It’s that time again. I don’t have any questions for the mailbag right now (other than a couple that are basically asking for a lengthy tutorial on drawing crowd scenes or something similar that are a little more involved than a Q&A). So if you have any questions about cartooning, illustration, MAD Magazine, caricature or similar, e-mail me and I’ll try and answer it here! READ MORE
My final 2018 workshop is on in Phoenix starting today! Class illustration above! I still have a spot available in both my February Las Vegas and March Atlanta workshops, so grab those up while they last! The one day Amsterdam workshop is looking more likely now, so stay tuned for that! READ MORE
I did this mock Rolling Stones cover and interior spread for Minnesota Monthly magazine’s year end issue back in 2012. Every year they would do an article on notable Minnesotans of the past year. The circles on the main image were for photo inserts and copy. The blank rectangles in the spread were for copy they dropped in. The only people most might recognize would be Bob Dylan and former Minnesota Timberwolves NBA player Kevin Love. READ MORE
Super busy right now so here is a “flashback” sketch of Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson. Actually I did this one as part of a series of sketches from the short lived 2008-2009 TV series “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”, in which Ms. Manson played a terminator. Thus the wind up key gag. This sketch appeared in my book The Mad Art of Caricature, which is why I added the digital grays. READ MORE
I’ve had two sudden cancellations for my workshop in Atlanta, GA coming up in March, so the previously sold out class now has two available openings! Click here for the details! READ MORE
Back in MAD #520 (April 2013) I did the art for this three page parody mash up of the TV reality show “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” and the long-running conic strip “The Family Circus”. I had a particularly fun time doing this one because cartoonist Jeff Keane, who took over the strip from his dad Bil Keane several years before Bil’s passing in 2011, is a good friend of mine. In fact, when MAD assigned this to me, I called Jeff up and didn’t tell him this was coming as I wanted to surprise him, but during our conversation asked him “So, what kind… READ MORE
Q: I draw more caricatures for free and fun than commissions or through my sign business but a friend recently shared a bad legal experience with me that left a little too much fear in my pencil. He said his company was sued by a photographer(they settled out of court so there was no legal determination) for purchasing and using a freelance artists Illustration of a grizzly bear that the artist referenced their photograph (without permission) to create his illustration. The photographer saw the Illustration on my friend’s company website (they sell high end illustrations) and filed a suit against the company that paid the… READ MORE
It looks unlikely that I can do a full three day workshop in Amsterdam. The costs of staging one are just too high… I have to charge more than I think people would be able or willing to pay to do it. So here’s a new idea I have been toying with: a single day workshop. This would be a kind of crash course of a class, eliminating some of the extras like my inking and illustration coloring demos, the live caricature round robin, my work retrospective, and a few other things and getting right to the fundamentals of my theories behind seeing and observing,… READ MORE
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