Sketch O’The Week
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
August 14th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We’re back to our “Famous Movie Moments” series, this time revisiting 1994’s “Forrest Gump” with Tom Hanks on his park bench with his suitcase, box of chocolates, and the feather. Hanks has one of those faces that’s hard to “unlock”, partly because he’s such a great actor that his “presence” can change considerably role to role. That makes it hard to grab hold of an expression that reads as undeniably “him”. As Forrest Gump, he often had a slightly confused and somewhat vacant look on his face, which is what I was going for here. READ MORE
August 7th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Not exactly a “famous movie moment” in the category of “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” or “Here’s looking at you, kid”, but it’s one I think of now and then… especially at certain events. “Revenge of the Nerds” was a goofy movie but it had some great characters. Donald Gibb played the dim-witted Alpha-Beta frat jock Fred “Ogre” Palowoski, who famously hated nerds. This moment from the movie plays in my head a lot during comic cons… I don’t know why. READ MORE
July 31st, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Giants of entertainment keep dropping like flies lately. Just when I thought we would be getting back to our “Famous Movie Moments” series another legend passes. Bob Newhart was a favorite in my family. I listened to his comedy albums as a kid, and I remember watching “The Bob Newhart Show” with my parents in the mid 70’s. The later show “Newhart” was a favorite of mine as a young adult in the mid to late 80s. Both those shows were great successes and long running, popular sitcoms. He also starred in a couple of short-lived, mostly forgotten shows, but those hardly diminished his legacy.… READ MORE
July 10th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
It’s back to our “Famous Movie Moments” series with this sketch of Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya from “The Princess Bride” at the moment he finally comes face to face with the “six-fingered man”. “Hallo! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Trying to think up some of these iconic moments in film to do caricature sketches from I realized I did a lot of such moments in Desmond Devlin and my book of movies parodies, CLAPTRAP. This one included! Only Des wrote the parody of “Princess Bride” as a musical (i.e. “sing to the tune of…”. Here’s the page… READ MORE
July 3rd, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We have to take a quick break from our “Memorable Movie Moments” series to pay tribute to a terrific actor who just passed away… the great Donald Sutherland. When I read of his passing I knew I was going to have to draw him… but in which role? He’s done so many memorable ones over the years. I was leaning toward his “Hawkeye” Pierce from the film version of M*A*S*H*, but settled for his turn as Sgt. Oddball from “Kelly’s Heroes”. I drew him a number of times in the MAD parodies of the “Hunger Games” films as well. Here’s a few of them: READ MORE
