The first of my 2025 workshops is all set! I’ll be in Tampa in January, skipping the snow and cold in Minnesota to draw with up to 12 artists for a full weekend! Click here for the details and to join in! READ MORE
Our “Famous Movie Moment” this week is both a notorious and infamous one. It’s Sharon Stone in the “leg crossing” interrogation scene in “Basic Instinct”, where it’s obvious Ms. Stone is not wearing any underwear when she switches her crossed legs. It’s notorious as being the (allegedly) most paused moment in home video history. It’s infamous because Stone claims she was asked to remove her underwear because of some lighting issues, and she only did it with the assurance that the shot would be dark/shadowy enough that no nudity would be visible. Director Paul Verhoeven claims he told her exactly what the shot going to… READ MORE
I’ve had several sudden cancellations for my workshop here in Minnesota taking place Sept 7-8 in nearby Eagan. Three spots are now open for a workshop that has been sold out for months. These are the only workshop spots still available for 2024. If you were ever considering doing one of these and are nearby or don’t mind traveling, the workshops I have here in Minnesota are by far the best ones to take, if for no other reason than the extra night of fun and camaraderie I host on the Friday night before the workshop weekend. The hotel I do the workshop in is… READ MORE
It’s back to our “Famous Movie Moments” series with this sketch of Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya from “The Princess Bride” at the moment he finally comes face to face with the “six-fingered man”. “Hallo! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Trying to think up some of these iconic moments in film to do caricature sketches from I realized I did a lot of such moments in Desmond Devlin and my book of movies parodies, CLAPTRAP. This one included! Only Des wrote the parody of “Princess Bride” as a musical (i.e. “sing to the tune of…”. Here’s the page… READ MORE
Time for another moronic Monday edition of MADness, and another step on our way to the precipice that ends our look back at my work for MAD magazine. This week we have a gander at the second of the two “MAD 20″ pieces I did for MAD #549 (Feb 2018). It was another of the “MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2017″, and called for me to imitate the look of the video game graphics of “Clash of Clans”. Here’s the pencil: Not much to add here. It was a pretty straightforward job. I had to render Trump and Kim Jong-Un in the… READ MORE
We have to take a quick break from our “Memorable Movie Moments” series to pay tribute to a terrific actor who just passed away… the great Donald Sutherland. When I read of his passing I knew I was going to have to draw him… but in which role? He’s done so many memorable ones over the years. I was leaning toward his “Hawkeye” Pierce from the film version of M*A*S*H*, but settled for his turn as Sgt. Oddball from “Kelly’s Heroes”. I drew him a number of times in the MAD parodies of the “Hunger Games” films as well. Here’s a few of them: READ MORE
Time again for another stop on the long and winding road that was my work for MAD Magazine. We have arrived at the penultimate “New York” MAD issue, #549 (Feb 2018), which happened to be the year end issue contain the “MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2017”. I did the art on two of the “MAD 20” pieces for this issue. We’ll look at the second one next week, but this was the first of them. No writer is credited, meaning it was written by the editorial staff. This is of course a spoof of the movie poster for “Wet Hot American… READ MORE
It’s another “Famous Movie Moment” with this week’s sketch. I have been too heavy on the macho moments featuring tough guys, guns, gangsters, or babes in bikinis with knives, so this one is all about romance! Here’s Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh from the closing scene of “Gone with the Wind”. Usually only the smartest, strongest, best looking, and best smelling of the readers of my weekly newsletter “The Ink Stained Wretch” (i.e. paid subscribers) get to see the full length video of me doing my “Sketch o’the Week” in real time. Not this week, though! I’m sharing that video for everyone on YouTube! If… READ MORE
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