THE ELTINGVILLE CLUB (Evan Dorkin)

[Jack]

En avril, l’artiste Evan Dorkin (Beast of Burden) mettra fin à l’aventure The Eltingville Club avec un diptyque publié par Dark Horse. Cette série atypique, parue pendant les 20 dernières années sous diverses formes, raconte l’histoire d’un club de fans poussés à l’extrême.

Pour cette dernière histoire, Dorkin s’inspire des menaces de morts reçues par Dan Vado (Extreme Justice) et Dan Slott, et des menaces de viols à l’encontre de Anita Sarkeesian, pour démontrer l’absurdité du comportement de certains “fans”.

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“Eltingvillle” isn’t specifically about my time working in a shop, although the second issue does deal heavily with the retailing end of things. I’m a life-long fan, I worked in a comic shop for close to six years, and I make funnybooks for a living, so, yeah, obviously my own experiences form the basis for “Eltingville.” It’s not a straightforward autobiographical strip, but my own life is in there; I shoplifted trading cards, the characters are based on me and my friends from my teenage years, we fought like crazy, although not as crazy as what happens in the comics. It’s a mix of truth and exaggeration, memory and research, looking through Previews and wanting to throw up.

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Liens
Le site de l’éditeur: darkhorse.com
Le site de l’auteur: houseoffun.com

[Jim_Laine (Jean-Marc Lainé)]

Pour cette dernière histoire, Dorkin s’inspire des menaces de morts reçues par Dan Vado (Extreme Justice) et Dan Slott, et des menaces de viols à l’encontre de Anita Sarkeesia, pour démontrer l’absurdité du comportement de certains “fans”.

Sarkeesian.
(c’est corrigé)
Et l’affaire est consternante, c’est incroyable de voir ça…
Les gens sont fous.

Jim

[Jack]

Basically, the Eltingville Club finally breaks up for good after twenty years of disbanding and getting back together. There’s a lot of tension between Bill, the club’s founder, and the other members, and then Bill gets a job at the local comic shop and it goes to his head and things fall apart and get kind of brutal. Besides the final break-up it’s also a satire about horrible comic shops and their owners. I worked in comic retail for close to six years, I was a manager at the original Jim Hanley’s Universe on Staten Island, which was and is a quality shop. The retailer in Eltingville, Joe Gargagliano, is an over-the-top Frankenstein monster made up of all the worst comic shop people I’ve dealt with as a fan, retailer and professional, along with some comic shop horror story elements from other people. There’s a lot of crazy shit going on in Joe’s store that people won’t believe is based on real life. I had to leave some things out because they were too ridiculous or didn’t work for the story, like the comic shop that was a cocaine front – and probably the most profitable comic shop in the history of the direct market.

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[Jack]

[quote]The Eltingville Club #1
Story by Evan Dorkin
Art by Evan Dorkin
Cover by Evan Dorkin
Publisher Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, April 23rd, 2014
After twenty years, three Eisner Awards, and a smattering of hate mail, the Eltingville Comic Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Role-Playing Club is finally breaking up. When Bill’s dream job in a comic shop turns into a nightmare for the club, more than bridges and membership cards are burned in a fiery, fan-tastic finale![/quote]

Source: www.comicbookresources.com