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In 2002 the Eltingville comic-book-science-fiction-fantasy-horror and role playing club made the leap from the pages of Evan Dorkin's Dork comic into an animated pilot for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, as Welcome to Eltingville. Sadly the series wasn't picked up, but the pilot is available on Youtube: part 1, part 2, part 3 (bonus title music by the Aquabats. Sadly so far the Northwest Comix Collective hasn't made the same leap.
Well, they have juxtaposed juxtaposition.
posted by MartinWisse at 1:13 PM on September 4, 2013
posted by MartinWisse at 1:13 PM on September 4, 2013
One of the lovely nerd touches that wasn't in the original comic but was in the animated pilot was when the fight breaks out, the other nerds stand around and chant "ECW! ECW! ECW!" which was PERFECT.
posted by ShawnStruck at 1:16 PM on September 4, 2013
posted by ShawnStruck at 1:16 PM on September 4, 2013
It's a damn shame that Eltingville is only available as part of an omnibus DVD set, and I think even that is out of print.
Somewhere there is a universe that contains the Eltingville / Amazing Screw-On Head Power Hour and they tell dark stories about what would have happened had those two not been picked up.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 1:35 PM on September 4, 2013
Somewhere there is a universe that contains the Eltingville / Amazing Screw-On Head Power Hour and they tell dark stories about what would have happened had those two not been picked up.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 1:35 PM on September 4, 2013
Ooooh. I just found my next sort-of time waster.
/Evan Dorkin 4Evah
posted by Kitteh at 1:42 PM on September 4, 2013
/Evan Dorkin 4Evah
posted by Kitteh at 1:42 PM on September 4, 2013
Eltingville was cool. A Milk & Cheese cartoon would be way better though.
posted by davelog at 1:56 PM on September 4, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by davelog at 1:56 PM on September 4, 2013 [4 favorites]
I'm hoping that the Eltingville crew gets to wrap up their story with the long-rumored tale of the trip to San Diego Comic-Con, followed by a trade paperback of all their stories. I demand more bitter, cynical fun for all!
posted by JDC8 at 2:01 PM on September 4, 2013
posted by JDC8 at 2:01 PM on September 4, 2013
So this gets the gas face and Tim and Eric are still allowed to make TV shows. #fail
posted by pxe2000 at 2:24 PM on September 4, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by pxe2000 at 2:24 PM on September 4, 2013 [1 favorite]
I knew I recognized that little kids voice. It's MC Chris in his first voice acting job (as listed on IMDB).
posted by daq at 2:54 PM on September 4, 2013
posted by daq at 2:54 PM on September 4, 2013
More of a Pirate Corp$/Hectic Planet fan myself...
posted by JARED!!! at 3:15 PM on September 4, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by JARED!!! at 3:15 PM on September 4, 2013 [3 favorites]
A Milk & Cheese cartoon would be way better though.
IIRC, Evan once talked about being contacted by some network or another about the possibility of doing a Milk & Cheese animated series sometime in the pre-South Park/Adult Swim '90s. Apparently the network suits were under the delusion that these were characters that could be successfully sanitized for a normal television audience, like the Ninja Turtles. Once Dorkin explained to them that M&C's chief (sole?) defining characteristic was raging alcoholism, that pretty much ended that.
posted by Strange Interlude at 3:16 PM on September 4, 2013 [3 favorites]
IIRC, Evan once talked about being contacted by some network or another about the possibility of doing a Milk & Cheese animated series sometime in the pre-South Park/Adult Swim '90s. Apparently the network suits were under the delusion that these were characters that could be successfully sanitized for a normal television audience, like the Ninja Turtles. Once Dorkin explained to them that M&C's chief (sole?) defining characteristic was raging alcoholism, that pretty much ended that.
posted by Strange Interlude at 3:16 PM on September 4, 2013 [3 favorites]
Beasts of Burden cartoon for kids in the manner of Watership Down/Plague Dogs.
posted by Artw at 3:24 PM on September 4, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Artw at 3:24 PM on September 4, 2013 [2 favorites]
Around 1991 or so, I was working at KSJS, San Jose State University's college station... and Evan Dorkin came in and dropped off a big stack of Milk & Cheese and Pirate Corp$ #1 at our radio station, free for anyone to pick up. Nobody knew who the hell he was. In truth, he wasn't anyone yet.
