May 27th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Click any to embiggen… So I am being lazy today while I (and my liver) are still recovering from the National Cartoonist’s Society Reuben Awards this past weekend in Washington DC (I’ll do a wrap up of that tomorrow). So, for the sketch of the week this week I’l posting the pencil roughs of MAD’s parody of “The Slobbit: Still Banal After Five Movies”. These actually ARE pencil sketches as opposed to digital roughs, as I did them very low-tech while on vacation in Florida. READ MORE
May 26th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to embiggen… As promised, here’s a look at some of the art I did for MAD‘s parody of “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies”, written by Desmond Devlin. That’s the splash page above. And here is the most insane two page spread I ever did for MAD: That took about 4 days to do. Remind me to ask for a raise. I would end this with my standard “What are you waiting for, clod… go out and buy a furshlugginer copy already!” but unless you are a Loot Crate subscriber you are SOL. This parody might end up in a special issue someday,… READ MORE
May 25th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Loot Crate is a grab bag (okay… grab BOX) program where you receive a box full of stuff every month for a subscription fee. It’s geared towards geeks and gamers, and each month the box has a “theme”. May 2015’s theme is “Unite”, and included in the box is a special edition of MAD exclusive to Loot Crate. I have yet to see an actual copy of this issue, so I am unsure how much of the content is reprint material and how much is original. As you can see the cover is an exclusive done by Mark Fredrickson, and I know it contains an… READ MORE
May 24th, 2015 | Posted in General
Here is the gigantically disappointing reason behind my series of caricatures of all 44 U.S. Presidents: The Lovely Anna framed all the originals and used them as the centerpieces for the tables at the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards banquet last night. Each table was the “President’s Table”, with the corresponding number for each president, my caricature, a beautiful vase with blossoms, and a hand painted box with the years of the president’s term(s) written on it. Inside that box were little items representing that president (peanuts for Carter, a little baseball for Taft, a old fashioned radio mic for FDR, etc), and fun facts… READ MORE
May 22nd, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Fun Facts: The first African-American president; was a comic book collector; only president born in Hawaii READ MORE
May 21st, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Fun Facts: Used to be part owner of the Texas Ranger baseball team; son of the 41st president George H.W. Bush; first president elected in the 21st century READ MORE
May 20th, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Fun Facts: Loves peanut butter and banana sandwiches and fast food; was allergic to Socks, the family cat; famously played the saxophone at his inauguration and on TV READ MORE
May 19th, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Fun Facts: Brought the game of “horseshoes” to the White House, often playing with staff and groundskeepers; at 19 was one of the youngest Navy pilots in Word War II; hated broccoli and banned it from the White House READ MORE
