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Drac o’the Week- Flashback Bela!

May 11th, 2016 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Latest for SI Kids

May 10th, 2016 | Posted in Freelancing

I did this illustration that is the the May issue of Sports Illustrated Kids. It illustrates some of the funniest (and oddest) sports injuries ever. For example, the Baltimore Orioles’ Marty Cordova once fell asleep in a tanning bed and sunburned his face so badly he missed playing time. READ MORE

Monday MADness- Battyman Begone!

May 9th, 2016 | Posted in Monday MADness

Here’s a look at the pencils/pencil roughs (most of them) and the finished art pages from MAD‘s parody of “Batman Begins” back in MAD #455, June 2005… written by Desmond Devlin. READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag: First Live Caricature?

May 8th, 2016 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: I was asked to spend an evening drawing caricatures at a party, but chickened out. I believe the key to success is practice, practice, practice and I just wasn’t ready for it, but I was curious to know, when and what was your first ‘live’ caricature session and how did it go? A: I don’t remember the exact date but the first time I drew live caricatures was in May of 1985 at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL. I was contracted by a company called Fasen Arts to draw there for the summer. Although I had no experience doing live caricature I… READ MORE

The Dreaded Deadline Demon

May 6th, 2016 | Posted in General

Throwback Illustration Thursday #24

May 5th, 2016 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday

With the news earlier this year that Penthouse is ceasing their print magazine, I thought I’d post some of the illustrations I’ve done for them over the years. Some time ago I did a post showing many of the Dave Navarro spot illustrations I did for his monthly column, you can see those here. This was my first job for them, a “timeline” of a typical office guy’s St. Patrick’s Day: READ MORE

Drac o’the Week- Max Schreck!

May 4th, 2016 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

No doubt I’ll get a few arguments that Max Schreck did not “officially”‘ play Dracula in the 1922 film “Nosferatu”, since the character was called Count Orlock, and all the other names were also changed from the Bram Stoker story. However, it’s widely accepted that this was an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, so much so that Schreck is in many lists of the greatest screen Draculas ever. The courts seemed to think it was Dracula as well, as they ruled against the filmmakers in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the Stoker estate and ordered all copies of the film destroyed. Like a good vampire,… READ MORE

Not Attending WW Minneapolis…

May 3rd, 2016 | Posted in News

I doubt this news will ruin anyone’s weekend (except mine) but due to an impossible deadline job that just got dropped on me I will not be able to man my booth at Wizard World Minneapolis this weekend as planned. In fact, you won’t see much in the way of any blog posts from me for a while either. Sleeping will also be a forgotten luxury. READ MORE