This week’s subject: internet loud mouth Perez Hilton, someone with even less of a reason to be famous that the heiress who’s name he uses. I am told this is a very atypical expression for him, but it was done from a short article in an entertainment magazine and seemed the best of the reference I saw.

I’m still busy recovering from my travels and catching up on the studio. The Pittsburgh wrap up will have to wait until later in the week.

In the meantime here’s a cover piece I just finished for Scholastic, who do not mind if I share it prior to publication. It’s the cover of one of their math magazines:

Pencil sketch

Finished art. Click on image for a closer look…

While I do have a deadline I am too under the weather to get up the energy to do a real post today. All this travel has caught up to me and I came home with a bad cold… or maybe the Swine Flu (??). Tomorrow I will post a wrap up of our trip to Pittsburgh and the Toonseum show.

Uh oh! Looks like the mailbag is empty!

When I get some fresh questions concerning cartooning, illustration, freelancing, MAD Magazine or other similar subjects I’ll be happy to answer them as best I can. E-mail me your questions and I’ll try and answer them here!

Last night’s opening reception went well with a nice crowd. Here are some pictures from the event:

The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

Toonseum curator/director Joe Wos and me

Some of the pieces in the show

Three of my kids: Victoria, Gabrielle and Tom

Joe and I look over part of the show

There were a number of local cartoonists and caricaturists at the reception, which featured some food, wine and a DJ. Lots of fun.

Today I do a demo for kids at 1:00 pm and then at 5:00 I conduct a “master class” on caricature.