Dollar Bin Bandits

Evan Dorkin


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Today, we welcome legendary alternative comics creator Evan Dorkin for a wild and woolly interview that (sometimes) explores his unique career and projects. He shares his origin story of discovering comics as a kid growing up in Brooklyn and Staten Island, working at comic retailer Jim Hanley's store during high school, and his transition from wanting to study animation at the School of Visual Arts to focusing on comics at NYU. We jump into his cult classics Milk and Cheese and Dork (from Slave Labor Graphics), discussing the independent comics scene in the late '80s and early '90s and how he developed his unique brand of anarchic humor that both celebrates and satirizes fandom. Evan opens up about his most beloved and infamous creation, The Eltingville Club, which earned him multiple Eisner Awards for its brutal takedown of toxic fan culture. We touch on his work writing for animation including Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Superman: The Animated Series (where he and wife Sarah Dyer created the character Livewire), his irreverent Superman and Batman: World's Funnest one-shot, and his multiple Eisner Award-winning collaboration with Jill Thompson on Beasts of Burden. We even get into his satirical superhero character Fight-Man, why this is the greatest time to be a geek, and why we all still complain so much!


You can find and follow Evan all over social media, including Instagram, Bluesky, Tumblr and more: @evandorkin. And check out his Patreon: patreon.com/evandorkin!

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Dollar Bin Bandits is the official podcast of TwoMorrows Publishing. Check out their fine publications at twomorrows.com.

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Thank you to Sam Fonseca for our theme music, Sean McMillan for our graphics, and Pat McGrath for our logo.

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