It's hard-sometimes I'll write something for Bongo and they really can't use 14 panels on a page when I'm writing for someone else to draw. I don't know if these are complete stories but they're stories, and I've always enjoyed when guys I like would give you eight pages of a complete story rather than just filling an issue. If you give me two pages, I will give you as much as I can on those two pages usually, unless it's not called for at all for the story. In all of my work I've always tried to tell a complete story, something that begins, that there's a reason for it-not just a bunch of characters talking or a cool visual with a script around it. With Milk & Cheese, it started with something that was not time-consuming and not a lot of work and just a lark and over time it became kind of, "How much stuff can I cram into these pages, to make people feel like they get extra pages out of the material?"
I grew up with guys like Kirby and Perez and John Byrne, who had a lot of stuff on the pages. I've been doing this for a while-since when people were putting more on the page. With the House of Fun stuff-like a lot of cartoonists I suffer from OCD, and I can fill a page. Almost every story lays out their parameters and what's going on. So you can pick up any issue of Beasts of Burden and you might not know who everyone is or what their motivations are but you can understand their story. With Beasts of Burden Jill and I are dealing with an extended storyline, but it's getting chopped up into all of these shorter chapters so I write every Beasts of Burden to work on its own as best as possible. Nothing's in my comfort zone-but I do like working with short stories a lot more than extended stories because I feel like it's a shorter drive: there are less chances for accidents. So is this really right in your comfort zone, contibuting to Dark Horse Presents? While a lot of creators might feel pinched in an eight-page story, you've been doing a lot with less for years-Milk and Cheese was almost never more than two pages. Therefore, mostly for humor's sake, I'll be presenting Dorkin's interview as a Q&A, just like the two other Dark Horse interviews (one with Matt Kindt and a second with Mike Baron & Steve Rude) we've done this week. As a consequence, we got exactly two questions into our interview in promotion of next week's House of Fun story in Dark Horse Presents #12 before we got so far afield of the topic that it only made sense to the two of us. Evan Dorkin, the creator of Milk & Cheese, Beasts of Burden (with Jill Thompson) and House of Fun, is a great conversationalist.
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