They actually sat around for a long time. There were still some around the station months later, gathering dust in an embarrassingly tall stack, if I remember right. Because the kid left a lot of em. Thankfully, I thought they were pretty fun and well executed for a local thing, and kept one of each, which I still have... but I wish I had grabbed more!
About two years after this, I was living about three houses away from Slave Labor Graphics' place in S.J. Met Jhonen Vasquez near there once, but I didn't actually recognize him until a year later, when I was like "Who is it that's doing this really cool comic?!" Oh. It's that guy who hung out in your favorite cafe, doodling all the time.
I wish I was a bit more knowledgeable about comic books back then, but at least I did buy first editions of all the Batman - Dark Knight series, because, well... Batman Dark Knight.
posted by markkraft at 3:24 PM on September 4, 2013 [1 favorite]
They actually sat around for a long time. There were still some around the station months later, gathering dust in an embarrassingly tall stack, if I remember right. Because the kid left a lot of em. Thankfully, I thought they were pretty fun and well executed for a local thing, and kept one of each, which I still have... but I wish I had grabbed more!
About two years after this, I was living about three houses away from Slave Labor Graphics' place in S.J. Met Jhonen Vasquez near there once, but I didn't actually recognize him until a year later, when I was like "Who is it that's doing this really cool comic?!" Oh. It's that guy who hung out in your favorite cafe, doodling all the time.
I wish I was a bit more knowledgeable about comic books back then, but at least I did buy first editions of all the Batman - Dark Knight series, because, well... Batman Dark Knight.
posted by markkraft at 3:24 PM on September 4, 2013 [1 favorite]
I hate that Evan Dorkin is not a household name, even in some comics circles.
The semi-recent House of Fun one-shot has a phenomenal Eltingville strip where they attend a zombie walk and fail spectacularly to take it back from Fast Zombie fans. Track one down!
posted by Rustmouth Snakedrill at 4:11 PM on September 4, 2013 [1 favorite]
The semi-recent House of Fun one-shot has a phenomenal Eltingville strip where they attend a zombie walk and fail spectacularly to take it back from Fast Zombie fans. Track one down!
posted by Rustmouth Snakedrill at 4:11 PM on September 4, 2013 [1 favorite]
More of a Pirate Corp$/Hectic Planet fan myself...
A Hectic Planet TV show would have had the best soundtrack.
posted by RobotHero at 8:05 PM on September 4, 2013 [2 favorites]
A Hectic Planet TV show would have had the best soundtrack.
posted by RobotHero at 8:05 PM on September 4, 2013 [2 favorites]
I hate that Evan Dorkin is not a household name, even in some comics circles.
Yeah. My theory is that because he is mostly a humourist, doing funny books, that people just underrate his talent and he falls between the two stools of grim 'n gritty superheroes and serious, dammit, art comix. Milk and Cheese is brilliant in how to milk (heh) a limited formula, Pirate Corp$/Hectic Planet was a series that explained the grinding misery of poverty brilliantly and did it through a rant about Nesquick, while Dork is as honest an exploration of the cartoonist's neuroses and personality flaws as anything Crumb ever did and a loss less sexist too.
But it's easy to ignore because it was all done through cheap jokes and three panel gag strips.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:13 AM on September 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
Yeah. My theory is that because he is mostly a humourist, doing funny books, that people just underrate his talent and he falls between the two stools of grim 'n gritty superheroes and serious, dammit, art comix. Milk and Cheese is brilliant in how to milk (heh) a limited formula, Pirate Corp$/Hectic Planet was a series that explained the grinding misery of poverty brilliantly and did it through a rant about Nesquick, while Dork is as honest an exploration of the cartoonist's neuroses and personality flaws as anything Crumb ever did and a loss less sexist too.
But it's easy to ignore because it was all done through cheap jokes and three panel gag strips.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:13 AM on September 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
I love the idea of a Beasts of Burden cartoon, Artw, because it's some of the best work ever done by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson. But only only ONLY if can look anywhere near as good as it does on the page.
posted by whuppy at 7:23 AM on September 5, 2013
posted by whuppy at 7:23 AM on September 5, 2013
Jill Thompson is a bit of an unsung hero of art as well - everything she touches is fantastic.
posted by Artw at 7:56 AM on September 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Artw at 7:56 AM on September 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
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