Yesterday the movie blog /Film shared an exclusive sneak peek of Serigo Aragonés “A MAD Look at Avatar”, which will appear in issue #503, due out this month (Click on images for a closer look):

I’m too busy to do a regular sketch this week so here are a handful of rough sketches for a (fairly) big storyboard job I am working on. I removed any references that might give anything from the film away. The following is part of the opening and closing of a short animated segment where these two squirrels are gag characters…

A bunch of other stuff happens in the scene, and then we go back to the squirrels…

I haven’t done storyboards since college, but it’s a fun and interesting exercise… pure drawing and storytelling with little concern over the finishing process.

…you’re getting too old to pull multiple all nighters you find yourself staring at two deadlines, one a last minute rush job for your best client and an unusual family issue tossed in the mix and all of a sudden it’s Tuesday and you haven’t slept since you woke up on Sunday morning.

Ah, well. Plenty of sleep tonight… maybe right now actually. In the meantime here is a rare real painting I did last week for an equally rare non-publication job. This is an executive who was a big MAD fan as a kid, commissioned as a gift (at the last minute, ‘natch). Very simple very quick acrylic.

Blechhh…..