April 13th, 2017 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Sorry for the poor scan, but this is the only image I have of this piece. This was a spot illustration for Minneapolis/St. Paul magazine back in 1995 of some of the stars of the stage musical “Victor/Victoria”, pictured are Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Michael Nouri and Rachel York. The Broadway show premiered in a test run here in the Twin Cities in the summer of ’95, and then had a couple of years on Broadway. This was done in ink and watercolor on illustration board. READ MORE
April 12th, 2017 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series
Back to my “Classic Rock” series of caricature sketches… this week is legendary guitartist, Eric “Slowhand” Clapton. As always the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
April 11th, 2017 | Posted in MAD Magazine
You’ve already seen a sneak peek of the splash page, but here’s a look at a few panels from MAD‘s parody of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” written by David Richards with art by me: Whaddya mean you want to read the words in the balloons? What do you think this is, a furshlugginer library? Go out and buy a copy, clod! READ MORE
April 10th, 2017 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In subscribers mailboxes, comic books shops and via digital now, on news stands next Tuesday!!: Cover (Mark Fredrickson) Letters and Tomatoes (Ed.) Remembering Gerry Gersten (John Ficarra, MAD Executive Editor) The Fundalini Pages (Kenny Keil, Ward Sutton, Jonathan Edwards, Bob Eckstein, Bob Staake, John Kerschbaum, Sam Sisco, Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla, Rich Powell, Christian Alsis, Alejandro Rivas, Jeff Kruse, Steve Silver, Jose Garibaldi, Kevin Pope) World Flags (Writer: Desmond Devlin) Rough One: A Star Bores Snorer (David Richards, Tom Richmond) A MAD Look at YouTube (Sergio Aragonés, Colorist: Tom Luth) No Donald! (Kenny Keil, Sam Viviano and Jim Campbell) The MAD Vault- Duck Edwing D.O.A. (Duck… READ MORE
April 7th, 2017 | Posted in General
Q: Did you have a mentor? Where you a mentor? A: I guess that depends on your definition of “mentor”. To me, that means someone who has actively helped teach you and guide you in your career and goals, as opposed to just being an inspiration with their own work and career. The latter are more “influences” than mentors. I have been lucky to have had (and have) a few people in my life that I would say fit the mentor mold. The first would have to be Steve Fasen and his brother Gary, who gave me my first job in art as a caricaturist… READ MORE
April 7th, 2017 | Posted in MAD Magazine
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
April 6th, 2017 | Posted in News
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
April 5th, 2017 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
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
