Welcome to Eltingville Pilot Sketches on the Back of Dork #8, Pg 1 (Patreon)

Early character sketches and random malarkey when I was working on the Eltingville pilot. Some proto-Iron Jaw and Ward doodling. Two characters mentioned didn't appear in the pilot but were in the bible --  Sal was going to be Joe the retailers' nemesis, who owned the other comic shop in Eltingville. Gary the Dirtbag was a local weirdo, the type that exclusively hangs out with kids and talks shit. He also is a collectibles mercenary who uses kids and toy store contacts to hoard toys and comics for the resale market. He's got a G.I. Joe fetish and tells lies about being in the military. His name comes from my friend Paul, he knew someone they called Gary the Scumbag. Gary the Scumbag wasn't anything like Gary the Dirtbag, being a kid among kids, but he must've been something to be referred to as Gary the Scumbag. I wanted to call Gary the Scumbag as opposed to the Dirtbag, but Eltingville was the first Adult Swim pilot and they weren't sure where they were going with things then so, we worked PG-13 or thereabouts. I always wondered what Welcome to Eltingville would have looked and sounded like if the pilot was made after the Swim had surer footing about content and how Adult they'd get. Or vulgar and obnoxious, I mean, adult usually means sophomoric, really. Which would have worked in Eltingville's favor, to be honest