{"id":53,"date":"2010-04-21T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2010-04-21T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:23:41","slug":"before-they-were-stars-3-evan-dorkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/before-they-were-stars-3-evan-dorkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Before They Were Stars #3 Evan Dorkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don&#8217;t even start at Marvel or DC. Here&#8217;s a look at some work by comic book creators &#8230; before they were stars.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseoffun.com\/\">Evan Dorkin<\/a>, the creator of those dairy products gone bad, <strong>Milk &#038; Cheese<\/strong>, is a comics writer and artist known for his quirky, indy work. He was the creative force behind <a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\">Marvel Comics<\/a>&#8216; <em>Bill &#038; Ted <\/em>ongoing series from the early 1990s and was one of the writers on the TV show <em>Space Ghost: Coast to Coast<\/em>! But in 1982, at the age of 17, Marvel Comics published his first work in the letters page of <em>Rom <\/em>#37 (cover date &#8211; December 1982). Evan had crafted some fan art sending well-wishes to <strong>Avalanche<\/strong>, who had recently broken both his arms in an encounter with the <strong>Hulk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/rom-37-dorkin.jpg\" alt=\"Evan Dorkin fan art\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22evan+dorkin%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Evan Dorkin<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=milk+cheese&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Milk &#038; Cheese<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22rom%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Rom<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22Hulk%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Hulk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don&#8217;t even start at Marvel or DC. Here&#8217;s a look at some work by comic book creators &#8230; before they were stars. Evan Dorkin, the creator of those dairy products gone bad, Milk &#038; Cheese, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-they-were-comic-book-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}