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“Pyscho” Parody Interview

November 16th, 2020 | Posted in General

Des and I are interviewed by caricaturist, illustrator and horror filmmaker Bob East about our “Pyscho” parody in CLAPTRAP. READ MORE

Monday MADness: My First MAD Movie Parody!

November 16th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine

With Desmond Devlin and I doing our CLAPTRAP book project to keep the movie parody comics genre alive, I thought we’d take a look at my very first movie parody in MAD. This spoof of the four time Academy Award winning film “Traffic” was written by Arnie Kogen, and appeared in MAD #405, May 2001. Clicky any image to embiggen… I did three movie spoofs (and one TV spoof) for Cracked magazine before starting with MAD, so this one was not my first actual movie parody printed in a humor magazine, but it was the first one in MAD. If you’ve ever seen “Traffic”, you’ll… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag- MAD Meetings?

November 15th, 2020 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: Did you have the chance to meet Don Martin? He was a bit of a hero of mine when I was a kid in the seventies. Have you met many of the earlier “Usual Gang of Idiots”? A: Don Martin was also one of my favorites as a kid reading MAD in the 70’s! Sadly, no, I never got to meet him. He left MAD in 1987, so he was long gone by the time I started with MAD. In fact, he passed away in early 2000, just a few months before I got my first MAD assignment. A number of the Usual Gang… READ MORE

Trump Stamps!

November 14th, 2020 | Posted in Freelancing

I did these Donald Trump “postage stamp” illustrations for a client this fall. They were supposed to be used by “The Lincoln Project” somehow, but I don’t think they ever did whatever they were planning on using them for. Clearly it was some kind of commentary on how the Trump administration was messing with the U.S. Postal Service. READ MORE

It’s Friday the 13th in 2020…

November 13th, 2020 | Posted in General

… what could possibly go wrong? READ MORE

Illustration Throwback Thursday: Z People!

November 12th, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday

Back in 2018 I did the pencils/inks on this 48 page comic for Sitcomics called “Z-People”. It’s a humorous story about a zombie apocalypse. Here’s the cover, an alternate cover and a few sample pages. Written by Darrin Henry. READ MORE

Daily Coronacature: Holly Hunter!

November 11th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature

Better late than never today. Couldn’t resist drawing Holly Hunter as the other half of the “Raising Arizona” happy couple to go along with last week’s Nicolas Cage! READ MORE

Last Minute Stretch Goals!

November 11th, 2020 | Posted in News

With only 10 days to go before the end of our IndieGoGo campaign for CLAPTRAP, Desmond Devlin and my book of movie parodies, it’s a bit of a… uh… STRETCH to think we can reach either of these two last second stretch goals. Maybe it’s just idiotic. But, we weren’t called “The Usual Gang of Idiots” for nothing! Stretch Goal #4: If we hit $60,000 in funding we will ADD SIX MOVIE POSTER SPOOFS! Des and I will put together six parody movie posters from six films we are NOT spoofing in the book. Added content for all! Stretch Goal #5: If we hit $64,000… READ MORE