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Madame Pus-saud’s Anti-Vax Museum

December 17th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Here’s a look at one of the two pieces I did for MAD #11. A bit of a departure from my usual line and color style… READ MORE

Dropping 12/18: MAD #11!

December 16th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Yes, they are still publishing it. Arriving in subscribers mailboxes already, and in comic book shops everywhere Wednesday! Cover (Mark Summers) Star Wars Funnies (Kerry Callen) Christmas Greedings* (Al Jaffee, Bob Clarke) A MAD Look at New Year’s Resolutions (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Carrie Strachan) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) Meanwhile (Ian Boothby, Pia Guerra) The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2019 Boeing’s Max Stupidity (Bob Merlotti, Ed Steckley) Amazon’s HQ (Sheryl Zohn, Gideon Kendall) Deporable Migrant Detention Camps (David DeGrand, Michael Gambriel) Admitting to Admission’s Fraud (Ellis Rosen, Raven Juergensen) Micheal McConnell’s Bill Killing (Desmond Devlin, Kerry Callen) Game of Thrones Coffee Cup (Amanda Stellberg, Laurie Greasley)… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag Empty?

December 15th, 2019 | Posted in Mailbag

Looks like it’s that time again… no questions to answer in the mailbag. I actually only have to post this maybe once or twice a year, and only because many of the questions I get are repeats of ones I have answered more than once in the past (I’ve had this feature running for over thirteen years, and this is the 615th “mailbag” post) or of the “please show me how to crosshatch” variety that are impossible to answer in a few paragraphs. It’s entirely possible that people have run out of questions. There are only so many questions people might have about freelancing, illustration, MAD,… READ MORE

Another MAD #11 Sneak Peek!

December 14th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Here’s a couple of more close ups of my art from the “Democratic MADvent Calendar” that MAD posted on their Instagram feed. Written by Amanda Stellberg. MAD #11 on sales in comic books shops on Dec 18th. READ MORE

Workshop Warmup: Ahnuld!

December 13th, 2019 | Posted in General

One more workshop warmup for the week: Arnold Schwarzenegger! READ MORE

Workshop Warmup: Gordon Ramsey!

December 12th, 2019 | Posted in General

Yet another warmup celebrity sketch from my workshop this past weekend: Gordon Ramsey! A spot in one of my workshops makes a great Christmas gift to that special caricaturist in your life. Not many left right now though… only one in NYC, three in Dublin and quite a few left in Vienna. I’ll be adding a few more U.S. workshops in the last quarter of 2020 sometime after the New Year. READ MORE

Orlando Workshop Warmup!

December 10th, 2019 | Posted in General

I wrapped up my Orlando workshop Sunday but I’m still here visiting with my youngest daughter The Effervescent Gabrielle for her birthday, so the rest of the week I’ll be posting the ‘warm up’ sketches the class and I did over the weekend. Here’s one of them… disgraced comedy legend Bill Cosby. These “workshop warmups” are 3 or 4 sketches we do in the morning to get loose for the rest of the day. Someone in the class suggests a subject, I do an image search for a good reference, and then project the image up on the big screen with a blank area to… READ MORE