Yahoo Movies has an exclusive sneak peek of MAD’s parody of “Rogue One”, entitled “Rough One”. Written by David Richards with art by me, you’ll just have to wait for the issue to come out on April 19th to read the other 5 pages of stupidity. READ MORE
I recently closed down my combo caricatures and airbrush tattoo booth at Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America and rebranded it “Paint ‘n Pixels”, a caricature booth that offers either traditional airbrush caricatures or ones done 100% digitally… both for the same price. The traditional caricatures are our usual originals done with either graphite or marker (depending on the artist) and airbrush, where you get one original on 12×16 paper. The digital verison is done using ClipStudio Paint on a 16″ Wacom Workstudio Pro, and you getth both a high resolution 12 x 16 print and a screen resolution version either emailed or messaged… READ MORE
Big deadline on a book job this week, so no time for a new SotW today. Here’s the pencil sketch (ok, it’s digital put still a sketch) of a job I did for SI Kids back in November. Final art below. READ MORE
Paste Magazine has an exclusive sneak peek at the cover (by Mark Fredrickson shown above) and one of the articles in the upcoming MAD #545… a parody of the classic children’s book “No David!” entitled “No Donald!”, written by Kenny Keil with art by MAD‘s art director Sam Viviano and colorist Jim Campbell. Here’s the first page: MAD certainly has been on a kid’s book parody kick lately. Check out the rest on Paste Magazine’s website. READ MORE
Back in MAD #513 (Feb 2012) I did the art for a “MAD 20” piece written by Kit Lively & Scott Nickel making fun of the big bag of crazy that was Charlie Sheen. I have this caricature of him on my comic-con table banner and it often stops people in their tracks because of the funny mash-up concept. The art called for both a main image and spots of mock comic book covers for “The Sheen Lantern”. Pencil rough and close ups of the comic covers below: READ MORE
Whoops… looks like I have run out of mailbag questions. Well, I have been asked and answered over 500 of them since starting this blog. It’s entirely possible that people have run out of questions. There are only so many questions people might have about freelancing, illustration, MAD, etc. So maybe this feature has run its course. I guess that’s up to you. So, if you have questions concerning cartooning, illustration, freelancing, MAD Magazine or other similar subjects I’ll be happy to answer them as best I can. E-mail me your questions and I’ll try and answer them here! READ MORE
Staring today! Find me at booth DL-02! Here’s my schedule: Friday March 31: 1 pm-7 pm: Selling junk and drawing stuff Saturday April 1: 10 am- 7pm: Selling junk and drawing stuff Sunday April 2: 10 am- 5pm: You guessed it: Selling junk and drawing stuff READ MORE
Since the news broke a few weeks ago about DC finally moving MAD out to Burbank to join the rest of the comic publishing division, I’ve read a lot of opinions on what the results of such a move are going to be. They range from yet another obituary on the death of MAD (these started right around the time Harvey Kurtzman left the magazine in 1956) to those who think in this day and age it doesn’t matter where it’s published, because all the artists and writers are freelance anyway and where the magazine is put together is immaterial. It’s that last one that… READ MORE
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