Evan Dorkin, the creator of Milk & Cheese, Beasts of Burden (with Jill Thompson) and House of Fun, is a great conversationalist.Personally, I’m a chatty guy. 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.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.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. So is this really right in your comfort zone, contibuting to Dark Horse Presents?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.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. 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. It’s just good versus evil. Almost every story lays out their parameters and what’s going on.
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