Newsarama Interview on Eltingville, Beasts of Burden

[evandorkin]

I spoke to Chris Arrant at Newsarama about wrapping up The Eltingville Club, how my tendency towards clutter affects the scripts for Beasts of Burden and other topics that don't exactly shake the heavens of North American pop culture (of course, as you may well remember, I'm huge in the tiny Republic of Togoland). You can read the interview here if

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[ext_249709]

Hey, Evan will there be a collection of all the Eltingville stories? While an oversized hardcover like the Milk & Cheese one would be great, if you only have good enough copies of the artwork to make a standard-size trade, that would still satisfy me.

Also, I read that you wrote a series bible for Eltingville. Did any of that material make its way into the new miniseries?

Finally, did the distribution rights to the Welcome to Eltingville pilot revert to you, or did the contract you signed with Cartoon Network/[adult swim] give them the rights to it in perpetuity even if it never passed the pilot stage.

[evandorkin]

John -

An Eltingville collection will be in the offing, and it will be over-sized to match the Milk and Cheese and Beasts of Burden collections. Fingers crossed, we'll have a second Beasts book next year, a Dork/HOF collection asap, and I'll have an actual in-print library of most of my creator-owned stuff save Hectic Planet and some odds and ends. I'm trying to figure out what to do about the odds and ends.

The series bible material and the pilot episode are owned by the Adult Swim/Cartoon Network. None of that material was consciously used in anything else, I don't think I've looked at the bible since before the pilot aired, I own the pre-existing Eltingville characters from the comics and have the rights to exploit the property if anyone wanted to give it another go. If I wanted to I could buy the pilot back from them, if I had a hell of a lot of money and was insane. I do not and am not and would not.

If things work out for us we'll have some design work for the pilot in the Eltingville trade. Time will tell.

[ext_249709]

Cool. I take it the Eltingville collection will be out before the end of the year?

[ext_249709]

Also, what exactly are the odds and ends you speak of?