Then in 2005, both Jill and Evan received Eisners in the category of Best Short Story for “Unfamiliar,” another story about their canine heroes that appeared in the Dark Horse Book of Hauntings. The story was called “Stray” and it won Jill an Eisner Award in 2004 for Best Painter. He was teamed up with artist, Jill Thompson, to write a story about a group of dogs living on the imaginary “Burden Hill” for the Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft. In 2003, Dark Horse again approached Dorkin. Also for DC, Evan wrote and drew the Bizarro Comics graphic novel in 2001 and Bizarro World in 2005. This led to an Eisner Award in 2002 in the category of Best Writer/Artist: Humor. In 2001, Dorkin was hired by DC to contribute to the Superman and Batman: World’s Funnest graphic novel. He even did a short unmemorable stint with Marvel between 19 working on Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Comic Book. ‘Nuff said. Although both these assignments were accepted for monetary compensation only, they lead to a relationship between Evan and Dark Horse which would pay off in spades many years later. This was followed in 1993 by Predator: Bad Blood. Then in 1993, Dorkin came out with the first of 11 issues of Dork!, a loosely autobiographical farce, also published by Slave Labor.Īlso in 1991, Evan got his first job from Dark Horse, Predator: Big Game. The work was considered so pivotal in the annals of independent comics, that the graphic novel compilations of this series have never gone out of print to this day. With the demise of Eternity, Evan took his next project, Milk and Cheese, to Slave Labor in 1991. There was also a book called Wild Knights, which nobody I have asked ever saw a copy of. He started his career in the 80s with a comic called Pirate Corps, later renamed Hectic Planet, published by Eternity Comics. Fanboy extraordinaire, Evan Dorkin has spent a lifetime making fun of himself.

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