As the artist shared: “Bogart Creek carries on the tradition of The Far Side - dark and absurd gallows humor for nervous underdogs and lovers of rather outdated pop culture.” Derek added: “I’m pretty neurotic and always feel like there are lions in the room eyeing me, licking their lips, waiting to pounce. Bogart Creek is my attempt to draw those lions in a way that makes them less menacing. A kind of exposure therapy, but with cartoons.”

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A fox taking a selfie while a lumberjack is caught in a bear trap, illustrating dark humor in one-panel comics.

In an interview withBored Panda, Derek shared what has changed since we last shared his works.

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Derek also shared what a typical day is like for him when he’s working on a new comic.He wrote: “There’s ‘The Ideal Day’, and ‘The Busy Work Day’:The Ideal Day: mornings are the best time to come up with new ideas, so I get up, put on music, make some black coffee, grab some 8x10 printer paper and a ballpoint pen, and draw. Assuming I’m happy with any of the concepts, I move to Adobe Fresco on my iPad Pro and draw the final art. Then I pop it into InDesign where I have everything templated (this makes it easier for when I output work for my books) and export it for social media.The Busy Work Day: get up, draw for 30 minutes, then move on to paying work. Around 10pm I grab the iPad and work on the polished art until my eyes burn.”

Derek also shared what a typical day is like for him when he’s working on a new comic.

He wrote: “There’s ‘The Ideal Day’, and ‘The Busy Work Day’:

The Ideal Day: mornings are the best time to come up with new ideas, so I get up, put on music, make some black coffee, grab some 8x10 printer paper and a ballpoint pen, and draw. Assuming I’m happy with any of the concepts, I move to Adobe Fresco on my iPad Pro and draw the final art. Then I pop it into InDesign where I have everything templated (this makes it easier for when I output work for my books) and export it for social media.

The Busy Work Day: get up, draw for 30 minutes, then move on to paying work. Around 10pm I grab the iPad and work on the polished art until my eyes burn.”

Hilarious one-panel comic by Derek Evernden: brains in a box fearing the outside world.

Hilarious one-panel comic by Derek Evernden featuring humorous winter dialogue between a couple on a couch.

As for deleted ideas, Derek shared why he scraps a lot of his comic ideas.“I scrap at least 70% of my comics. Just because I find something funny doesn’t make it so. As Stephen King said in his book On Writing, ‘Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.’ Meaning when you create your art, you entertain yourself. But when you edit your art, you’re doing it with the audience in mind. I absolutely cannot predict what the audience will find funny (even after all these years) - so I ask them. Again and again. Each time I have 9 decent cartoons, I send out a survey to about 15 friends - a fairly diverse group with a diverse sense of humor. It may sound unromantic, but I’m always surprised to see my favourite jokes bomb while the ones I thought were weak hit the mark. I post the jokes that get the best responses (unless there’s the odd joke that I just love despite what the ‘critics’ say).”

As for deleted ideas, Derek shared why he scraps a lot of his comic ideas.

“I scrap at least 70% of my comics. Just because I find something funny doesn’t make it so. As Stephen King said in his book On Writing, ‘Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.’ Meaning when you create your art, you entertain yourself. But when you edit your art, you’re doing it with the audience in mind. I absolutely cannot predict what the audience will find funny (even after all these years) - so I ask them. Again and again. Each time I have 9 decent cartoons, I send out a survey to about 15 friends - a fairly diverse group with a diverse sense of humor. It may sound unromantic, but I’m always surprised to see my favourite jokes bomb while the ones I thought were weak hit the mark. I post the jokes that get the best responses (unless there’s the odd joke that I just love despite what the ‘critics’ say).”

Flying pig with bat wings in a tornado near a barn, comic by Derek Evernden with dark humor.

Elephant in a cake bursts out holding surprise sign, two soldiers react humorously.

We were wondering if there was a time when the readers’ responses really touched Derek, to which he responded: “There isn’t any gut-wrenching story or moment where my heart grew three sizes - but I always feel good when people say they laughed or loved a cartoon. To make someone I’ve never met laugh is pretty amazing. And even though I’m not great about corresponding, I do appreciate it when people take the time to tell me. The best cases are where someone’s been having a bad day and they say ‘Thanks, I needed that’ (hopefully without sarcasm).”

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Cartoon by Derek Evernden: surgeons react to a fire-breathing patient on the operating table.

Lastly, Derek added: “I know it’s trite, but please support your favorite artists any way you can - whether it’s just sharing their work, or paying a few bucks a month for their Patreon or Substack feed, or buying their books and other merch. Very few cartoonists live off their work, but they’d sure like to!”

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