{"id":56,"date":"2010-04-15T08:05:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2010-04-15T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:25:35","slug":"famous-fan-mail-2-evan-dorkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/famous-fan-mail-2-evan-dorkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Fan Mail #2 Evan Dorkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing <em>what <\/em>comics they were reading. Here&#8217;s a look at &#8220;Famous Fanmail&#8221;!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" 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 target=\"_blank\" 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>! Before all that, though, his imagination was captured by <em>Rom<\/em>, a comic book title published by Marvel Comics based on a robotic toy made by Parker Brothers. He got a letter published in <em>Rom <\/em>#41 (cover date &#8211; April 1983), which you can read below.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/rom-41-letters.jpg\" alt=\"Rom letters page with Evan Dorkin\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think my favorite part is the use of the word &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/furshlugginer\">furshlugginer<\/a>&#8220;.<\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not be surprised to learn that most people in the comic business grew up reading comic books. However, you might be interested in knowing what comics they were reading. Here&#8217;s a look at &#8220;Famous Fanmail&#8221;! Evan Dorkin, the creator of those dairy products gone bad, Milk &#038; Cheese, is a comics writer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-fanmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}