This week’s sketch is musician, composer, songwriter and actor Tom Waits. Oh sure, he’s a multiple Grammy winner, was named one of Rolling Stone’s “Top 100 Songwriters of All Time” and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame… but to me he’ll always be the bug-eating R. M. Renfield in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”! READ MORE
It’s Monday! You know what that means… time for another revolting episode of our long and winding stroll down the road that is my work for MAD magazine. MAD #471, Nov 2006 marked the second time I had multiple pieces in the same issue, and the first time I contributed anything to “The Fundalini Pages”. Back in 2004 MAD added a feature in the front of the magazine called “The Fundalini Pages”. It appeared immediately after the “Letters and Tomatoes” section and consisted of usually four to six pages of short form features like comic strips, single panel gag cartoons, all text pieces, photo gags,… READ MORE
Q: I love your work but I really wish you would attach a name to your caricatures, they look so sweet but I’m not sure who some of your caricatures are depicting. I usually do identify who my caricatures are depicting when I post them online either in the post title or in the description copy. However I almost never write the name of the person being caricatured as part of the actual artwork. I figure if the viewer can’t figure it out then A) they are not familiar with the subject or B) it’s a bad caricature. Either way writing the name of the… READ MORE
This week’s sketch is a young Bruno Mars. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. This one is a little smaller than my usual sketches so it’s also a little cheaper! READ MORE
It’s Monday, and that means another tasty episode from our ongoing menu of my work for MAD Magazine. For this main course, all I can say is if you can’t stand the %$#&@ heat then get out of my %$#!*& kitchen! It’s back to “reality” TV with MAD’s parody of the foul-mouthed Gordon Ramsey and his chef competition show “Hell’s Kitchen”. This spoof was written by MAD’s MADdest Writer Dick DeBartolo and appeared in MAD #470, October 2006. I can’t remember if the deadline on this one was really short, but these “roughs” are about as rough as they ever got for me. I had… READ MORE
This week’s sketch is of Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith as “Jay and Silent Bob” from “Clerks” and several other films from Smith’s “View Askewniverse”. Original available in the studio store! READ MORE
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the Superman sequel the WB wants to forget ever happened! Too late! MAD did a spoof of “Superman Returns” in MAD #468, August 2006, written by MAD‘s MADdest Writer Dick DeBartolo, so it’s immortalized… just like “Bunny Lake is Missing”! I thought it was odd having Spider-Man narrate the first part of the parody, but it actually worked really well because the gag about his being a hipper and more relevant movie superhero aside, it allowed for an “outside looking in” explanation of the convoluted plot and how the movie attempted to be a direct sequel to 1980’s… READ MORE
Here’s to a happy and healthy 2022! I’m hoping this is the last year I have to draw a mask on Baby New Year. READ MORE
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