Evan Dorkin's Blog, page 39

Ach du Lieber! Stan Lieber! Larry Lieber!

I recently finished up two pin-up commissions I've been nosing along for a while.

Dis is vun of dem. You enjoy, ja? 

Beasts of Burden Sells Out

Dark Horse formally announced yesterday on their website that they've sold out of the first printing of the Beasts of Burden collection, Animal Rites.

Small, polite round of applause. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Next paragraph.

A few weeks ago, the folks at Comic Book Jones told me that Diamond had listed the book as being on back order and I, being a bit of a pessimist (no, really?), took that to mean Diamond screwed up and buried the overstock in boxes of Batman: Widening Gyre or Batman...

Vote for Jill Thompson in The Scream Awards

My Beasts of Burden cohort (and all-around super-talented cartoonista) Jill Thompson was nominated for a Spike TV Scream Award (The Event Honoring The Most Popular Best In Sci-FI, Fantasy, Horror & Comics), which I've been meaning to mention here for some time (sometimes you tweet about something and forget to blog it). She's been tapped as a nominee in the "Best Comic Book Artist" category, which makes sense, because if she was nominated for "Best TV Show" that would make no goddamned sense ...

The Question of the Week: Drew Friedman

If you could commission the great Drew Friedman (go here, and here, and here, if you're somehow unfamiliar with his work) to do a drawing for you of any one person, whom would you choose?

I'm torn, myself, and haven't given it a ton of thought, because it is, after all, a lark. Friedman is amazing at capturing the essence of his subjects, wonderful when he applauds them, devestating when he condemns them. His old comics, often done with his brother, were highlights of the Raw-era. Whenever one...

Read Any Good Comic Books Lately?

I've been reading a lot of comics lately, but I have to admit they've pretty much been formulaic throwaway junk for the most part. I seem to be on a kick -- more than a kick, actually, it might have become a semi-obsession some time ago -- with serial and/or throwaway entertainment. Spider pulps, old time horror and mystery radio shows, Atlas-era horror and monster comics, EC comics, kid's comics, vintage comic strip collections, crime fiction, young adult fantasy novels, vintage horror short...

More Stuff On Ebay

We have some new listings up on eBay, art from various HOF projects, as well as some of Sarah's collectibles, and a near-complete run of the comics magazine Hogan's Alley.

The art includes more production pieces from the Eltingville pilot as well as storyboard sketches and character design material from several Super Martian Robot Girl segments from Yo Gabba Gabba!. Comics-wise we've listed a Milk and Cheese page, a Dork #11 gag page, the title page from the Superman/Batman strip I drew for B...

H.O.F. Update 8/21/10

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So, here's what's doing:

I finally finished up the Milk and Cheese strip for Image's Liberty Comics annual, which will be out in October. Other contributors to the CBLDF benefit book include Jill Thompson (collaborating with her husband, Brian Azzarello), Paul Pope, Garth Ennis, Dave Gibbons,  Frank Miller, Jeff Smith,  and a bunch of other people I don't think I've ever hung out with, so who needs 'em? This is the first M&C strip done since the Furries piece that ran on the DHC Presents about...

The Beetle

Here's another one of those Silver Age Marvel Comics villains I have a great fondness for. If I remember correctly, the name of the idiot wearing one of the more awkward super-villain suits of the era is one Abner Jenkins, a perfect schmuck name for a schmendrick character. I may be wrong, my Eltingville brain isn't as keen as it was once, and I dislike looking things up on Google and pretending I know what I'm talking about. It stifles conversation, don't you think? Sometimes it's nice to di...

Crusher Creel Absorbs Some Ink

Inked version of the Absorbing Man drawing I posted a while back.

Failures in Freelancing # Whatever

I forget what number I was up to, or even the name of the posts I used to write about things I've written or drawn for work purposes that went nowhere, or straight into the shitter. For all I know I've posted this sketch before, although I might be thinking of the General Zod designs I did for the Supergirl Animated one-shot Sarah and I wrote a ways back.

Anyway, this is my take on Solomon Grundy for a pitch I was working up for the Superman Adventures book. Found it the other day while cleani...