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Illustration Throwback Thursday #55: Library Journal!

October 11th, 2018 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday

I did this cover for the Library Journal in 2009. The cover story was about how library budgets were getting smaller and smaller and making survival harder. My colored line style. READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Stevie Nicks!

October 10th, 2018 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

This week’s SotW is Fleetwood Mac musical legend Stevie Nicks. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE

Digital MAD Moving to Magzter

October 10th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine

For those of you who hated the MAD iPad app for getting the digital version of the magazine, good news! MAD is discontinuing the app and moving its digital subscriptions over to Magzter. Here are all the details: Q: What happened to my MAD in my MAD app? A: We have listened to our fans through tweets, emails, Facebook, and millions of two complaints via Google+ – the experience of reading issues on the MAD app left much to be desired. We want our fans who like to read the magazine digitally to have as enjoyable and effortless reading experience as those who read the… READ MORE

Sudden Opening in Phoenix Workshop!

October 9th, 2018 | Posted in General

I’ve had a cancellation for my Phoenix workshop and no one on the waitlist is still available, so I have put it back on the active registration list. Grab it while it lasts! READ MORE

MAD Sketch Covers at NYCC!

October 9th, 2018 | Posted in General

I’m getting home from New York today where The Lovely Anna and I did New York Comic Con. The show was crazy busy, especially with commissions. One of the things I do are “sketch covers”. For those not familiar with these, they are comics that have a heavyweight blank paper cover over top of the printed cover. This blank cover usually has the logo of the comic on it, so artists can draw their own “cover” on it. It’s a popular thing at comic book conventions. Anyway, MAD has done two of these sketch covers, one was issue #539. I have a pile of those… READ MORE

On the Stands: MAD #4!

October 8th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine

In subscribers mailboxes for a week or so already, on newsstands everywhere tomorrow and in comic book shops and digital this week! Cover (Gary Pullin) ToC Art (Ron English) Rejected Monster Cereals (Jeff Kruse, Dean Macadam) Sad New Ways to Feel Good About Yourself (Teresa Burns Parkhurst) Sven, Golly, It’s… Svengoolie (Ian Boothby, Tom Richmond) A Slasher Movie Scene We’d Like to See (David DeGrand) Melania Trump Paper Doll (Sina Grace) Cthasper the Friendly Elder God (Peter-John Byrnes, Nick “The Hat” Gucker) Stink Lines Through Art History (Maria Bamford, Scott Marvel Cassidy) The Ghastlygun Tinies (Matt Cohen, Marc Palm) A MAD Look at Dia de… READ MORE

New 2019 Workshops: Switzerland X2!!

October 5th, 2018 | Posted in General

I will be returning to Seengen, Switzerland in 2019 to conduct not one but TWO workshops on back to back weekends, again all organized through the Cartoon-Schule, a Swiss cartooning art school. The workshops will be on June 28-30th and July 5-7th, held again at the scenic Eichberg Hotel in Seengen, about an hour outside of Zurich. These workshops are organized by the Cartoon-Schule, and they do all the booking, registration, determine the costs and logistics, etc. I conduct them just like my other workshops, same basic itinerary and structure. They are done in English. I am told they already have enough students to fill… READ MORE

A Svengoolie Shout Out!

October 5th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine

https://youtu.be/8huPKrGp2C0 The cat (or bat, as this case may be) is out of the bag that I did the artwork on a parody (sort of) of TV horror host Svengoolie and his show in issue #4. However back in July before I had that job “in the can” (that’s showbiz talk for “completed”) one of the show’s… uh… henchmen Kevin stopped by my booth at San Diego Comic Con and had me do a live-style caricature of Svengoolie. They shared that drawing on a recent show in their mail segment, video link above. Svengoolie also gives a shout out to my pal Scott Shaw! who… READ MORE

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