New Evan Dorkin

Dark Horse will serialize new work by Evan Dorkin in three issues of its Dark Horse Presents anthology beginning with March's Issue 10.

Called House of Fun, the comic will serve as a venue for Dorkin to revisit some of his older concepts, including Murder Family, The Eltingville Comic Book, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Role-Playing Club, and, yes, Milk and Cheese. Each eight-page installment will be colored by his wife and frequent collaborator Sarah Dyer.

"The idea was to bring back as many of my old characters and concepts from Milk and Cheese and Dork as possible, grouping it all under the new House of Fun name," Dorkin explained on the publisher's website. "I decided not to use Dork as a catchall title for these comics. I got sick of the name a long time ago and this relaunch felt a good opportunity to finally retire it. [...] This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time now. The last issue of Dork came out in 2006 and it's been even longer since I worked on an Eltingville or Murder Family strip. I'm excited to be working on my own stuff again, I'm having a lot of fun making these comics, and I hope folks will have fun reading them. If not they can go suck an egg."

Dark Horse Presents #10 goes on sale March 21.

Evan Dorkin brings House of Fun to Dark Horse Presents by Kevin Melrose, November 30, 2011

Andy Kubert on Watchmen prequel project

Evidence for DC Comics' long-rumored Watchmen prequels keeps mounting, with apparent unofficial confirmation that Andy Kubert will be drawing one of four miniseries.

Bleeding Cool contends it's been "informed quite conclusively from a reliable source" at the publisher that the artist is among the A-list talent involved in the secretive project, which reportedly will use key characters from the seminal 1986 miniseries by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

Other previously mentioned creators include Darwyn Cooke, J. Michael Straczynski, J.G. Jones, John Higgins and even Gibbons himself.

Murmurs of DC's desire for a Watchmen follow-up gained steam in 2010 after the departure of President Paul Levitz, believed to be the last in-house obstacle to using the Moore-Gibbons characters. The writer seemed to confirm as much last year when he revealed the publisher finally had offered to return the rights to the property -- copyright and royalty issues form the roots of his legendary feud with DC -- in exchange for a concession: that Moore "agree to some dopey prequels and sequels." He refused.

Then-newly minted Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee said at the time that DC "would only revisit these iconic characters if the creative vision of any proposed new stories matched the quality set by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons nearly 25 years ago, and our first discussion on any of this would naturally be with the creators themselves."

As recently as August, Gibbons addressed perennial rumors of a sequel and the possibility of the characters being transplanted into the DC Universe, telling Comic Book Resources, "It's not something that I'd personally like to see happen. [...] What I would say is, intrinsic to the whole idea of Watchmen is that they existed in a world that was the way it was because of their existence. And I think to transplant them into another world actually removes a huge part of what is the essence of Watchmen."

Andy Kubert reportedly confirmed for DC’s Watchmen prequels by Kevin Melrose, December 1, 2011