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Des and I Flippin’ Live!

April 5th, 2024 | Posted in General

Catch Des and I LIVE on the “Flippin’ Through” MAD channel this Sunday, April 7th at 8 pm CDT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PjCHx8Ai7s READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week: Bogey and Bergman!

April 3rd, 2024 | Posted in General

Here’s caricaturing you, kid! It’s time to round up the usual suspects as we begin a new series for the “Sketch o’the Week”… famous movie scenes! This was inspired by this sketch, which was actually a commission ordered by a longtime customer who wanted Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman drawn in the classic ending scene from “Casablanca”. After I did the sketch I thought a series of caricatures from classic moments in cinema history would be a lot of fun to do. READ MORE

TONIGHT: Des and I Live on “Pop Goes the Culture!

April 1st, 2024 | Posted in General

What more do you want on April Fool’s Day than a live show with some actual fools! The CLAPTRAP/MAD duo of Desmond Devlin and me will be guests tonight on David Levin‘s “Pop Goes the Culture” show. Live at 9 PM Eastern! 6 PM Pacific! All the time zones in between! We’ll be talking about our new book, our old experiences and more. You can listen live on YouTube for free! If you want to participate in the show and Q&A, you can do so here (not free). READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- David Byrne!

March 27th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

In a rare break from tradition, the original of this sketch is still available! We are Burning Down the House with this week’s sketch of “Talking Heads” frontman David Byrne! The “Talking Heads” was one of those bands that was impossible to categorize. They came into being during the punk rock/New wave era of the late 1970’s, but they weren’t really part of either movement, although “New Wave” is what they get shoehorned into when being discussed. They were the definition of “their own thing”, and a big part of that was Byrne’s oddball but charismatic presence. You couldn’t quite tell if he and the… READ MORE

Wondercon This Weekend!

March 26th, 2024 | Posted in News

Come find me this week at Wondercon at the National Cartoonists Society booth Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! I’ll have copies of CLAPTRAP, Sketch o’the Week book, prints and will be doing commissions… the usual garbage. READ MORE

Monday MADness Interlude: We’re Moving!

March 25th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine

We interrupt the incessant and increasingly idiotic idling through my work at MAD because it was at this point in the timeline that it was announced MAD was moving from its New York City home of 65 years to sunny Burbank, California. Most people who read this blog already know this story, but this next paragraph is the tl;dr version of why this happened: In 2015 DC Entertainment closed up the New York City offices of its DC Comics publishing group and moved everything to the Warner Bros Complex out in Burbank. MAD was part of those publishing operations and the magazine’s offices were part… READ MORE

RIP: M. Emmet Walsh

March 22nd, 2024 | Posted in General

Condolences to the friends and family of character actor extraordinaire M. Emmet Walsh, who passed away on Tuesday. He appears here as “Captain Bryant” in our parody of “Blade Runner” in CLAPTRAP. READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Ray Charles!

March 20th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

We continue our new “famous blind black musicians” series this week with the late, great Ray Charles! Actually we really could do a series of famous blind black musicians if we wanted to. Ronnie Milsap, Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind John Davis, Art Tatum, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Blind Boys of Mississippi… that would keep me busy for a couple of months! I think we’ll cap it off with Brother Ray, though. This sketch is based on a caricature of him in one of the panels from “The Blues Brothers”… READ MORE