I had a blast drawing with this terrific group earlier this month in Austin Texas! This is the class poster I do for every workshop group. Atlanta, Boston and Chicago are sold out, and I only have about 16 spots available between my Phoenix and Minnesota workshops left… so if you want to be in one of the classes don’t wait around! Click here for the details. READ MORE
Ah… Monday. The start of a new week, with all the hopes and possibilities it represents! Sorry to bring it all crashing down in a cascade of idiocy, but it’s once again time for another step along the path of our look back at my work for MAD Magazine. This week features not one but two politically themed pieces, both with uncredited writers meaning they were written by the MAD staff, which appeared in MAD #547, Oct 2017. The first in this issue was a quick single panel that was part of “The Trumpalini Pages”, a recent offshoot of the by then fairly long running… READ MORE
I had to cancel my September Seattle workshop, but I have replaced it with one here in Minnesota! The workshops I do here take place only about 2 miles from the studio, and are unique in one way… they include an evening in my home and studio for the entire class! That’s right! The Lovely Anna and I host the class on the Friday night prior to the start of the workshop at our place. We’ll have a backyard cookout, adult beverages, Anna’s famous chocolate chip cookies and a tour of my studio looking at original art and other cool stuff, plus a look at… READ MORE
Here’s another of those famous moments in movie history that needs no preface, explanation, or context… it’s completely encapsulated in a single expression. The moment when Roy Scheider‘s “Chief Brody” first sees the shark in “Jaws” is part of movie history. In a rare departure from tradition, this original sketch is still available to buy! Jaws was released in 1975. I was nine years old, and this movie had a profound effect on me that I still remember to this day. Did I somehow see the film at only 9? I actually do not remember if I did or not. I doubt it. My parents… READ MORE
We interrupt our chronological slog through my work at MAD because it was at this moment in our timeline, June of 2017, that we finally learned who would be the new editor of MAD once it moved out to Burbank a mere 6 months later from that point. Back in March of that year it had been announced that MAD was finally following the rest of DC Comics from NYC out to Burbank, but since that announcement took place there was no word on who would be the new editor nor who would be on staff. I knew that no one from the NYC staff… READ MORE
It’s another “famous movie moment” caricature sketch! This week features Al Pacino going full-on cocaine rage in “Scarface” in the “Say hello to my little friend!” scene. This is another good example of how, in the moment and with the expression/emotion being shown by the subject, a lot of the usual likeness landmarks of the subject have to be ignored. Typically when you think of Al Pacino, you think of heavy, sleepy eyelids, a long nose, a small mouth and very high and sharp cheekbones. This moment requires emphasis on the mouth and the gritted teeth, the squinted eyes, and angled back head. All that… READ MORE
Here we go with another nauseating step on the chronological crawl through my work for MAD Magazine. This was the 99th issue my work appeared in, and fittingly enough this piece, a spoof the the prime time TV game show “The Wall”, was written by the same guy who wrote the very first piece I ever had printed in MAD… MAD‘s MADdest writer Dick DeBartolo! This first appeared in MAD #546, Aug 2017. This also ended up being the last time I did the art on a Dick De feature. Of all the writers I worked with at MAD, Desmond Devlin was far and away… READ MORE
Jerry Seinfeld‘s new movie “Unfrosted”, a fictional origin story of the “Pop-Tarts” breakfast pastry, was released for mass consumption today on Netflix. It happens that I did the art for another fake MAD cover prop ala “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, only this one was for “Unfrosted”. This, of course, did not necessarily mean the cover prop would actually be seen in the film. I’ve done a number of projects for film and TV that never got seen or used in the end product. However the cover does make a brief appearance in the film, with Melissa McCarthy‘s character reading an issue while working… READ MORE
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