Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:53:47 -0400 
From: Jason Michael Borlinghaus <jbb9+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re:Milk and Chees

>In article <14SEP92.10212039@wums.wustl.edu> w95_cook@wums.wustl.edu writes:
>>In a previous article, ntprlr@eskimo.celestial.com (NightProwler) wrote:
>>>Has anyone other than myself run accross this hillarious title?  I saw a
>>>couple of 1-3 page stories about these two (I forget the name of the
>>>artist...something to do with Predator I think).
>>> 
>>>Anyone know if anything further is going to be done with these "two dairy
>>>products gone bad"?
>>>-- 
>>
>>So far, Slave Labor has produced three "one-shot" issues of this title:
>>Milk & Cheese #1, Milk & Cheese Other Number One, and Milk & Cheese Third
>>Number One.  
>>
>>The artist is Evan Dorkin (I think that's spelled correctly), and yes, they
>>are absolutely hysterical.  The titles appear to be selling pretty well for
>>a Slave Labor book, so I would expect to keep seeing these one-shots pop
>>up from time to time.  I doubt anything regular will appear, however.
> 
>The "strips" originally appeared in Deadline. The Slave Labor books are
>collections.
> 
>According to Ev, he's taking a break from Milk and Cheese. I think he just
>doesn't want to drive it into the ground. 
> 
>If you like his work, you might also check out Pirate Corp$ from Slave Labor.
>It helps if you're an aging punk or rude boy, but it's good stuff. There's
>a new issue due out in September. Slave Labor has all of the PC back issues
>available through mail order. If you like Milk and Cheese then check out
>PC #2 (I think) that has Milk and Cheese Storm the Bastille on the cover.
> 
>Milk and Cheese also made an appearance in a recent Slave Labor Tales (?)
>where they visited a comic book convention. Not to be missed if you consider
>yourself an anti-fanboy.
> 
>If you are a Dairy Bum, you might want to order the M&C T-shirts and beer
>mugs available from Slave Labor. I can attest that these shirts really
>attract attention if you live in a dairy state like Minnesota or Wisconsin.
>The latest T-shirt is even topical with Milk and Cheese talking about 
>family values.
> 
>Finally, if you really like Ev's work, see about buying up back issues of
>Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Yes, I know it was from Marvel, but this
>book was much better than it had any right to be. Remember that early issues
>had a squid character and later issues have Death working at a Pretzel and
>Cheese fast food restaurant.
> 
>Future work from Dorkin includes something called Instant Piano. There's
>an interview with him in the latest Comic Journal. (The one with the 
>McFarlane art on the cover.)

Hey, doesn't anyone out there remember Dorkin's Pirate Corps. A now
defunct yet really enjoyable series which came out prior to Milk and
Cheese, under the insignia of both Eclipse and Slave Labor. Dorkin humor
run amok in an intergalactic setting following a group of self-styled
pirates. Chitlin (I believe was his name), a four armed, green skinned
alien led the team after leaving the New Jersey Devil's hockey team (an
ulktra-violent sport in the future). Chitlin teams up with Harley (a
human), Blue (an alien ex-member of the Mad Planets rock band), T.A.N.K.
a self-thinking defense robot, and several other characters who I can't
recall names for. The 4 issues that came out with Eclipse's backing had
them racing to find the secret of life with every other mercenary group
chasing them across the galaxy. The Slave Labor issues were pretty much
stories unto themselves.

---- Moose