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Sketch o’the Week- Laraine Newman!

March 12th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I’m still doing my “Saturday Night Live” character series and am working on the original cast. Since this past Saturday was “International Women’s Day” I thought I’d wrap up the last of the ladies of the first “Not Ready for Prime Time Players” with the wonderful Laraine Newman! It was tough to decide what character to draw her doing, as she didn’t really have a single, signature character that she played multiple times that was instantly identifiable with her. Reportedly this was in part because Laraine resisted doing the same characters over and over, preferring to create new and different ones. “Connie Conehead” was one… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week: Jane Curtin!

March 5th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

MEBS! Unacceptable! This week’s SNL sketch subject is Jane Curtin as Prymaat Conehead! Subscribe to my free weekly Substack newsletter for more Coneheads fun, more art, and more MAD shenanigans. READ MORE

CLAPTRAP Original Art Available!

March 1st, 2025 | Posted in General

It’s been a little over a year since CLAPTRAP was released, and I have officially healed from the trauma of doing that much work for one project. The many late nights and countless hours on the drawing board makes it a little hard to want to part with the tangible results of all that work. It’s the same with most any big jobs for me. For a while after I finish a major project I like to have that work in the flat files just as a reminder that I did accomplish something with all the effort. Eventually that need passes and it just becomes… READ MORE

Bonus Sketch o’the Week: Bill Murray!

February 28th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I had been posting these sketches a week after subscribers to my newsletter had seen them, but I’m going to catch up and post them on the same week. I figure if you are not subscribed to my FREE weekly newsletter “The Ink Stained Wretch” by now you don’t care that these sketches are a week old when I post them here or not. Anyway here’s Bill Murray as “Nick the Lounge Singer” READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week: John Belushi!

February 26th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I’m doing some of the SNL characters notably missing from that piece I did for New York magazine as SotW subjects. This week it’s John Belushi as Samurai Futaba! READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week: Will Ferrell!

February 19th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Here’s another of our “Famous SNL characters/skits” series. Will Ferrell from the infamous “More Cowbell” sketch! READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week: Gilda Radner!

February 19th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Starting a news series… famous Saturday Night Live characters/skits. Here’s Gilda Radner as Roseanne Rosannadanna. READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Bob Marley!

February 6th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Yeah, mon. READ MORE

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