I had been posting these sketches a week after subscribers to my newsletter had seen them, but I’m going to catch up and post them on the same week. I figure if you are not subscribed to my FREE weekly newsletter “The Ink Stained Wretch” by now you don’t care that these sketches are a week old when I post them here or not. Anyway here’s Bill Murray as “Nick the Lounge Singer” READ MORE
I’m doing some of the SNL characters notably missing from that piece I did for New York magazine as SotW subjects. This week it’s John Belushi as Samurai Futaba! READ MORE
Here’s another of our “Famous SNL characters/skits” series. Will Ferrell from the infamous “More Cowbell” sketch! READ MORE
Starting a news series… famous Saturday Night Live characters/skits. Here’s Gilda Radner as Roseanne Rosannadanna. READ MORE
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We continue our series of caricatures of guys named “Buster” with old school film star Buster Crabbe, who portrayed many comic strip heros opn film including Tarzan, Buck Rogers, and of course Flash Gordon. Who could be next?Jazz musician Buster Bailey? Buster Brown (the blues singer not the comic strip character or the shoes)? Boxer Buster Douglas? U.S. Lt General Buster Glosson USAF (retired)? Actually I think we’ll stop at just these two. READ MORE
This week’s sketch of silent film star Buster Keaton was inspired by a post from my pal Mark Evanier‘s sensational (and long running) blog News From ME, in which he waxed nostalgic about Saturday morning TV, Cheerios, and “The Buster Keaton Show”. As Mark talks about in his post, this show was shot (live) and aired in the early 1950’s on a local Los Angeles station. Reading Mark’s comments about the show and Keaton’s legacy, I realized I had never drawn the legendary comedian/filmmaker. This one was drawn primarily from the photo Mark posted in his article, which is of an older Keaton well past… READ MORE
SotW is back for 2025 (although I did this one at the end of 2024). I’m going back to both my “Classic Rock” series and my hard rock roots with this week’s sketch of the late heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio. As a kid I was a real metalhead, listening to bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC and the like. I liked Rainbow with Dio on lead vocals, but it was when he took over as the vocalist for Black Sabbath that I became a big fan. It was always hard to believe that big voice came out of that little guy (Dio… READ MORE
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