The entire world mourned the passing of the Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Say what you will about the monarchy, she was a model of dignity and decorum. I’ve seen a lot of caricatures of her in the last week, most of her as the diminutive, elderly queen she was in the last years of her life. I wanted to draw a young Elizabeth. READ MORE
This week’s subject was suggested by my youngest daughter, Gabrielle. At 28, she’s a well known DJ in the Orlando area, and if you attend any big comic cons like New York Comic Con, C2E2, Emerald City Con and many more you’ve probably seen her rockin’ the joint as “Atomic Blonde”. You can follow her via her website or on Twitter or Instagram. She knows music, and Joseph Quinn‘s metalhead character Eddie Munson from the latest season of “Stranger Things” is a favorite of her’s… and of many fans of the show. READ MORE
Original sketch available in the Studio Store I know what you are thinking… who the %$%#% is Richard Benjamin Harrison?!? Well, you’d have to be familiar with the TV show “Pawn Stars” to recognize him. He was the patriarch of the family that owns the titular pawn shop from the show, and was affectionately (or maybe not so affectionately) known and “The Old Man”. He passed away in 2018. I ran across this sketch in an old sketchbook recently and thought I’d share it here thus copping out on a new sketch this week! Fa fa fa! READ MORE
Oh, SANDY! I was sad to hear of the passing of the charming Olivia Newton-John at the too-early age of 73 a week or so ago. My sister Tami was a HUGE fan of the movie “Grease” back in the late 70’s so I saw a lot of Olivia through osmosis back in grade school. How could you not love that movie? Olivia was a wonderful talent and of course did a lot more than just “Grease”, but that’s the part I’ll always remember her in. It occurred to me after I had three daughters that the MAD parody of “Grease” got it right and the ending… READ MORE
A week or so ago my pal Joey Paskevicius posted this picture he had found on Facebook of the amazing Giancarlo Esposito striking an awesome “Gus Fring” pose while holding a MAD sketchcover commission I had done featuring him a few years ago: I did that sketchcover during my first ever “virtual” artists alley event back in 2020 for a gentleman named Tim Dunakin. That’s Tim looking on in the background. Tim brought that cover sketch to a recent comic con to get Giancarlo to sign in, and this picture was taken by Giancarlo’s handlers and posted on Giancarlo’s facebook page. Not only is this… READ MORE
This is going to be the last of my “horror movie icons” sketches I think. The series has run its course and while there are many other horror movie greats worthy of being caricatured, it’s time to move on. I couldn’t end this any other way than to draw the legendary Lon Chaney in his signature role as Erik from the 1925 silent film “The Phantom of the Opera”. Chaney was famous for doing his own makeup, and the effect he achieved with the Phantom caused audience members to scream and faint during the famous “unmasking” scene. That may be one of the most horrifying moments in… READ MORE
Original available in the Studio Store You knew this one was coming! I had to draw the late Nichelle Nichols this week after her passing a few days ago. I was never a huge “Trekkie” but I did enjoy the original series as well as “The Next Generation” and many of the films and other shows that came from the Star Trek universe. You can’t be a comic book geek like me and not appreciate how great Star Trek was. As “Lieutenant Nyota Uhura”, Nichelle Nichols was an integral and much beloved part of that universe. She broke ground as one of the first black… READ MORE
HEEEEEEERE’S JOHNNY! We continue our horror film series with Shelley Duvall in her iconic role as Wendy Torrence in Stanley Kubrick‘s masterpiece “The Shining”. I considered drawing Shelley as her character from an even scarier film, “Olive Oil” in “Popeye”, but went with her Wendy. Jokes aside, I think “Popeye” gets a bad rap. It’s actually a great film that just ran out of money and steam at the end. I consider “The Shining” the perfect example of how different film and books are as storytelling mediums. Stephen King, who wrote the novel that the film is based on, famously hates Kubrick’s movie. Despite being a HUGE fan of… READ MORE
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