Evan Dorkin

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Colors by Sarah Dyer.

As she pointed out, I goofed up the braces -- there's no way they could get stuck that way. And she's right! I'm a poser, apologies to you all. ha ha. Ughhh!

I'm very happy with how this came out. Well, mostly. On my end of things, I think the pose got stiffened up in the final, probably shou...

Tear Them Apart Livecast: 2023 In Review (Sort Of)

Hey, gang, if housebound tonight with nothing planned or plan to be drawing some comics or assembling a Gundam model or just need to get around to folding the laundry*, my friend Paul Yellovich and I are going to be doing another live Tear Them Apart podcast hangout on Youtube at 8 PM EST. So feel free to hang out with us as ...

Buzz Buzz Buzz

Finished raw inks.  Definitely some things I would change if I could, there's one major section that is a patch, but it worked out mostly okay in the end. I overworked the halo texturing, it's not as wiry and sinuous as I had it in the pencils. I tend to always overdo crosshatching/texturing sections. Making those kinds ...

A Different WIP Cover

I pulled this old thing out to practice on before inking the "fly" variant cover I've been working on (which is finished). Look how smudged up it is. I'm all out of kneaded erasers. 

Someday, somehow, in some format or other, there will be a Dork #12. 

Or not. I might get run over by a team of oxen on my...

Still Figuring Things Out (WIP)

At some point you have to put the pencils down and pick up the inking tools. There's a few things I would like to take another stab at but this has to get finished. It never matches the roughs insofar as spontaneity, energy and "motion" goes.

I have a problem in seeing the forest for the trees, or the image for the deta...

Process: Figuring Things Out

Shhhh. This is all secret-like for the time being. 

Okay? Okay, good. 

Read on. 

Okay. Here's where that fly guy drawing I posted a little while back is going.

I wasn't looking at any reference ...

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....

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 Storm...

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 c...

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 thin...

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...

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 ...

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 wh...

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 number...

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 pre...

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...

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 th...

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, bare...

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 dur...

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,...

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 someth...

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...

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:/...

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 o...

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 regar...