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February 12th, 2024 | Posted in General
Clicky to Embiggen… Time for another moronic Monday look back at my work for MAD magazine! This week we revisit one of the toughest jobs MAD ever dropped on me, and how it upset even The Lovely Anna! I’m talking about MAD‘s parody of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”, written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and first appearing in MAD #540, August 2016. I often get asked how long I was given to do the art on these movie and TV parodies. Since the art is the last step of the entire process we artists usually are up against the print deadline, but… READ MORE
February 7th, 2024 | Posted in General
In a rare break from tradition, the original art of this sketch is still available! We continue with our 70’s sitcom series with the cast of “Welcome Back Kotter”, Ron Palillo, John Travolta, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Robert Hegyes, John Sylvester White and Gabe Kaplan. This show was top of my list for favorite sitcoms when I was a kid. It aired in the late seventies when I was between 9 and 13, so the timing was perfect for me to understand the jokes and themes, but also made it just a little bit “adult” and therefore felt like I was getting away with watching something I… READ MORE
February 1st, 2024 | Posted in General
CLAPTRAP now has its own mini-website! Visit claptrapbook.com for a peek inside the book and to order a copy! READ MORE
December 4th, 2023 | Posted in General
Welcome good citizens to another Moronic Monday of Mayhem as we look back at my work for MAD Magazine! We are actually going to take another break from work for actual issues of the magazine with yet another side project I did at this point in our chronological crawl, being spring 2016. The MAD folks came up with an idea to do a series of parodies of children’s books set in the world of DC comics superheroes (spoiler: MAD is owned by DC!) They asked me to do the art for the first book, a spoof of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd‘s classic Goodnight… READ MORE
November 23rd, 2023 | Posted in General
I’ve been posting this sketch on Thanksgiving for about 15 years now. I’d do a new one but I’m too busy today eating one of his pals and spending time with family. Happy Thanksgiving! READ MORE
October 15th, 2023 | Posted in General
… to visit my “virtual Artist’s Alley” table and get one of my comic con type commissions. At 5 PM EDT tonight the table closes. I have a pretty long list and it will take a week or more to get them all done and shipped out, but drawn and shipped out they will be! Visit here for the different flavors of commissions available. Once the table is closed, that’s it! READ MORE
October 13th, 2023 | Posted in General
It’s Day two of my “Virtual NYCC Artist’s Alley” Table! Visit this link to get the kinds of commissions I usually only do live at comic cons, and at the same prices. From “Live style” caricatures all the way up to “Mock MAD Covers” in full color. The table closes at 5pm EDT on Sunday. My commission list is getting long, so get in soon! READ MORE
October 12th, 2023 | Posted in General
My “Virtual NYCC Artist’s Alley” table is now open! From now through the end of New York Comic Con, you can order the same kinds of commissions at the same prices I charge when I do a comic con. The table will close at 5pm EDT on Sunday! Visit here for the different kinds of commissions I have available. All online orders will be completed in the order in which they were placed, so the sooner you commission me to do a drawing for you, the sooner you will get it! READ MORE
