I don’t make GNs and there’s no place for my humor stuff in the direct market. I’m tired of still having to convince people to buy my stuff, 30 yrs in. It’s okay for me to live a cartoonist’s life, and your partner makes the crazy choice to be there, but your child doesn’t. I should have chased money and stopped pushing my own work bc the 90s are long dead. I should have left SLG a decade earlier, but I was loyal and fearful etc. But I was fearful and resistant to change.

We had better credits than a lot of full-time animation people. I should have just gotten an agent and tried to do animation stuff full-time when I had the chance. I’m just tired of all this.ĭorkin begins by discussing the financial difficulties that his career has entailed: I’m getting too old to live this marginally, especially when I have a collaborator comicblocking the most profitable project I have going.

I always used to say I’d never quit comics but I also said I’d never do variant covers and I caved on that one. Recently, Dorkin took to his Twitter to express his honest feelings on the devastating hardships and oft ignored downsides of working in the industry: Having worked in the comic book industry since 1989, Dorkin is no stranger to the inner workings and professional hardships that his job entails. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Įvan Dorkin is a veteran comic book creator best known for his original creations Milk & Cheese and Beasts of Burden.Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window).Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window).Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window).Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window).Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window).Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window).Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window).Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window).

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