Sketch O’The Week
October 16th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This sketch is still available in the Studio Store! I don’t know if this qualifies as a “famous movie moment”, but it’s one of my favorites. “Airplane” was released in 1980, and quickly became the gold standard for spoof movies. Leslie Nielsen also found his calling as one of the great camp actors of all time. He’d go on to start in the “Naked Gun” series, “Spy Hard”, a few of the “Scary Movie” films and, of course, “Dracula: Dead and Loving it” where he teamed up with another great parody film master, Mel Brooks. I loved his take on Dracula so much, I had… READ MORE
October 9th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here we go with a sketch of yet another acting legend who has recently left us, and this one was a real witch. And a countess. And a nun. And an Oscar Winner (twice). And an Emmy winner (four times). Three Golden Globes. Five BAFTAS. A Tony. In other words, a true acting legend. She had an incredible career well before the Harry Potter films and “Downton Abbey” cemented her legacy in blockbuster films and high profile TV shows. Farewell, Dame Maggie. As always, Premium Subscribers to my Substack are able to watch me do my weekly sketch in real time, while I bather on… READ MORE
October 2nd, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is a little something different since I was about 4,300 miles from my studio when I did it and thus without a scanner to scan a pencil sketch. I did this sketch of Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen as part of a talk I did on MAD movie parodies and caricature entirely digitally using my portable Wacom Cintiq tablet and Photoshop. I drew it live in front of a studio audience! READ MORE
September 25th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
In a rare break from tradition, the original of this sketch is still available in the Studio Store! This week’s “Famous Movie Moment” features Hollywood’s most famous chin, the late Kirk Douglas from the “I am Spartacus” scene from the 1960 movie of the same name. Well, actually this is not from THAST scene, but is just Kirk in the role. The film was directed by a young Stanley Kubrick, who took over after original director Anthony Mann was fired only a few weeks into the shoot. Douglas’s production company was producing the film, so they brought Kubrick on board after Douglas’s work with Kubrick… READ MORE
September 18th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Admit it… you know this one was coming one when the passing of the great James Earl Jones last Monday at the age of 93. Jones of course had an incredible career on both stage and screen, but will probably be best known as the voices of Darth Vader in the “Star Wars” movies and Mufasa in “The Lion King”, which doesn’t credit him properly for the many other memorable performances he did over a long career. Personally, I remember him scaring the crap out of me as “Thulsa Doom” in the original 1982 “Conan the Barbarian” movie opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was evil but… READ MORE
September 11th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
“Throw me the idol and I’ll throw you the whip!” The opening scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” introduced the world to Indiana Jones in 1981, and movies were never the same. Harrison Ford was already a big star thanks to playing Han Solo in “Star Wars”, “The Empires Strikes back” and, of course, television’s immortal “The Star Wars Holiday Special”. But jumping from one hugely popular action hero to another (and back and forth), and ultimately another widely successful movie franchise, launched his career into the stratosphere. Just a year after “Raiders” he’d play Rick Deckard in another sci-fi classic, “Blade Runner”. He… READ MORE
September 4th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
What’s in the BOX???!! Here’s another sketch from my “Famous Movie Moments” series. “Se7en” was a groundbreaking but brutally disturbing 1995 crime thriller/horror movie that helped star Brad Pitt break out of his “pretty boy” typecasting and into more diverse roles. The end of the film’s “What’s in the box?” scene is a never ending internet gif/meme to this day. I do a video of me drawing these sketches every week, and paid subscribers to my weekly newsletter have access to them. Every once and a while I share that video with everyone, and this is one of those every once and a whiles: Subscribe… READ MORE
August 28th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
HEEEERRRRE’S JOHNNY!! Our “Famous Movie Moment” is from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film masterpiece “The Shining”: Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence. READ MORE
