Tom Spurgeon talks to Evan Dorkin:
I felt really weird about Dork! taking four years between issues. At the time I really started working on it, it was only about two years. I thought this was going to be a lot easier to do. I also thought I was going to do less pages with 29 panels on them and the like. I ended up being so pressured to finish, that I just kept going with what I knew and gridding these pages out and filling them up. [laughs] It’s like I was tiling a comic book.
I just don’t know if it’s funny. That’s really all this one has to be. I think I overdrew it and I think I overthought it, and I just don’t know… you just don’t know. I couldn’t try this one out in Toronto and then take it to Boston and then open it in New York. I did what anybody has to do who does a humor book. I’m not sure anybody gives a shit if I do anything at this point, four years later. I read on the Internet one or two people said it was an anticipated book, and I’m like [laughs] I don’t see it that way. It’s anticipated by me and by some of my readers. These days, with all the graphic novels and hardcovers being published, putting out a comic book feels like driving a Mini-Coop on the road with all those trucks from the movie Brazil. “Why are you doing this?”
Color me one of the readers anticipating the new book - Dorkin’s one of my favorite writers around, something that would probably amuse him as much as confuse him, from what I’ve read. But, hey! The new, anticipated, issue of Dork is due this Wednesday.
