I must be clairvoyant. Yesterday I posted a small, cropped image as a “sneak peek” from what will be my piece in the next issue of MAD. Hours later News-a-Rama posts the entire article! So, here’s a real sneak peek at MAD #536– “Home Renovations: HGTV vs. Real Life” written by Teresa Burns Parkhurst with art by moi (clicky any to embiggen). READ MORE
Here is another of the Doctors… Doctor number four Tom Baker! Again, these are pencil studies for my new, updated Doctor Who limited edition print which will debut at NYCC in October! As always, this sketch is available for purchase in the Studio Store. READ MORE
Here’s another sketch of one of the stars of season two of HBO’s “True Detective”, Rachel McAdams. As always, this drawing is available for purchase in the Studio Store! READ MORE
This is the closest I’ve gotten to doing an actual MAD cover… the cover of a special Superman issue from 2013. Here are the roughs and some close ups of the city painting that took forever. READ MORE
One of the highlights of the NCS Reuben Weekend was the cake we had made as part of the King Features 100th Anniversary celebration last Friday. Fans of the Food Network’s “Ace of Cakes” show know Duff Goldman and his team of pastry artists at Charm City Cakes. Since the 2015 Reuben Awards Weekend was in nearby Washington D.C., we decided to pay Charm City Cakes a visit in Baltimore with an eye on having a cake made honoring King Feature’s Centennial. What you see is what they came up with. Here’s my original design: It was an adventure in more ways than one. First,… READ MORE
Fun Facts: Loved fancy clothes, owned over 80 pairs of pants and was nicknamed “Elegant Arthur”; His sister Mary served as the First Lady because Arthur’s wife died; was a good banjo player and expert fisherman. READ MORE
These are a couple of follow up questions I’ve gotten via Twitter or email on the subject of selling prints of copyrighted characters: You mention that making limited edition prints is allowed. I’ve never heard that before. Do you have any source for that? I would not say it’s “allowed”. I’d say it is better defensible under a First Amendment defense because “fine art” is better recognized as a traditional vehicle for free speech. That advice was imparted to me by lawyers I consulted in a Chicago based firm specializing in Right of Publicity and Copyright issues when researching an article I was writing. They… READ MORE
If you are a fan of comics or cartooning, you should be a regular reader of Comic Riffs, a column/blog from the Washington Post written by “Writer-artist-recovering-syndicated-cartoonist” Michael Cavna. Michael posted an article today about my recently released cover art for the NCS Reuben Awards Weekend brochure, where he interviews some of the victims subjects of my caricatures for their reaction. Generally good this year, no threats of stoning or keying my car. In the article Micheal asks me if I had any trouble with any of the subjects. I did have to have a couple of tries at Jeff Keane. It’s interesting when you… READ MORE
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