Evan Dorkin's Blog, page 17

Heads Up: Last-Minute NYCC Schedule

I had no plans to attend the New York Comic Con, but as it turns out I'll be going on Friday and Saturday to do some appearances for Dark Horse Comics. This was very last-minute, so my name might not get included in the schedules online, but unless this is a big practical joke on me, ha ha, here's where I'll be next week at the nerd mosh pit in the Javitz Center:

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12

6:30–7:30             Drawing on our Nightmares: Dark Horse Horror in Comics—1A14

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13

11:00 a.m.            DARK HORSE HORROR SIGNING: Tom Mandrake (To Hell You Ride), Tim Seeley (Ex Sanguine), Christopher Golden (Baltimore), Eric Powell (The Goon), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden).

I was told the folks doing the Saturday signing - Eric Powell, Christopher Golden, et al -- will also be on the Friday panel. I assume writer/editor Scott Allie will be at the panel, at least I hope so. If all goes well the entire House of Fun will be at NYCC on Friday, so some of you might get to see my daughter beat me up in the hall or something like that (I should never have let her watch that AWA documentary).

The full Dark Horse Comics schedule of signings and panels can be found here.

This will be a major event for me as it's the first panel I will be on in quite some time that wasn't called "Humor in Comics", or "Schmucks in Comics", etc. So I'm all a-tingle! And although it's a "horror signing", please feel free to bring copies of Milk & Cheese for me to scribble/doodle in as well as any Beasts of Burden stuff. Or whatever else I worked on. If you have The Goon #35 (or the last Goon trade collection) I can sign that along with Eric Powell. Really and truly I can, in accordance with maritime law and everything. 

Oh -- I guess I should let you know that I don't have a table at the show, so I won't be in artist alley or set up anywhere in the hall, I'm only doing what's on the schedule. I may be outside the Javitz Center selling cigarettes on Saturday night, though, if things get bad. I'll let you know.

See some of you next week, I hope. 

Last Call: Asbury Park Comic Con

Sarah and I will be setting up at the second Asbury Park Comic Con in at the Jersey shore tomorrow. We'll have the usual stuff -- art for sale and assorted comics (Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch, a few Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites copies, the last of my Milk and Cheese collection stash, The Guild trade collecting a cover I drew for the mini-series, The Goon trade with an issue I wrote, assorted Action Girl Comics back issues). We'll also have some crafty House of Fun stuff Sarah made as well as a selection of Emily's handmade hairpins (no, the hairpins have nothing to do with comics, other than my daughter made them. She's seven. Call the Comic Book Police and make a formal complaint, you meanies). It looks like we're all out of old H.O.F. merchandise like the Milk and Cheese toys, beer mugs, etc. I think we sold the last of those items at the first Asbury Con, now that I think of it.

Show opens at 11 pm, and there's a bar at the Asbury Lanes bowling alley/concert venue where the con is being held.

More event details here. Guest and exhibitor list here.

Perhaps we'll see you tomorrow.

Our Stuff Can Be Your Stuff

After a long hiatus we're trying once again to go through our stuff in order to donate, recycle, toss or sell some things we've picked up along our merry way and don't want anymore. Or, don't want but are still going to try to sell it, anyway. Towards that end, we have some collectibles and comics and odds and ends from our coffers up on eBay, including the very cool, I'm-not-sure-I-really-wanna-sell-it Japanese Charles Burns capsule toy figures that came out a while back (The Woodring capsule toys get sold over my tired, dead, broke body, though. So if you ever see us selling those on e-Bay, please alert The Comics Reporter and come to my funeral).

Also along for the ride: a pair of new, unopened DC Archives, a bunch of Medicom Planet of the Apes Kubricks, a couple of obscure Mego dolls (some crazy cave girl and Leela from the, "This is America, who cares?" days of Dr. Who) , some weird space dolls that I think are part of the Jane West line (not my field of geekdom), an X-Plus Ray Harryhausen Griffin figure, and some other stuff I'm forgetting about and am too lazy to check on. Oh, there's also a kid's Hello Kitty sewing machine that Emily outgrew.   

If you want to check the auctions out the link is here.

Thanks!

This Is..."In The News"

We've been working on a job for a while now that's kept us pretty occupied. If you're wondering what we're up to these days, that's it.

Otherwise: 

A reminder that we're doing the Asbury Con next week. And that The House of Fun one-shot is scheduled for December.

And:

I did some interviews recently for Back Issue (regarding the Bill and Ted comic, I'm officially a novelty act now), and for an issue of Creator-Owned Heroes. I fear that one because I don't think I said anything coherent or useful towards the notion of "creator-owned" anything. Or anything, for that matter. Another rambler. I think I did okay with the Bill and Ted interview. I might have even stayed on topic. I guess I need to do interviews on one specific topic. Right before dinner. So I keep to the subject. Because I like dinner.

A recent issue of Back Issue included some comments by me about working on the Space Ghost Coast to Coast show (see, "Novelty Acts, Vaudeville", above). They ran the picture of me that's on my Wikipedia page. Which I despise. Yes, I know that will push several of you to go look at the stupid picture. Life is crazy like that.

We did a three-page job for Mad that was a lot of work but mostly enjoyable. For me, at least. I didn't have to color it. I really like working for Mad, have I ever mentioned that? It's true.

