Sunday Mailbag- Celebrity Commissions?

Q: Did Quentin Tarantino request a sketch of himself after you illustrated 2 covers for his film “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood”? Who are some well known celebrities who have commissioned you? 

A: No, Quentin didn’t ask me to draw him after I did those prop covers… I just did it for fun for my “Sketch o’the Week”.

I haven’t had all that many celebrities commission me to do art for them. It’s much more frequent to have celebrities, particularly writers, producers, and directors, contact me about the art I did of their show or movie in MAD. However I have had a few direct commissions/projects.

A few years ago Bobby Moynihan commissioned me to do the cast of Saturday Night Live, prints of which he gave to the cast at the season wrap party:

I’ve done a number of pieces for Judd Apatow, both for a movie and as a personal commission. I did this alternate movie poster illustration for his film “The King of Staten Island””

I also did this watercolor piece as a gift for his wife Leslie Mann‘s birthday:

Quite a long time ago cartoonist/author/musician Sandra Boynton commissioned me to do this painting of her friend Weird Al Yankovic for his 50th birthday:

I did a few private illustrations for J.J. Abrams for a friend of his for a gag he pulled on him, but it would not be appropriate to share those here. Those are the only ones I can think off off the top of my head.

Thanks to Joey Paskevicius for the question. If you have a question you want answered for the mailbag about  cartooning, illustration, MAD Magazine, caricature or similar, e-mail me and I’ll try and answer it here!