Dorkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved with his family to Staten Island when he was 13 years old.

)[2] Dorkin ended up attending New York University Tisch School of the Arts, but eventually switched his passion from animation to comics.

[3] He wrote and produced an animated television pilot for Adult Swim titled Welcome to Eltingville, based on his own characters.

[4] Dorkin and Dyer worked as freelance writers on the 2006 English-language version of the anime Crayon Shin-chan, where they wrote material for the show's first six episodes.

[14] Dorkin is named by Ed Piskor in his suicide note as one of the "Internet Bullies" that drove him to take his own life.