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Sketch o’the Week- Gaten Matarazzo!

October 5th, 2016 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

More “Stranger Things” cast caricatures! Here is Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson. READ MORE

MAD 542 Sneak Peek!

October 4th, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine

As promised, here’s a sneak peek at “the Last 100 Days of the Obama Presidency” written by Kenny Keil and Jeff Kruse. Below are the full pages first posted by the Washington Post last week, and here are a few of the other spots from the feature… I’ll let you imagine what the captions might say. Better yet, go out and buy the issue to find out! READ MORE

NYCC St. Jude Benefit Auction!

October 3rd, 2016 | Posted in News

Every year the folks at New York Comic Con put on an auction of original comic art to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This year they have their usual stellar lineup of art from over 100 different creators. You can visit their auction page to see much of the art that will be auctioned off, and for more info. I donated the piece above, one of the pages from MAD‘s parody of “Man of Steel” from issue #524. The auction will be held Saturday night (10/8) at 6:45pm in room 1A18 at NYCC in the Javits Center in NYC. It’s not online so you… READ MORE

On the Stands: MAD #542

October 3rd, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine

In subscribers mailboxes, comic books shops and via digital this week, on news stands next Tuesday!!: Cover (Mark Fredrickson) Letters and Tomatoes (Ed.) Remembering Jack Davis (Contributions from readers) The Fundalini Pages (Rick Tulka, Johnny Sampson, Peter Kuper, Jeff Kruse, Kevin Pope, Will McPhail, Garth Gerhart, Stephen Silver, Anton Emdin, Paul Coker, Justin Peterson, Hermann Mejia, Sam Viviano, ) The Last 100 Days of the Obama Presidency (Kenny Keil and Jeff Kruse, Tom Richmond) The MAD “I Will Make America Great Again” Citizen’s Pledge (Artist: Ward Sutton) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) MAD’s Breakdown of Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Voters (Stan Sinberg, Sam Sisco)… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag- Switch to Digital?

October 2nd, 2016 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: When (and why) did you make the switch to doing your artwork digitally, and do you ever miss the traditional media you used to use? A: Back in the early 90’s I was using a combination of watercolor, acrylics and airbrush to do color illustrations. here are a few very old examples: Right around that time I started doing a series of comic book style booklets for a company that produced anti-drugs, anti-smoking, anti-drinking and other anti-stuff materials for schools. They wanted me to do the work digitally, so I bought myself an Apple Macintosh computer and taught myself how to use Adobe Illustrator.… READ MORE

SotW Book in the Store for Preorder!

September 30th, 2016 | Posted in News

I just got the big shipment of final printed copies of my Sketch o’the Week, Vol. 1 book in yesterday. The print job looks good! I have added the book to the Studio Store, but it’s unofficially a “preorder” right now. I still want to wait for the first copies to be sold at New York Comic Con next week, and I am crazy busy right now trying to get my studio work done before I head to NYC next week so I don’t have time to sign and ship copies anyway. All orders placed between now and Oct 10th will ship on the 11th.… READ MORE

On the Drawing Board- 9/29/16

September 29th, 2016 | Posted in On the Drawing Board

The drawing board is a little crazy at the moment: Spot Illustration for a Trap Shooting competition magazine Jeff Dunham product illustration Movie parody for MAD #543 Another MAD book job Z People Comic Book Assorted commission jobs Marlin workplace poster Speaking of the latter, the illustration I did a couple of months ago that would be released this month is above, pencil roughs below. Gotta get to work!! READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- David Harbour!

September 28th, 2016 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Continuing with my series of “Stranger Things” sketches, here is Chief Jim “Hop” Hopper as portrayed by David Harbour! Incidentally, I have not been adding my weekly sketches to the Studio Store lately… just a little to busy to follow through. I have rectified that, so this one and several other have just been added. READ MORE