April 21st, 2016 | Posted in Tales from the Theme Park
Last Sunday’s mailbag reminded me of this story. When you work a theme park caricature stand you meet a lot of people. Every once and awhile I’ll get told I look like some celebrity. In the 80’s when I was just a kid I heard John Travolta quite a bit. Jon Cryer from “16 Candles” a lot as well. Once I got into my late 20’s early 30’s the one I got all the time was Paul Rieser. In fact, here’s an example of one of the more forgettable ones: I’m in my mid 30’s drawing at Valleyfair one summer day when two really good… READ MORE
April 20th, 2016 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
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April 19th, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As promised, here’s a little sneak peek at the monster 9 pager I drew in the lastest issue of MAD, written by David Richards. Whaddya mean you want to read all the jokes and gags in the word boxes? What do you think this is, a furshlugginer library? Go out and buy the issue, clod! READ MORE
April 18th, 2016 | Posted in General
In subscribers mailboxes, comic book shops and via digital now, and on news stands tomorrow!!: Cover (Tom Richmond) Letters and Tomatoes (Ed.) The Fundalini Pages (Jeff Kruse, John Martz, Matt Lassen, Tom Hart, Rick Tulka, Mike Leow, Evan Waite, Kevin Pope, Kenny Keil, Stephen Silver, Bob Staake, Shannon Wheeler, Dick Debartolo, Ward Sutton, P.C. Vey, Josh Mecouch, Anton Emdin) The Trumpalini Pages (Artist: Hermann Mejia) Star Bores: The Snores Awaken (David Richards, Tom Richmond) A MAD Look at Man Caves (Sergio Aragonés, colorist: Jim Campbell) Chilling Thoughts (Desmond Devlin, Jonathan Edwards) Obama’s Gray Hairs (Desmond Devlin, Sam Sisco) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) The Darker… READ MORE
April 17th, 2016 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: During your time as a live caricaturist, have you ever drawn a person who looked like a famous person? And did you use this similarity in your caricature? A: I honestly can’t think of any specific examples of that, but I’m sure it happened. My standard gag would have been a pin/button on their chest saying “President of the So-and-So Look Alike Society”, or in the case of them looking like a teen heartthrob I’d have some pimply girl or boy in the background looking lovestruck at them with a “I <3 So-and-So” T-shirt. High brow humor, that. What would happen more often is… READ MORE
April 15th, 2016 | Posted in News
… jealous? Well you should be. Lucky guy that I am, a few days ago I received an advanced copy of the hardcover of Eddie Pittman‘s Red’s Planet graphic novel. I guess that blurb I wrote for the back paid off! Red’s Planet is set to be released next week, and while I do not recommend very many books or comics work as a rule I am heartily recommending this one. No spoilers here, but Eddie has created something really wonderful with Red’s Planet. The story is fun, funny and heartwarming. The characters instantly grab you (s0metime literally). The artwork is extraordinary. The entire package… READ MORE
April 14th, 2016 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
With the New York primary coming up Tuesday, here’s a look back at my 1999 parody of 1998’s “Godzilla” for Cracked magazine, complete with a recognizable cameo at the end: Incidentally the original title of that parody was “God-Awful”, which makes more sense with the intro copy. However I actually only did the first 4 pages as a sample to show MAD, and they were not impressed. When I then showed it to Cracked they wanted to print it, so I had to finish it up. I came up with the Hillary Clinton joke and changed the title to “God-Hilla”. READ MORE
April 13th, 2016 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series
Here’s the last of the “Million Dollar Quartet”, Carl Perkins! As always, the original of this sketch is for sale in the Studio Store! READ MORE
