Not only are the films of “The Master of Suspense” director Alfred Hitchcock still revered and studied by film students today, 40 years after his death, but caricaturists are still having fun drawing him! READ MORE
Katy was actually yesterday’s subject but who’s counting? The original was a small pencil sketch and I added the grays digitally… this one appears in my The Mad Art of Caricature book. READ MORE
Back in 2016 MAD started producing a series of parodies of children’s books starting with Goodnight Batcave (spoofing the beloved Margaret Wise Brown/Clement Hurd classic Goodnight Moon) written by MAD editor Dave Croatto with art by me. We followed that in 2017 with Superman and and the Miserable, Rotten, No Fun, Really Bad Day, also written by Dave with art by me, and in 2018 with Don’t Let the Penguin Drive the Batmobile, this time penned by another MAD editor, Jacob Lambert, and again with art by yours truly. Shortly after MAD moved to Burbank in early 2018, we actually pitched another kids book parody… READ MORE
Q: Do you think about caricatures differently when you are working on a MAD parody with multiple faces, as compared with caricaturing a single face. For example, do you consciously play the faces off against each other to see how they differ, and how those differences might help with your choices about exaggeration? Do you think the relationship to other faces in a parody causes you to make different choices than if you were caricaturing a subject on their own? Does this also apply with caricaturing couples or groups in a live setting (or maybe more so apply in those settings)? Very seldom would I do that in a… READ MORE
Today’s Daily Coronacature subject was baseball legend Babe Ruth… there’s not much more purely American thing than baseball, so a fitting subject on this Fourth of July! READ MORE
Today’s subject is the late Robin Williams! This is actually a reworking of a small ink drawing I did of him years ago. It’s an atypical expression for Robin as you usually see him with an over the top grin or mugging for the camera. READ MORE
The 11th printing of The Mad Art of Caricature is in production now, and will arrive later next month. Certified cartoon genius and recently retired slacker Al Jaffee was kind enough to write and draw a second afterword for what was going to be the 2.0 version of the book, but as that has been put on indefinite hold I thought I’d just add Al’s new afterword to this and any future printings of the original book. As it turns out this may be among the last original Al Jaffee art in publication. These two new pages will be in the upcoming printing, following Sam… READ MORE
This was a job I did for the School Library Journal back in 2008, illustrating a story about popular teen science fiction literature from years ago compared to modern work. I happened to run across the concept roughs and much of the process stuff as well so I thought it might be interesting to see that: Above: Two initial thumbnail concepts… one a full page and one a “cross gutter” type layout. Often a magazine job needs to be placed within an already set layout, but in this case they allowed me flexibility in that regard. They liked the cross gutter layout, but wanted to… READ MORE
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