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Interview: The Comics Journal (Patreon)

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2026-07-09 22:59:53
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2026-11
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I was interviewed by Jason Bergman about the Nerd Inferno collection for The Comics Journal a few weeks before the book came out. The article was posted earlier this week on the TCJ site (I haven't been able to post on the patreon for a few days because I've been sick and in bed since Saturday. Still a phlegm factory but I am so backed up on work I had to try to get some things done today before heading back under the covers. At least it's not COVID, I tested negative, so, hooray for that).

It's a long (rambling, because that's how I talk, as most of you are well aware of) read that covers the three comic series that make up the book -- Milk & Cheese, Dork and The Eltingville Club. We talked about the origins of each project, as well as some of my Hollywood experiences with people trying to option M&C, the autobio breakdown issue of Dork (#7) and my mental/emotional health issues and the resurgence of interest in The Eltingville Club that led to the Nerd Inferno project at Dark Horse Comics. Many of these anecdotes will be known to older readers, but hopefully the interview is of interest to new and older readers alike.

Link to the interview: https://www.tcj.com/it-hasnt-really-struck-yet-that-this-is-my-life-in-a-book-evan-dorkin-talks-nerd-inferno/

I have three more interviews scheduled in the coming weeks, I think they're all for podcasts and will be in video form. Hopefully I'll look like a human being by next week when the first one is scheduled to take place, because I look like absolute hell right now. My skin is beet red and enflamed and I'm still coughing all the time. The cold is exacerbating my lower back pain -- which has become considerably worse since the tour -- and I'm having serious trouble bending or walking downstairs. I couldn't physically get out of bed unti yesterday without sounding like a fistfight. I've been sleeping eighteen hours a day (in shifts) since Monday, pilled up heavily on pain meds. Getting sick sucks, getting old sucks. Take better care of yourself than I did, gang. Watch your posture. Take breaks from the drawing table/computer. Stretch. Breathe. Exercise. And try to stay on top of your deadlines, so you don't have to work sick. I have a commission to finish and a script and I am not in great shape to be working on either but after losing all this time I'm stuck. I always say "one day I'll learn" but at this poitn who knows how many days you have left? In case you haven't noticed, I've also been in a pretty bad depression. Hopefully that'll burn out once I'm better. I think it's feuling all the nightmares I've been having while sick-sleeping. Seeing some pretty wild horror movies in my sleep these days. Some have been pretty cool, some have been horrifying. I'd like some comedy thrown in for a change. Or no dreams at all. Oy.

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jace mulcahy

feel better!!! colds suck, especially summertime ones 😵‍💫😵‍💫

FatalVows

Homie went on tour now he suffers the consequences

Ivan Cockrum

Reading this Comics Journal interview got me thinking about how I came to know you originally. I lived on Staten Island for a few years in my teens in the 80s and I remember seeing your creature drawings on the walls at Hanley's, but I doubt that I was aware of who you were at the time. Later I was buying Milk & Cheese as it came out, so there's that, though I can't recall whether I ever met you in person. If I had it woulda been at a con that my dad attended, I guess, because I generally only went to cons to hang out with him. And weirdly I vaguely remember my dad's wife Paty telling a story about you – I guess she did some coloring for you? Probably on Pirate Corp$ / Hectic Planet? And you had loaned her some reference material in the form of some record albums that were rare or at least of great sentimental value? (Sorry for all the question marks, this really is a vague memory.) Anyway, time passed, and quite some time later she brought them to a convention she knew you'd be at in order to return them, but I'm not sure she'd met you / knew what you looked like, and in her telling, she wandered past you with the albums under her arm, and you, recognizing the albums but not knowing they were your actual copies, gave her the saddest look of longing, before you guys made the connection.

Evan Dorkin

Paty colored the first two Eternity issues of Pirate Corp$!. Your dad did some work for the Thunder Agents revival at Deluxe Comics where Brian Marshall worked as an editor. Brian formed Eternity Comics later on and picked up Pirate Corp$!, we had met while Alan Rowlands and I pitched Phigments to Deluxe (Turned out Deluxe publisher David SInger didn't have the legal right to publish Thunder Agents, he decided they were public domain, and lost a lawsuit. He was apparently a piece of work). I'm wondering if Paty did any work for Brian at Deluxe, but he hired her for PC$!. Sales were too low to sustain the color budget so it was b&w after #2. I do remember lending Paty the albums but not the rest of the story. There wasn't any other way to send reference for that stuff -- small outfit ska albums and 2-Tone records -- no books or anything. So I sent what I had to. They probably weren't worth a ton (not that I had the money for any kind of real record collection, I had comics to buy), just somewhat hard to obtain back in the day. So long ago. I still have those records packed away in the basement. One day I'll get a record player...

Ivan Cockrum

Yeah, I remember the Thunder Agents deal. My dad was a huge Wally Wood fan, - heavily inspired by him I think, you can totally see the influence in his X-Men work - and was pretty excited to get to work on that, did some good work on it, too. I have those issues of course, and a mini-poster he drew that those guys were handing out at a con I attended with him around that time. It really was a shame how that all worked out. All I really remember about those guys is them being insanely pleased with themselves for working in “BARSOOM!!!” as an explosion sound effect. I’m always impressed that you remember the details of these events when I can’t even remember the names of the people involved.

Evan Dorkin

I can see the Wood influence! I don't remember "BARSOOM!" but that's the kind of thing too many comics people were inordinately pleased with back in the day. Maybe still? Roy Thomas is still alive, after all. I mainly remember this 1980's comics trivia because I'm still friends with Brian David-Marshall, and I'm always a comics nerd. I bought those comics back in the day. And I remember the Comics Journal running a picture of the front door to David Singer's (mother's?) apartment after he fled from whoever asked him about the lawsuit. The scoundrels of comics are always of interest to me. And it's hard to forget something that felt like actual "journalism" in the "press" back then. Or now.