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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

Sketch o’the Week: Johnny Weissmuller!

January 29th, 2025 | Posted in General

I switched from my series of guys named Buster to a series of guys who played Tarzan! Last week was Buster Crabbe, this week is Johnny Weissmuller! The original of this one is still available in the Studio Store! READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week: Buster Crabbe!

January 23rd, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

We continue our series of caricatures of guys named “Buster” with old school film star Buster Crabbe, who portrayed many comic strip heros opn film including Tarzan, Buck Rogers, and of course Flash Gordon. Who could be next?Jazz musician Buster Bailey? Buster Brown (the blues singer not the comic strip character or the shoes)? Boxer Buster Douglas? U.S. Lt General Buster Glosson USAF (retired)? Actually I think we’ll stop at just these two. READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Buster Keaton!

January 15th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

This week’s sketch of silent film star Buster Keaton was inspired by a post from my pal Mark Evanier‘s sensational (and long running) blog News From ME, in which he waxed nostalgic about Saturday morning TV, Cheerios, and “The Buster Keaton Show”. As Mark talks about in his post, this show was shot (live) and aired in the early 1950’s on a local Los Angeles station. Reading Mark’s comments about the show and Keaton’s legacy, I realized I had never drawn the legendary comedian/filmmaker. This one was drawn primarily from the photo Mark posted in his article, which is of an older Keaton well past… READ MORE

MADness #134- The Tarantino Issue!

January 13th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Welcome to another moronic MAD Monday, as we creep quietly towards the end of MAD‘s run as a magazine of new content in our look back my the work for the magazine. We’ve reached MAD #9, Oct 2019, the issue where its existence as the magazine we all knew and loved for (at the time) 67 years came to an end. Yes, MAD continued (and continues) to print a new issue every two months. Yes, there was new content in the next few issues after this one. However, this was the last issue that was distributed on newsstands. Starting with the next issue, you could… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Ronnie James Dio!

January 8th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

SotW is back for 2025 (although I did this one at the end of 2024). I’m going back to both my “Classic Rock” series and my hard rock roots with this week’s sketch of the late heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio. As a kid I was a real metalhead, listening to bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC and the like. I liked Rainbow with Dio on lead vocals, but it was when he took over as the vocalist for Black Sabbath that I became a big fan. It was always hard to believe that big voice came out of that little guy (Dio… READ MORE

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