Archive for December 29th, 2014
December 29th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness features my artwork from Dick DeBarolo‘s parody of “Hell’s Kitchen” in MAD #470, October 2006. Below are the pencil roughs, final colored art and (bizarrely) the third and forth pages inked and set up in the layout with text in place. I cannot remember why I did that with pages three and four… must have been for a presentation or something demonstrating the pre-color artwork in place. Anyway, clicky any to embiggen: Final splash page art The pencil roughs… Inked with copy, page 3 and 4 spread Page 3 final Page 4 final Panel three features “Pearls Before Swine” cartoonist Stephan… READ MORE
October 29th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Clicky to embiggen… The last of our Halloween themed sketches- Elsa Lanchester as “the Bride” from the 1935 film “Bride of Frankenstein”. Done using various pens and markers. READ MORE
September 29th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
Not too many people remember this, but MAD was actually a bit ahead of it’s time when it came to internet content. Way back in the summer/fall of 2000, before blogger and Facebook and “Web 2.0”, MAD spent several months posting original content on its website, then called madmag.com. Called the “MADness of the Week”, these were specially written and drawn features that were sometimes “rollover” images or illustrations that had pop up gags, sometimes static images with text and later included flash-based shorts with limited animation. MAD had their freelancers produce the work, both writing and art, and then would produce the features and… READ MORE
July 29th, 2014 | Posted in General
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBsTUjd910[/youtube] I get asked quite a bit about the legality of selling the Limited Edition prints I have been offering the last few years. Having just got back from Comic-Con, the issue of selling images featuring characters you do not have the copyrights to is an obviously major one. Walking through the exhibit floor, you see booth after booth selling products based on or featuring characters they do not own the rights to. Professional comic book artists do private commissions of Superman, Spider-man or whatever character they are asked to draw. Sort of professional artists sell posters or prints of Batgirl or the Walking Dead… READ MORE
June 29th, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Love your book, it helps me a great deal when dealing with my studio works. Especially the ladies’ facial structure as I seem to have problems with (that)… issues with questions such as ” can you draw me slimmer?” , “can you draw me younger?” etc. How do you deal with such requests? A: Ah, the eternal bane of the live caricaturist… “Can’t you draw me skinny?” “Don’t draw my buck teeth!” “Don’t draw my wrinkles!”, etc. etc. Why people with low self image or vanity issues would want to get a caricature drawn is beyond me, but live caricaturists get these kinds of… READ MORE
May 29th, 2014 | Posted in General
I know I promised a Reubens wrap-up today but I am swamped trying to catch up with freelance work I have put aside for the last week or two. Tomorrow, I promise. READ MORE
April 29th, 2014 | Posted in News
Congratulations to Renee Faundo on being chosen to recieve the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship in 2014! From the National Cartoonists Society Foundation Website: The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) is happy to announce the winner of the 2014 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship – Renee Faundo. Renee is a Character Animation major at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. She was chosen from over 60 applicants for the award, which includes a $5,000 scholarship and a trip to the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award Weekend in San Diego in May. The scholarship applicants submitted eight examples of their work along with an entry… READ MORE
January 29th, 2014 | Posted in General
It would look like this… Clicky to embiggen… READ MORE
