Sketch O’The Week
August 24th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
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
August 17th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
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
August 10th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
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
August 3rd, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
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
July 27th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
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
July 20th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Who’s laughing now? Hopefully you are at this chin-tasitc caricature of the groovy Bruce Campbell in his role as Ash from the “Evil Dead” film series. I have to admit I have only ever seen the first “Evil Dead” and that was a LOOOOONG time ago, but Mr. Campbell is a pop culture phenomenon from the horror movie world and so many people love the “Evil Dead” movies I figured he’d be a good subject. READ MORE
July 13th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I’ve always been a big fan of Stephen King‘s books, and while some of the adaptations for movies and TV haven’t hit the mark there are a few that are really good. The 1976 film “Carrie” might be the best of them in terms of both being faithful to the book and being a great film. I’ve drawn Sissy Spacek in her classic bloody, wide-eyed pose as a background cameo in a few movie spoofs, but never as a full blown sketch. Certainly one of the great horror movie moments of all time. READ MORE
July 6th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Mother? It’s another classic horror icon subject for this week’s sketch… Anthony Perkins in his role as Norman Bates from the Alfred Hitchcock 1960 masterpiece “Psycho”! There are a lot of interesting facts about this film, here’s I few I learned about when researching the movie for the parody Desmond Devlin and I are doing in our CLAPTRAP book: Despite Hitchcock’s fame and the commercial success of his previous films, Paramount did not want to back “Psycho”, considering it to be a “sleazy horror movie”. As a result, Hitchcock had a shoestring budget to work with and was deferred a lot of the rights to the film. That’s why he shot it… READ MORE
