Here’s my annual(ish) plug about MAD Magazine’s website/blog aka “The Idioitical”. While the magazine only comes out every other month, the editors and creators at MAD publish new and very timely content almost daily on their website. Here’s a sampling of some recent stuff. If you are not visiting madmagazine.com regularly, you are missing out on some laughs! READ MORE
New York Comic Con is only a month away! I’ll be there in Artists Alley at table A6 with my usual plethora of crap for sale, including this NYCC exclusive 6″x9″ mini-print. I’m also going to have a new item available that I think people will really like, that will be available on the website as well. I am waiting for the proof to be delivered to be sure the print job is up to par… once I get that squared away I’ll let everyone know about it. Hope to see some of you at NYCC, Oct. 6-9th at the Javits Center! READ MORE
This week’s subject is “Blindspot” star Jaimie Alexander! READ MORE
I get this question often, especially from young artists (or the parents or young artists) who are seeking advice on art as a career and the role of higher education in that career. Artists that ask this question seem to lean towards the idea that higher education is a waste of time and money, and parents of young artists that ask it lean towards the idea that college is a necessity. Both are wrong to some degree. Art school or no art school is an age old question, but one with an easy answer… if you find the right school it is worth the time… READ MORE
Funny what you find when digging through your flat files. I had no idea I still had this. It is the pencil rough for the first piece I ever had printed in MAD, done almost exactly 16 years ago. “Gadgets to Really Make Home Theater Like Going to the Movies!” was written by Dick DeBartolo and appeared in MAD #399, Oct 2000. Here’s what the final looked like in the magazine: READ MORE
Looks like it’s that time again… no questions to answer in the mailbag. I actually only have to post this maybe once or twice a year, and only because many of the questions I get are repeats of ones I have answered more than once in the past (I’ve had this feature running for ten years, and this is the 484th “mailbag” post) or of the “please show me how to crosshatch” variety that are impossible to answer in a few paragraphs. Several regular readers have accounted for a great many of the questions answered here, and for that I thank them. It’s entirely possible… READ MORE
I know a lot of artists who make a great living doing storyboards, which for those who do not know is a kind of comic-book style way of visually mapping out a live action or animated sequence. Movies, TV shows, animation, commercials… anything that ends up on a screen usually uses storyboards as the visual translation of the script. Storyboards can range from very rough drawings to what looks like finished comicbook art, color and all. I haven’t done a lot of storyboard work. I did a few storyboard jobs for commercials for a local Twin Cities studio many years ago, and for a couple… READ MORE
Here’s what’s piled up on the drawing board right now: Just finished the cover of HITS Magazine Three page gag article for MAD “Z People” Comic Product Illustration job for Jeff Dunham Assorted personal projects Marlin poster Illustration Speaking of that last, above is the final art for the illustration that is in print this month for Marlin. Sketch below. READ MORE
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