Here’s a look at the pencils/pencil roughs (most of them) and the finished art pages from MAD‘s parody of “Batman Begins” back in MAD #455, June 2005… written by Desmond Devlin. READ MORE
Q: I was asked to spend an evening drawing caricatures at a party, but chickened out. I believe the key to success is practice, practice, practice and I just wasn’t ready for it, but I was curious to know, when and what was your first ‘live’ caricature session and how did it go? A: I don’t remember the exact date but the first time I drew live caricatures was in May of 1985 at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL. I was contracted by a company called Fasen Arts to draw there for the summer. Although I had no experience doing live caricature I… READ MORE
With the news earlier this year that Penthouse is ceasing their print magazine, I thought I’d post some of the illustrations I’ve done for them over the years. Some time ago I did a post showing many of the Dave Navarro spot illustrations I did for his monthly column, you can see those here. This was my first job for them, a “timeline” of a typical office guy’s St. Patrick’s Day: READ MORE
No doubt I’ll get a few arguments that Max Schreck did not “officially”‘ play Dracula in the 1922 film “Nosferatu”, since the character was called Count Orlock, and all the other names were also changed from the Bram Stoker story. However, it’s widely accepted that this was an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, so much so that Schreck is in many lists of the greatest screen Draculas ever. The courts seemed to think it was Dracula as well, as they ruled against the filmmakers in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the Stoker estate and ordered all copies of the film destroyed. Like a good vampire,… READ MORE
I doubt this news will ruin anyone’s weekend (except mine) but due to an impossible deadline job that just got dropped on me I will not be able to man my booth at Wizard World Minneapolis this weekend as planned. In fact, you won’t see much in the way of any blog posts from me for a while either. Sleeping will also be a forgotten luxury. READ MORE
Here’s a look at a couple of the final penciled pages from the latest issue of MAD’s parody of “The Force Awakens, and the final art for each page. These are not roughs but the final pencils on the boards prior to inking and coloring. READ MORE
Q: In the early nineties, for the first time MAD magazine started making MAD movie and television satires of animations (e.g “Batman: The Animated Series”, “The Lion King”). This continued through the decade with a couple of TV shows and a stack of Disney movies, but as soon as the nineties were over, so were the animation satires. So, not counting the occasional crossover article like “Star Shrek”, why is it that the magazine started, and then stopped, doing satires of animated films and TV shows? And, except for the South Park movie, why did MAD never do proper satires of any of the ‘adult’… READ MORE
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