Evan Dorkin

World's Funnest: Phantom Zone Sequence Script/Mike Allred Inks (Pgs 19)

Here's the new installment of the ongoing WORLD'S FUNNEST retrospective, this time we're looking at the Phantom Zone sequence, illustrated by Mike Allred and lettered by Tom Orzechowski. it's a sho...

Trying Not To Fall Asleep At 11:07 P.M.

I haven't drawn a single thing since my birthday, when I saw my psychiatrist (i have the best birthdays), and was heading into a big crash because I wasn't tapering off my ADHD medication but inste...

Back To Burden Hill

It's been a while since we've been there, so I'm doing a re-reading of all the published Beasts of Burden comics as well as the four notebooks of handwritten material I have on hand. I also have to...

Hey, Real Quick (At Least I'll Try To Keep It Quick)

Hey, folks. It's May, somehow, but here in NYC it feels and looks a lot like March. Someone needs to fire their PR team.

The good news is that today was Sarah's final cancer ...

Too Soon.

A brief message before heading back to bed, in order to continue sweating out my Fluvoxamine and getting through withdrawal. Oh, I mean, "discontinuation syndrome". My apologies.

Anyway....

Please Hold.

Hi. I'm having some issues owing to a switch in prescription medicines for my ADHD. 

The hope is that my new medication will help me with my lifetime of focusing and memory problems.&nbs...

House of Fun Update: 4/23/22

In case you have been wondering how things have been going with Sarah:

While the overall picture remains very positive, the last month and a half or so have been very difficult. She's been go...

Notice: The April 19th Post Has Been Unlocked For All Backers

It wasn't open to all backers for reasons of stupidity. 

Anyway, go look, if you haven't seen it.  Hopefully it's all fixed now.

And then keep it under your beanie.

Greetings, New Backers: Thanks To You, The Ship Will Sail

Hello to you new backers who are reading this (Hi!), who have joined the site because you fell for the following chicanery:

2022-04-21 03:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post

World's Funnest: Brian Bolland's Cover Inks, Colors, Alternate Colors

The title of the post pretty much tells the tale, other than letting you know that the "green cover" was Bolland's initial take on the cover colors. I felt it wasn't "apocalyptic" enough, and asked...

Don't Tell A Soul

 Shhhh.

World's Funnest: Silver Age Sequence Script/Notes (Pgs 1-18)

Hey, folks. 

Attached is a PDF of the script for the initial 18 pages of the World's Funnest one-shot from 2000. This opening section is what we referred to as the "Silver Age Sequence",...

Experiment #94

Things left behind.

See How We Are (4/6/22)

A quick update, unless I start rambling. I'll try not to. Busy day, and I want to try to get some work done before conking out. 

Also, Winky the Pirate Cat is being super needy and looki...

World's Funnest/Last Imp Standing: Original Concept Pitch/Plotline

if I posted this before, I apologize. I don't think I have. But I'm trying to kick off some more posts about World's Funnest so why not start at the beginning. 

Let's begin!

This w...

Show, Don't Tell

For something that got delayed, but will hopefully still happen.  Hope it happens. 

Experiment #93

Non-friendlies. Avoid.

WIP WTF: New M&C Comic Splash Page? Or Just A Pin-up? IDK!

It started several years ago as a header for a proposed M&C strip. 

Then I decided to turn it into a pin-up to sell.

Now I don't know if it will get turned back into an opening...

Experiment #92

That isn't a tree. 

Experiment #91

Memory and loss. 

What Fresh Hell? (Final?)

The label on the broken bottle needs to be flush to the glass, don't you think?

Otherwise, Onward To Mayhem. 

When I know more, you'll know more. 

What A New Yorker Rejection Slip Looks Like (In Case You Didn't Already Get One, or Thirty)

I did not get thirty, or hundreds, like some aspiring New Yorker cartoonists. I only got the one. 

And I deserved it because I sent in some sub-par stuff. Which I knew at the time was su...

Total To Creator: My First Royalty Report For My First SLG Comic (4/21/1989, Pirate Corp$! Special #1)

Read it and weep! Just a little bit. It isn't as terrible as it looks. Well, it is pretty lousy, but most folks did far worse back in the heady days of the post-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black a...

Update-O-Rama

2022 WFMU M&C T-SHIRT PREMIUM:

The WFMU fundraiser marathon has begun! Which means there's a week and half left for folks to get the 2012 Dance With Me Stanley X Milk & Cheese t-shirt...

Experiment 90

Coming or going?

Experiment #89

Yikes! 

Index Card Comic #11

The Devil Puppet is disgusted with me and refuses to appear in this comic. 

It's a long story. Not particularly interesting.

I swear. Really. Honest.

I'm sure he'll be back s...

Eltingville Uber Alles

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the initial airing of the Welcome to Eltingville pilot on the Adult Swim. Holy yeesh, right?

I didn't know it was the anniversary, someone reminded me on...

Rarities Dept: The Pirate Corp$!/Milk & Cheese Crossover From Munden's Bar Annual #2 (1991)

One of the more successful indy comics from the 80's was Grimjack, conceived by writer John Ostrander, with the series credited to Ostrander and artist Tim Truman as creators. Grimjack, a.k.a. John...

Process/Story Time: 2016 FCBD SpongeBob Comics Layouts

Chris Duffy is a name well known to the bulk of North American comics creators of my generation, as well as readers of the late, lamented Nickelodeon/Nick Magazine's comics section (or the Bizarro ...