It looks like I'll be drawing a short strip Sarah and I wrote for Bongo. Sarah will color it. A four-page strip I wrote is due out in the next month or two, I'm really looking forward to seeing it. More on that when I'm not too lazy to look things up. Also, it turns out a four-page strip I wrote turned up in Bongo's SDCC exclusive (it was originally done for an Olympics tie-in that was available in the U.K. and Australia, or something like that). I had no idea until I got the comps.

Might do a CD cover for a band. Might not. Scheduling will tell.

I finished a script that I ended up co-writing with Sarah. It needs cutting down for reasons that don't have a lot to do with the actual script. I don't mind revisions but I'm sorry to have to wrestle with this one some more because it was tough to write and I'm nervous about a re-match. It'll get done, but I'm stressing over it. Which is silly, I know, but I'm a silly person with silly person problems.

Two other scripts are giving me trouble. Too many ideas, not enough brains. They'll get done. Everything will get done, right?

Actually, there's a project I'm involved with that's moving like senile molasses and it's driving me bugnuts. 

Conference calls may be in our future. Nothing to get excited about. Still, they make me nervous (See "People, Silly", above).

Not sure if I'll be at NYCC or not. Might have a signing. Nothing definite.

I got my copies of the French and Italian versions of the Beasts of Burden collection. It's really interesting, to me, at least, to see the re-designed elements, the size and format changes, etc, the different publishers choose to go with. The French edition has a dust jacket and is as tall as the American edition, but not as wide. The front cover design was changed a bit, the title font is different (it looks really nice). The Italian version is smaller and in paperback. The Spanish edition has some differences, as well. Everyone used different quotes for the back cover, the French edition ran photos of Jill and I (I sent them a photo where my face is blocked, because I'm unhappy with the way I look in most photographs. See, "Stupid Pictures, Wikipedia", above, as well as "People, Silly").

And that's this edition of, "In The News". I'm Christopher Glenn.

More Of Them HOF Auctions

We have some more original art pieces up on the chopping block: a Milk and Cheese sketch card, a Triton (from The Inhumans) sketch card, a Bill and Ted's Excellent Comic Book page (with Death), a Hellboy: Weird Tales page (black metal band and Roger the Homunculus), a Frightful Four pin-up (original line-up, yo), a batch of Welcome to Eltingville production sketches (the club as D&D characters), and a batch of Yo Gabba Gabba! monster sketches (from the "Sprinkle and the Bake Off" Story Time segment).

You can see the auctions here. They started a few days ago, but I kept forgetting to blog about them. Brilliant, I know.

As always with these things, thanks for looking, thanks for any bids anyone might throw our way, thanks for still reading this blog, etc.    

(Insert CRICKETS CHIRPING SFX here)

Asbury Comic Con, September 29th

I've been remiss in getting the word out sooner on this -- Sarah and I will be appearing at the second Asbury Park Comic Con in NJ on Sept 29th. Other guests will include my fellow former Instant Pianist Stephen Destefano, Dean Haspiel, and Larry Hama, and others. You can see some of the guests and exhibitors (including Top Shelf) here.

This is the second (and possibly last) time the Asbury show is being held at Asbury Lanes, a music venue in an old bowling alley (with working lanes, sometimes folks actually still bowl there). Organizer/cartoonist Cliff Galbraith might be taking the show to another, larger space in the future. It's a super-nifty show space, hopefully they'll be playing the punk rock with the new wave over the speakers again. Always nice to sign books to The Clash.

We'll be hauling copies of the Milk & Cheese hardcover (we have the last batch from Dark Horse) and some art, copies of Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch, the Goon trade I wrote a story for, some other odds and ends.

We had a great time at the first show in May, hopefully we'll see some of you folks at the Lanes later this month.

House of Fun One Shot

This is the cover for the House of Fun one-shot coming out in December from Dark Horse Comics. Sarah did the colors and assembled it on the computer, I did the pencil and inky stuff.

House of Fun will collect the material that ran in Dark Horse Presents #10-12, which was a bunch of Milk and Cheese pages, a 7-page Eltingville Club story, a 6-page Murder Family story and six pages of four-panel Fun strips. There's also a new back cover, a new inside front cover, we added a page of Fun strips that originally appeared here on the blog, tossed in a black and white Fun page I did a few years back for a humor anthology called Dose, and cobbled together a page of scribbles and sketches for what would have been the cover of Dork #12.

Which is pretty much what this is.

All in color (save one page) for 35 dimes.

Thanks for looking. Over and out.

Triton

2 1/2" by 3 1/2" sketch card. Brush marker, rapidograph, markers.

Triton of the Inhumans created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for Marvel Comics.

Bat-Mite

9" by 11" private commission, pen and ink, brush marker, rapidograph, pop!

Still needs coloring.

Fight-Man One Shot, Page 22 Pencils

This is how I used to draw some of my comics back in 1993. I penciled (and wrote) the Fight-Man one-shot for Marvel while I was also working on pages for Milk and Cheese and Dork. Probably also doing stuff for Instant Piano and Deadline and a few punk zines and the like. Weird career back then, no doubt about it. Got a lot done, that's for sure. If I could only turn the work out like that now...