Illustration Throwback Thursday
November 25th, 2021 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I hope all who celebrate today are getting a chance to do so with their family, which is really what this holiday is all about. We’ll have a full household today, and that’s what I am thankful for. For a few years I did an annual “Thanksgiving” illustration for Sports Illustrated Kids which was a kind of roast of some of the notable stories and people of the year in sports. These are the images. Enjoy! READ MORE
September 23rd, 2021 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Back in the early 2000’s I did a lot of work for Scholastic, mostly spot illustrations for their various publications, and occasionally covers. This was the cover of one of their school magazines I did in late 2007, and the story was about how online social sites were going to be a a new major part of political candidate’s campaigns in 2008. Little did we know. Gotta love the “MySpace” appearance. In 2007 it was the biggest social media platform in the world, and Facebook was a just started minor player. Again, little did we know. READ MORE
September 9th, 2021 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Cartoon Network had an animated show called “MAD” that aired from 2010-2013. It was a kind of animated sketch comedy show that was only 11 minutes long, and consisted of all sorts of different styles of animation from flash based to traditional to claymation, etc. I contributed to a number of episodes, usually working on some kind of TV or movie “mash-up”… like this one! This segment mashed up “The Big Bang Theory” with “Twilight” in a bit called “The Big Fang Theory”. The work I did consisted of simplified caricatures of the different actors in character and sometimes some extras. Here are the character… READ MORE
September 2nd, 2021 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
If you do freelance illustration long enough and for enough different clients, you eventually come across some piece you did where you cannot remember the client or the purpose of the illustration! This is one of those. I know I did it in 2010 because that’s the date on the digital file, but I cannot remember who or what it was for. I dimly remember it being for some kind of conservative political group’s internal media use. Anyway it was supposed to be an illustration of then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, depicting him as a big spender. I did a number of rough concept… READ MORE
August 26th, 2021 | Posted in Freelancing
Well actually this is yet another of the roughly gajillion “workplace” poster I did for the Marlin Company from 2001 to early 2017. I think the message here was supposed to be about teamwork. READ MORE
August 19th, 2021 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I did this illustration of Alfred E. Neuman as a “spy” in 2012 for the Warner Bros Consumer Products department, which is turn was for the International Spy Museum in Washington DC. They made T-shirts and other products out of it that were sold exclusively at the museum. Apparently the Spy Museum has a licensing deal with MAD, presumably mainly for the Spy vs. Spy characters, but they also decided to do some Alfred merch. READ MORE
August 12th, 2021 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Since we were strolling down memory lane with my sketch of Al & Peg Bundy yesterday, I thought we’d take a look back as some of the “Married…with Children” comic book work I did way back in the early 90’s. The above was a promo ad for the title, and here’s a bunch of covers. Some I pencilled only, some I also inked, and one I did the color and all. NOW switched from doing a regular numbered series to a series of multiple issue “miniseries” that were built around a themed storyline. The cover above was the first in a series of four where… READ MORE
August 5th, 2021 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I haven’t posted one of these in a long while, so today’s “Illustration Throwback Thursday” is a look at one of the “workplace posters” I did for many years for a client called “The Marlin Company”. These were 17″ x 17″ illustrations that generally illustrated some message about teamwork, reducing stress at work, workplace safety, or some other employment issue. I happen to have the pencil sketch I sent them for approval also: I did one of these every month for about 15 years. I don’t have an exact count but I am sure I did over 150 of them. This one was done in… READ MORE
