July 16th, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
It’s crazy, but seven years ago almost exactly TO THE DAY (July 15th, 2013) I posted a look back at this parody of the TV Show “Glee” from MAD #506 after the untimely death of show star Cory Montieth. Here we are again on the sad occasion of the death of yet another young cast member from the show, Naya Rivera. That makes three including Mark Salling who died in 2018. So, in honor of Ms. Rivera, here is the complete “Glee” parody, written by Arnie Kogen, along with the pencil sketches. Incidentally, three of my kids make cameo appearances on the splash page! READ MORE
July 9th, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I do illustration work for superstar ventriloquist Jeff Dunham (who still hasn’t invited me over to take a drive in his ’89 Burton Batmobile, not that I’m expecting that). Back in 2013 I did a bunch of art for a game app that Jeff produced called “Achmed’s Bombsweeper”, which was basically Minesweeper but with Jeff’s Achmed character trying to build a giant Robo-Achmed and the player trying to stop him. This was my design/illustration of the robot Achmed. The app is now defunct so don’t bother looking for it… you’ll just have to take my word for it. READ MORE
July 2nd, 2020 | Posted in Freelancing
This was a job I did for the School Library Journal back in 2008, illustrating a story about popular teen science fiction literature from years ago compared to modern work. I happened to run across the concept roughs and much of the process stuff as well so I thought it might be interesting to see that: Above: Two initial thumbnail concepts… one a full page and one a “cross gutter” type layout. Often a magazine job needs to be placed within an already set layout, but in this case they allowed me flexibility in that regard. They liked the cross gutter layout, but wanted to… READ MORE
February 20th, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Remember CD-ROM games? I doubt it. They used to be a big deal. Now the mobile phones we use are 100x as powerful as the desktop computers that ran these things back in the 90’s. I’ve said many times you never know where your work might end up being used, and sometimes the most unlikely of projects will come your way when you freelance. If someone had said to me that I’d be “illustrating” a series of CD-ROM games I would have scoffed… after all even in the 90’s games like Myst and The 7th Guest were the standard for graphics… lavish and realistic images… READ MORE
January 30th, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Here’s another of about 200 poster illustrations I did for The Marlin Co. over the course of 16 years. This one was from 2012. READ MORE
January 23rd, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Here’s a full page and two spot illustrations I did for GQ magazine back in 2016. It was a story about famous “brothers” both fictional and real life. Above was the full pager with The Manning and Affleck brothers plus the three actors who played the fictional brothers in the TV “Empire”. Below are spots with the Gronkowski brothers and the Koch brothers. These illustrations were actually never used. I was told GQ had a couple of illustrators do different takes on the art and then they decided to go with photos instead. I got paid full rate rather than a kill fee, however. READ MORE
January 9th, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
This was done (I think) for the now defunct Fade In magazine back in 2004 for a story about the various politicians who were possible running mates for John Kerry in the 2004 election. If I remember right the story focused on Hollywood supporters or connection to various democrats, which made sense because Fade In was a movie industry publication. There were a bunch of spot illustrations with the different candidates and their famous supporters. That art is lost but I did find this one pencil rough for a spot with Dennis Kuchinich and actor James Cromwell: READ MORE
December 19th, 2019 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Here’s another “Marlin Workplace Poster” illustration from way back… READ MORE
