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Happy New Year!

January 1st, 2025 | Posted in General

Don’t let this sourpuss fool you… here’s to a bright and shiny 2025! READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week: Jerry Garcia!

December 18th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I was definitely not driving a train high on cocaine when I did this week’s sketch, but it might have turned out better if I had been. We return to our “classic rock” series theme this week with a sketch of the late “Grateful Dead” frontman. I’m not sure how grateful he is about it, but he’s most definitely dead. I have to admit I have never really listened to “Grateful Dead”, although I have enough friends who love them to know it is “Grateful Dead” not “THE Grateful Dead”. I try to avoid the all-too-often pessimist’s sneering dismissal of pop culture phenomenons that they… READ MORE

New 2025 Workshops Scheduled!

December 13th, 2024 | Posted in General

Just in time for Christmas, I’ve scheduled two new workshops in 2025… Toronto and Seattle! There are still plenty of spots available in Las Vegas also, but only two left in Los Angeles. These workshops are unique experiences and make a great gift to the hard-to-buy-for artist in your life. Visit here for more info on what my workshops are all about! READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Cristin Milioti!

December 4th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Holy Huge Eyeballs, Batman! This week’s caricature sketch subject is the doll-like acting dynamo that was one of the main reasons “The Penguin” tv series was so good… Cristin Milioti! It’s no secret I am a big fan of Batman. While I can appreciate most takes on the character and his rogues gallery of villains (except 1997’s “Batman and Robin”, that was a gigantic piece of steaming garbage) I thought “The Penguin” TV series might be the best depiction of any of Batman’s nemeses to date. The Penguin is an essentially silly character. Attempts to make him formidable or truly villainous outside of a cartoon exaggeration… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Anthony Hopkins!

November 27th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I was on vacation last week in Orlando with no access to a scanner, so I did my SotW entirely digitally. Here’s Sir Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter from “The Silence of the Lambs”. READ MORE

MADness #132: Aquaman!

November 25th, 2024 | Posted in General

What? Another Monday?!? As if the end of the weekend was not bad enough, here comes another step on the rapidly dwindling road that was my work for MAD Magazine! This week was look back as what for a number of years seemed like it would be the final full movie parody to appear in MAD. I’m talking about MAD’s spoof of “Aquaman” from MAD #7 (June 2019) written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin. The reason this seemed this one might be the curtain call for MAD movie parodies is that it was at this point in the MAD timeline, February of 2019, that… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Brad Pitt 2!

November 20th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Brad Pitt makes his second appearance in our “Famous Movie Moments” series as Tyler Durden from the 1999 film “Fight Club”. This sketch is all about exaggerating body posture and physicality. In sharing last week’s sketch of Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty from “Blade Runner”, I mentioned that film was the one I absolutely insisted we include in CLAPTRAP. “Fight Club” was the other one I really wanted to do, but it just missed the cut. It’s one of those movies that actually would be tricky to spoof, because it is already a satire of consumerism and toxic masculinity. But, figuring that stuff out that… READ MORE

MADness #132- Mary Poppins!

November 18th, 2024 | Posted in General

Monday AGAIN?? Here we go with yet another step on the crooked path of mediocrity that was my work for MAD Magazine. This week we look back at a kinda-sorta movie parody (but not really) from MAD #6, written by Ian Boothby. This piece was done right as “Mary Poppins Returns” starring Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda was released. It’s not a parody of the movie but an original story using the characters. That does not count as an actual movie parody of course. It’s a political feature. I happen to have full scans of the final inks of this splash because I had the… READ MORE