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Merry Christmas!

December 25th, 2016 | Posted in General

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! I’m going to put the blog on hiatus for the final week of the year. Things will resume next Monday in 2017! READ MORE

Sudden Open Space in Orlando Workshop!

December 23rd, 2016 | Posted in General

That empty space is filled. Thanks to all and we’ll see you next month! I just had one of my students for my Orlando workshop next month withdraw from the class, so I suddenly have an opening! First come, first served. I reduced the tuition from $600 to $500 for the workshop recently as I decided $600 is too much to expect people to pay, even though I did sell out Orlando at that price. READ MORE

Paul Peter Porges 1927-2016

December 23rd, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Image courtesy MAD Magazine MAD lost another longtime member of the Usual Gang of Idiots this past week with the passing of Paul Peter Porges at age 89. Porges led a very interesting life. Born in Vienna in 1927, he fled the Nazis as a child via France before being captured and placed in a deportment camp. He escaped by hiding in a garbage collection and was smuggled into Switzerland, where he studied art and met his future wife, Lucie. After the war he emigrated to the United States along with his parents, who themselves had survived a Nazi concentration camp. While serving in the… READ MORE

Las Vegas Workshop Back On: Feb 7-9th!

December 22nd, 2016 | Posted in News

Great news, my Las Vegas workshop is back on for Feb 7th-8th and 9th, 2017! It will take place at High Class Studios, 5240 West Charleston Blvd in Las Vegas. This is a brand new teaching/studio facility owned by Jason Neistadt, and we will be one of the first if not THE first event on the remodeled property. It will be a great space for the workshop. The downside for anyone coming in from out of town is that this is not a hotel, so out-of-towners will need to find a hotel on their own. The closest one is Arizona Charlie’s Decatur, which is only .7… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Evan Rachel Wood!

December 21st, 2016 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

The first of a series of caricatures from “Westworld”, here is Evan Rachel Wood. READ MORE

No Las Vegas Workshop For Now…

December 20th, 2016 | Posted in News

Sorry to say my meeting space booking for the Las Vegas Workshop in February suddenly fell through, and I will not be able to do it on those dates because all of my alternate spaces are also booked up. So, I am going to have to rethink the dates and replan the entire thing. This is the second time a hotel has dropped the ball on me… my London workshop had to switch to a different hotel at the last second also. Very frustrating. I will announce when the new dates are set. 🙁 READ MORE

Monday MADness: Honoring Angelo!

December 19th, 2016 | Posted in Monday MADness

I was extremely remiss in not posting about this right after it happened. The National Cartoonists Society honored wonderful, longtime member of MAD‘s “Usual Gang of Idiots” Angelo Torres with the prestigious Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award on October 24th in a ceremony in New York City. The Caniff is a big deal, and Angelo greatly deserve the recognition for a long and fantastic career both inside and outside the pages of MAD. Unfortunately I could not be there, as I was in Orlando on our annual family trip to visit The Mouse and other friends at the time. Several of Angelo’s admirers sent… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag: Drawing Subject Young and Old?

December 18th, 2016 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: Have you ever had to draw someone who has been in showbiz for most of their adult life, and had to draw a young version of them, and an older version of them (think Stevie Nicks, Madonna, Mike Patton, etc)? Can you essentially pull it off by the drawing same face with a few extra wrinkles, or does a person’s facial structure change in a more nuanced way? (Jowls, bigger noses, etc.) A: Yes, I have had to draw different aged version of subjects many times. The first example that comes to mind for me is probably Ed O’Neil and Christina Applegate, both whole… READ MORE