me this Saturday/Sunday. If you care to.

FIRST, I'll be joining some folks (and their avatars, iirc) on Twitch to talk about this, that and The Eltingville Club: 

VTuber Comic Club -- Saturday at 5pm Eastern https://twitch.tv/eggch

THEN, at 3 a.m. EST, I will be a live in-st...

Hacktober Halloween Index Card Drawings #1-15

I probably posted these here during the 2021 Halloween season, but in any case, I found these files after I forgot all about them and have been posting them on my social media sites. Here's the first 15 in case you haven't seen them before. 

I have another thirteen or so of them left to post, as well as a few new ones. I looked in my index card box and found a handful of unfinished H...

Another Freebie M&C Convention Sketch

Thanks to Mitch for sending photos of these old drawings along.

Welcome To Eltingville Production Art/BG: Ironjaw

I'm going through the remaining character designs I did for the Adult Swim Eltingville Club pilot. 

I haven't looked at this stuff in some time. I have two binders filled with photocopies of the pencil designs I did and the inked versions done by artist staffers at the Network. With the recent interest online regarding the pilot and the comic I'm also going to root around for the ori...