This Sunday I’ll be conducting a one hour Zoom-based “mini-workshop” on how to draw caricatures for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival taking place virtually this year from Jolly ol’ England. The workshop is free but you need to register for it ahead of time. The 4 pm start is UK time, so that’s 11 am Central time, 12 noon Eastern time. READ MORE
Catch Desmond and I on the Pop EX! show LIVE tomorrow night at 9:00 PM EDT. The show will be recorded and available to watch later if you miss it, but where’s the fun in that? You get to ask questions and sound off in the live chat! We’ll be talking CLAPTRAP, MAD Magazine, movie and TV parodies, our diet and lots of other stuff! READ MORE
This Thursday was supposed to be the start of New York Comic Con, which was subsequently cancelled. This constitutes the fourth comic-con I was supposed to appear at in 2020 that has been shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. This one is arguably my favorite con of the year, and The Lovely Anna and I are sad we won’t be in the Big Apple this weekend seeing so many friends and peers. Like the other three cancelled cons, I will instead be opening up my “Virtual Artist’s Alley Table” here on my website for the same hours as the physical convention was supposed to… READ MORE
Well, not “on the stands” since MAD is no longer on newsstands anywhere. It’s not in comic book shops either because that won’t happen until Wednesday, assuming you can find a copy in a comic book shop at all. It is, however, in most subscriber’s mailboxes already. I’m no longer going to list the contents of the issues, since the vast majority of it is reprinted material. I’ll just list anything that’s new. So here you go: Cover (Bob Lizarraga) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) Dastardly Dr. Bunk’s MAD Monster Lab (Tom Bunk) Classic Movie Scenes We’d Like to See (Sergio Aragonés) Fold-In (Johnny Sampson)… READ MORE
Q: Besides “The Rise of Skywalker”, what other movies are you planning on doing parodies of in your book? A: By “book”, do you mean CLAPTRAP, the book of movie parodies MAD writer Desmond Devlin and I are currently shamelessly crowdfunding on IndieGoGo? I thought so. Right now we are planning to do ten full length movie parodies, with some extra movie related gag features in between. However if we reach our funding goal we will have stretch goals that will add up to two more full-length spoofs for a possible total of twelve. We have several classic movies already picked out (in fact Des… READ MORE
MAD writer Desmond Devlin, MAD artist and former art director Sam Viviano and I will be doing a live panel discussion for US military and their families week Wednesday. Our talk is part of a larger event for the USO, featuring not only some big time cartoonists but also some less well known people like Scarlett Johanson, Chris Evans, Jon Berenthal and other d-list actors. This is only for service members and their dependents, so if that’s you follow the registration link above to get a virtual seat at the panel! READ MORE
Last weekend I was in Chicago teaching my last makeup workshop of 2020. I still have one that was postponed twice in the New York area to do, but I am not going to reschedule that one until I am sure it will not have to be postponed again. As of now I am not scheduling any new in-person workshops, and will not schedule any until the pandemic is well and truly over and there will be no need for postponements or cancellations. That will likely not be until the second half of 2021, or maybe even a full year from now. Ever since I… READ MORE
Here’s my caricature of today’s “The Daily Coronacature” subject, former Journey lead singer Steve Perry. Caricature Notes: Age plays a part in a subject’s features, but even if you are drawing a caricature of someone at a younger age I find pics of them older help me see things to exaggerate in their younger version. Steve has a very prominent nose, but the latter day pics of him show me how wide and rounded his lower face is, how small his eyes are, and how he actually has a pretty small mouth for a guy known for belting out big songs. READ MORE
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