There’s a roughness or deliberate looseness to some of the cartooning, but most is polished and continues that way.Įxtras are provided, but with the exceptions listed by Dorkin in the introduction, Dork largely reprints the comic of the same name produced from 1992, which began as scattershot humour in the course of which Dorkin also railed at the world. This frenetic virtuosity all precedes the first helping of single tier strips.
That’s followed by six single pages, starting with a nutty stream of consciousness piece, then depictions of ketchup mishaps, a commentary about celebrity aid to Africa, a dark gag about three wishes, a sarcastic set of Comic Industry Trading Cards, and the heartwarming ‘Life’s Great Rewards’. Following a two page illustrated introduction, Dork’s opening pages swerve from a faked sitcom about a family of serial killers to a Fisher Price theatre version of Catcher in the Rye, then to an autobiographical anecdote about giving change to the homeless. The 272 pages are packed, dozens of them featuring five to seven single tier gag strips on the most random topics, but crucially almost all funny. If a single graphic novel is all you can have in the house during self-isolation Dork has to rank high on the list of desirable items, simply on the basis of density alone.
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