evan dorkin hates my guts. it's not something personal, he just hates everybody. his contempt towards his readers has become a trademark of milk and cheese, his most sucssesful creation to date. luckily enough he has some redeeming qualities too, which are being a brilliant artist and writer, and delivering some of the funniest dialouge ever put into litle circles. the milk and cheese comic books are colections of short episodes starring a carton of milk and a piece of cheese. both with a real atitude problem. the stories are almost allways the same. the two dairy products find something to get pissed about, than they dish around some verbal abuse, and than they hurt and maim a lot of pepole. it somehow never wears thin, and gets funnier the more times you read it.

if you are looking for the talent minus the anger, look for "kid blastoff" it is a superhero parody first published in a disney magazine. this time written by evan and his life/buisness/creative partner sarah dyer. this was the funniest thing i read this year, and certain lines haunted me for weeks making me burst into hysterical fits of laughter. one of the best books i read in a long long time. click on the preety picture to your left to get to evan and sarah's site. it's great.
the first time i opened stray bullets i was in no way ready for what's inside. while i heard really good things about the book, and read some preety strange books in my days, this was something completely new. inside was an utterlly stomach turning sick (and i mean really sick) story done with so much talent it hurts your eyeballs. when i put down the book i was completely in awe. i read it 3 times in a row and still was amazed. david lapham, a really great artist simply decided one day to also write. while this happens a lot in the comic industry, the transition is almost never as successful. he created a universe of characters which he says will one day come together (each issue is a self contained story starring diffrent characters) while i didn't read the whole thing yet (i couldn't find all the issues) the ones i read all have the same anyting can happen feeling. there is a point in every story in which lapham delivers the storytelling equivalant of punching you in the gut. while it sounds unpleasant, anyone who can do this to you deserves some prizes (which he got), and a shitload of money (which i hope he gets).
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