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May 11th, 2010 | Posted in General
Click for a closer look… Today the interwebby will be full of tributes and remembrances of Frank Frazetta, who passed away at the age of 82 yesterday… ones that will be much more eloquent and personal than anything I could say (including this one by my pal Ed Steckley). I never met the man, but I am like so many who were in awe of and inspired by the work of this master artist. As a young reader of the Robert E. Howard “Conan” stories (and the pastiches of Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp that were camouflaged among Howard’s actual tales), the cover… READ MORE
May 10th, 2010 | Posted in General
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW-z76F9SYQ[/youtube] Grrrrreat…. “Jimmy Jamz” of Super Experts USA reveals exactly how to get your work into MAD Magazine. It’s almost the exact path I took to break in… except I sent them work from about 6th grade on. Now the work will be even more scarce for everybody at MAD. Thanks a LOT, Jimmy Jamz!! :mad::mad: READ MORE
May 7th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I was sent a link to this story from MAD editor John Ficarra earlier this week. The story is from a blog called “Scouting NY“, where a gentlemen named Nick Carr recounts tales of some of the hidden gems and interesting locations he’s stumbled across in the course of his work… scouting locations in New York City for films. This particular story is about 225 Lafayette Street, currently condos on the corner of Spring Street in Soho, but back in the 1950’s it was an office building with one very MAD tenant: Entertaining Comics (E.C.) run by a young Bill Gaines, who had been forced… READ MORE
April 23rd, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The above image is the official teaser for the new animated MAD show coming this fall to the Cartoon Network (image courtesy D.C. Universe: The Source) READ MORE
April 19th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The blog TV Series Finale happened upon my and Mark Evanier‘s posts of that gorgeous Jack Davis TV Guide spread, and the blog’s senior editor Trevor Kimball did us one better. The scan we linked to wasn’t the best of that image (and according to them was even missing a page!), so he dragged out his collected copy and did a proper scan of the entire illustration. Click on the image above for a much better look at this gem. Thanks Trevor! Also, visit Trevor’s post to see some additional black and white illustrations Jack did in the same issue. READ MORE
April 19th, 2010 | Posted in General
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ao63n5QkEE[/youtube] Jack Davis is not only an alum of the University of Georgia, but he’s been drawing the Georgia “Bulldawg” for them for a long, long time. The above video is from the university’s Bulldawg Illustrated, which no doubt has been frequently illustrated by Jack. The video is a gem not just because they talk with Jack, but it shows him banging out a drawing of the Bulldawg at his drawing table overlooking the river. Check out the way he holds his pencil! We are also treated to seeing him ink with a brush and do a quick color wash job on it. Great thanks… READ MORE
April 8th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I’m pretty busy (read: SWAMPED) in the studio right now prior to another trip to another theme park to open up another caricature operation for the season… this time in Springfield, Massachusetts at Six Flags New England. On the return from the last trip I found that The Lovely Anna had bought a copy of 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die (Crammed into 864 Actual Pages) for me. This is another “Barnes and Noble” exclusive book like MAD About the Movies: The Director’s Cut printed in black and white and at a smaller size than the magazine pages. I was surprised to… READ MORE
March 15th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I was the subject of a short piece on the weekend edition of the FOX9 newscast here in the Twins Cities: It was flattering to be contacted by the station and have them ask if I’d do this. It’s too bad that MAD hadn’t announced it’s switch to bimonthly before they did the final editing. It’s also unfortunate that my braces make it sound like I have a worse lisp than The Music Man’s Winthrop Paroo. Some of the quotes I give seem odd because the question the reporter asked me doesn’t proceed them. For example, the last comment I make about getting all my… READ MORE
