Out of my mind trying to get thimgs done before heading out to teach a couple of workshops in Europe in the next week, so I have to post a flashback sketch this week. This is an old one from 2012 that I did in pen… the devilishly handsome Steve Buscemi. “Shut the F#@& up, Donny!” READ MORE
As promised, here’s a look at the splash page and few of the panels from MAD #3’s spoof of “Ready Player One”, written by Desmond Devlin. Whaddya mean, you want to “read the jokes in the balloons”??? What do you think this is, a furshlugginer library?!? Go out and buy a copy of MAD #3, clod! READ MORE
In subscribers mailboxes for a week or so already, on newsstands everywhere tomorrow and in comic book shops and digital this week! Cover– (Mark Fredrickson) ToC (Art by George Woodbridge) Messy Layered One (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) MAD’s Sneaky Tech Tips (Dick DeBartolo, Luke McGarry) Fairy Tale Scenes We’d Like to See (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Tom Luth) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) Postcard from a State of Depression (Mary Trainor) Roach Guy (Joe Kwaczala, Phil “Burrito Breath” Guy) Potrzebie Comics Cover (Kerry Callen) Infant Terrible (Paula Sevenbergen & Allie Goertz, Paulina Ganucheau) The Origin of Spidery-Man (Kerry Callen) Boonies, Burbs and Burgs (Bob Fingerman) Let’s… READ MORE
Q: Some faces are a challenge to exaggerate and get the needed likeness despite changing many elements or shapes of the face’s features. More often, I had to use another photo to get the likeness or stop drawing for a few days before starting again. How do you overcome such challenges and what techniques do you find useful in your kind of work? A: Some faces can be elusive for various reasons, but most of them boil down to your just not being able to physically capture the image you have in your head. Sometimes you approach a caricature with a preconceived idea of what… READ MORE
When I was in Toronto doing a workshop I was a guest on a podcast called “Cashing in on Creativity”. You can listen to it here. This podcast a great show, over 80 episodes so far, focusing on the business side of the creative arts hosted by Bruce Outridge. Besides being a terrific podcast host, Bruce also a talented artist and caricaturist as well as an author and entrepreneur. We chat about the world of illustration, the passing of Nick Meglin, how I got started with MAD and a bunch of other stuff. Bruce’s podcast series is well worth listening to if you are in… READ MORE
I’m crazy busy right now and about to start an insane amount of traveling over the next three months. The “Sketch o’the Week” might see some old sketches and work thrown in for the foreseeable future. BUT that gives me a chance to do something I’ve been meaning to do anyway… post some of the rough sketches I did for various MAD jobs both here and in the Studio Store. These are what I would call “roughs” for the parodies I do for MAD. I do them on the computer most of the time these days, but I spent 15 plus years doing them in… READ MORE
Visit me this weekend at Tampa Bay Comic Con in the Tampa Convention center! The Lovely Anna and I will be at table G-9 in the “Guest Artists Alley” area. I’ll have plenty of crap to sell including my new “Purrrfectly catty” limited edition print and other prints, books, comics, and of course caricatures and commissions. READ MORE
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at MAD‘s parody of the TV show “[scrubs]” from MAD #426, Feb 2003. This was the only article I ever illustrated that was written by longtime MAD editor Charlie Kadau. There are a couple of “insider” cameos in this splash. The guy in the black shirt and the severed arm in the lower right was my physical trainer at the time, Rich Dolan. I thew him in there just for fun. The guy with the glasses putting on the rubber glove next to Kevorkian is former MAD associate editor Greg Leitman, who happened to be college roommates with… READ MORE
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