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Happy St. Paddy’s Day!

March 17th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Next weekend I’ll be abandoning wintery Minnesota for sunny Anaheim, CA to attend Wondercon 2018! Wondercon takes place at the Anaheim Convention Center March 23rd-25th, and you’ll find The Lovely Anna and me at booth number SP-83. You will also find me at the highly entertaining Quick Draw hosted by Mark Evanier, where I will not be just making a cameo appearance, but will be one of the three participating artists! That means I’ll be going head to head with Quick Draw master Sergio Aragonés and Scott Shaw! Lonnie Milsap, which also means I’ll be getting my artistic ass handed to me. Should be fun,… READ MORE

Illustration Throwback Thursday #45

March 15th, 2018 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday

I did the pencils and inks (I think) for the cover of this “Mr. Lizard” one shot 3-D comic for NOW Comics, circa 1993. READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Anne Baxter (Olga)!

March 14th, 2018 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

We are getting increasingly more obscure with our run of 60’s Batvillians. Here’s Anne Baxter as “Olga, Queen of Cossacks” from the third season of “Batman”. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. Bat Facts: While this was Olga’s only appearance on the series, Anne Baxter had another appearance. She first appeared in the opening season as “Zelda the Great”. This marked her as the only guest actor to play two different villains READ MORE

Some MAD Birthdays! Al and Sam!

March 13th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Illustrations done for CNN, circa 2011 Wishing a happy birthday today to two of my artistic heroes! Longtime MAD artist and MAD‘s art director for over two decades, Sam Viviano has been a real mentor to me for twenty plus years. Sam is 65 today! That’s barely out of diapers compared to the other birthday boy. Al Jaffee is 97 years old today. He just completed yet another fold-in job for MAD, where his artwork has appeared in 500 of the 550 published issues. I don’t throw the term “genius” around lightly, but in Al’s case the shoe fits. As an artist, writer and humorist,… READ MORE

New Workshop Scheduled: Portland OR!

March 13th, 2018 | Posted in News

Above: Class illustration from my recent workshop in Los Angeles Hey Northwest U.S. artists! Announcing one of my three day caricature workshops in Portland OR! The dates are Fri June 29th to Sun July 1st. The workshop will be taking place in the Wacom Experience Center at Wacom headquarters. This is a great space and best of all Wacom will be providing digital equipment for students to use if desired. As a result I’ll be spending a little more time demoing and teaching my digital coloring techniques than I usually do at these workshops. Otherwise the weekend will be the usual intense learning and drawing… READ MORE

Monday MADness… Des Devlin!

March 12th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Caricature of longtime MAD scribe Des Devlin for MAD 550’s feature article “Gotcha! Mug Shots of Common (but Despicable) Criminals” written by Scott Maiko. Uhhh… sorry, Des? READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag: Wiggly Customers?

March 11th, 2018 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: When doing live caricatures: What do you say to a customer who just cannot sit still and moves the head here and there? A: SHUT THE HELL UP AND SIT STILL!!!! Thanks to Dominick Zeillinger for the question. If you have a question you want answered for the mailbag about cartooning, illustration, MAD Magazine, caricature or similar, e-mail me and I’ll try and answer it here! READ MORE