January 8th, 2017 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Does an aspiring caricaturist need to do theme parks to earn a living doing caricatures? How does one find work as a freelance caricaturist? A: That’s two questions. Let’s start with the first one. No, you do not need to work in a theme park to earn a living as a caricaturist. In fact it’s tough to earn a living as a theme park caricaturist unless you own your own operation or work at a place that is insanely busy year around because of the nature of the business. Theme parks take around 40% of the gross sales as their “rent”, which is ridiculously… READ MORE
January 6th, 2017 | Posted in General
It’s that time of year again, the National Cartoonists Society’s annual Divisional Awards aka the “Silver Reubens” are gearing up, and they need your submissions for consideration. Each division has specific sets of eligibility criteria, but the following are universal: Must be professionally published between Dec 1, 2015 and Dec 31, 2016 Creator need not be an NCS member, but must be eligible for NCS membership (i.e. a professional cartoonist) The NCS has changed some of the procedures for this year, so please read the gudielines carefully. Here’s the details from the NCS website: The National Cartoonists Society has begun its annual call for entries… READ MORE
January 5th, 2017 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
These are two images I did for an advertising campaign for a “car storage” company on the west coast in 2007. They were selling a service where they stored and pampered expensive cars for people. This is a good example of the type of bread and butter jobs freelancers do that are far from sexy but help pay the bills. READ MORE
January 4th, 2017 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here in 2017 I’m continuing my “Westworld” studies, starting with mastermind Dr. Robert Ford himself, Anthony Hopkins! I must say this is by far my best “sketch o’the week” of the year! (so far) READ MORE
January 3rd, 2017 | Posted in General
I had to share these extremely cool photos of what my fellow Sherlockian David Haugen did with his limited edition Sherlock print… he managed to get ORIGINAL autographs of all eight Sherlocks depicted and added them to the matted and framed piece: Pretty impressive considering John Barrymore died in 1942, Basil Rathbone died in 1967, Peter Cushing died in 1994 and Jeremy Brett died in 1995. David told me the hardest one to get was Cushing, because of the Star Wars connection. Not surprising… Cushing is the hardest working dead actor in Hollywood. Anyway, I thought this was awesome. Well done, David! READ MORE
January 2nd, 2017 | Posted in Monday MADness
My art for the MAD 20 this year… you’ll find it and the other nineteen “Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2016” in MAD #543, on news stands now! READ MORE
January 1st, 2017 | Posted in General
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