I hope the news about Ed Piskor isn't true. We used to be friends. I criticized Ed online re: the podcast in the past, and over the recent the DMs. I thought it was irresponsible, bad behavior and called it out. I e-mailed Ed twice, asking him to step back, to hate me but live(1) I did not criticize Ed to pile on, it wasn't out of jealousy of his success, or to monetize the situation as some are doing or play politics. Obviously my posts hurt Ed, he singled me out in his note. I hurt Ed. I am responsible for that hurt even if I stand by my criticism (2).

Today won't end. Goodbye, MAD Magazine. As a youngster I was a huge fan of the 70's era, as a young adult I rediscovered the 50's comics, as an old nerd I somehow became a contributor (often working w/@colorkitten) for the last decade +. Getting the e-mail today was crushing. Grateful to @dantelfer for our gig during the L.A. era. Grateful to everyone for so many opportunities in NYC. It was a dream, a blast and a decent paycheck. MAD still sells more copies than most comics, but obviously that isn't enough with overhead and quarterly bean counting.

If you think I -- and people at DHC over the years -- haven't done all possible to resolved this, think again. I've pleaded, cajoled, listened, walked from the book, walked back, brought in a new artist on side stories. There's no dirt. No fall out. Also no new pgs/movement. ON a positive note, the collaboration between me, Ben Dewey, Nate Piekos and DHC on the Wise Dogs material has been the complete opposite experience. And we're doing more. But until things get smoothed out, the main series storyline will not move forward, as it hasn't in years.

I always used to say I'd never quit comics but I also said I'd never do variant covers and I caved on that one. I'm getting too old to live this marginally, especially when I have a collaborator comicblocking the most profitable project I have going. I'm just tired of all this. I should have just gotten an agent and tried to do animation stuff full-time when I had the chance. We had better credits than a lot of full-time animation people. But I was fearful and resistant to change. I should have left SLG a decade earlier, but I was loyal and fearful etc.

The good news: We got the okay to finally talk about a big secret project that @colorkitten and I worked on and are extremely proud of. It's one of the best things we've ever done. Oh, but here's the bad news: We can talk about it now because it's dead and will never happen. (1) So, back in 2011, we were hired by Warner Bros to write a bible/pitch for an animated series called:

KAMANDI, THE LAST BOY ON EARTH
Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer
On the Road in “The World That May Be!”

An adventure/comedy, aimed at pitching it to the Adult Swim. (2)