Nerd Inferno collecting essential work from cartoonist Evan Dorkin is coming in 2026 from Dark Horse. One to watch out for next year for sure!
EVAN DORKIN’S DAIRY DUO, THE WORST FANS THAT EVER LIVED, AND THE REST OF HIS ABSURDITIES CONJOIN IN “NERD INFERNO: THE ESSENTIAL EVAN DORKIN”
Collecting Milk and Cheese, The Eltingville Club, and Dork for the first time together in one volume of fun
Dark Horse Comics presents Nerd Inferno: The Essential Evan Dorkin, a new omnibus collecting Evan Dorkin’s Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Award-winning creator-owned comics, Milk and Cheese, The Eltingville Club, and Dork. Written and illustrated by Dorkin, these satirical comics will be collected for the first time in this omnibus edition, which will also feature a brand-new cover by Dorkin and Sarah Dyer. It’s going to sell out and you will cry if you don’t get a copy, so get to it, kids (this message was approved by Evan’s therapist).
About Milk and Cheese:
A carton of hate. A wedge of spite. A comic book of idiotic genius. A comic book of idiotic genius. Dating all the way back to an appearance in Greed magazine in 1988, these gin-fueled lactic loose cannons have delighted and horrified comics fans the world over!
About The Eltingville Club:
Take-no-prisoners trivia-offs. Pill-fueled Twilight Zone marathons. Fan interventions. Here is the ultimate word on the fugly side of fandom, collecting every Eltingville story from Dork, House of Fun, and The Eltingville Club #1–#2.
About Dork:
Comprising years of black humor stories about a living voodoo doll, a serial killer sitcom, truly real live sex, a disco skinhead, an urbane devil puppet, classic works of literature acted out by Fisher-Price toys, and more absurdity.
Nerd Inferno: The Essential Evan Dorkin (paperback, 656 pages, 6.625” x 10.1875”) will be available in bookstores on April 21, 2026 and in comic shops on April 22, 2026. It is now available for pre-order from Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $34.99.
Praise for Evan Dorkin:
“Evan’s calcium-rich creations are guaranteed to spread lactose intolerance everywhere.”—David Mazzucchelli (Asterios Polyp, Batman: Year One)
“Milk and Cheese is the cream of the comic crop, a butter-bomb of hilarity, and one other lactose-based metaphor.” —Patton Oswalt (Ratatouille, Minor Threats)
“Dorkin is a powerful man, and this is powerful stuff—you buy this book, you’ll black out, probably wake up in prison. But don’t let that stop you.”—Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim, Snotgirl)
”In the ’90s, Evan Dorkin’s comics, Milk and Cheese and Dork, approached humor from all sides, from riffing on pop-culture tropes to haunting explorations of Dorkin’s own demons.”—Paste Magazine
“Dorkin’s dense, sweaty world of Eltingville remains the spot-on love letter/guilty confession/death threat to geek fandom it was when it first appeared in the nineties.”—Jackson Publick (The Venture Bros.)
“A motherf—ing comics-making machine.”—Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets)
