Been a little too busy to do much superfluous sketching, but here’s another Beatle for my ongoing “Classic Rock” series of caricature sketches… the late, great, George Harrison. READ MORE
The National Cartoonists Society just posted the 2014 nominees for the “Silver Reuben” Divisional Awards. Here’s the complete list with nominees in alphabetical order: Advertising Illustration Kevin Kallaugher Ed Steckley Dave Whammond Editorial Cartoons Clay Bennett Michael Ramirez Jen Sorensen Gag Cartoons Liza Donnelly Benjamin Schwartz Edward Steed Magazine Feature Ray Alma Anton Emdin Tom Richmond Newspaper Illustration Anton Emdin Glen LeLievre Ed Murawinski Newspaper Strips Brian Bassett (Red and Rover) Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) Glenn McCoy (The Duplex) Book Illustration Marla Frazee “The Farmer and the Clown” Yasmeen Ismail “Time for Bed, Fred” Shaun Tan “Rules of Summer” Online Long Form Vince Dorse… READ MORE
Here’s what’s on the drawing board right now: Z-People Comic– Still hammering away at this 45 page comic for SitComics Trading card Illustration- for a corporate client as part of an ongoing educational campaign Half page ad illustration- This is a sort of personal project Big banner ad- for a super-secret public cartoonist’s event TBA!! Workplace poster– My usual monthly assignment This is the worst time of year for me. I am up to my eyeballs in preparations for the NCS Reubens Weekend and finalizing the awards, opening up my theme park operations, and my usual workload. Ugh. Speaking of workplace posters, above is the… READ MORE
Because of the way movie distribution and longevity in the theaters had changed since the 20th century, the MAD movie parody became a lot harder to do. I wrote extensively about it here, but the short version is that even big money-making movies seldom spend more than four or five weeks in theaters these days, and by the time the movie parody comes out (usually a three month lag) the film it spoofed is old news. For a few years in the early-mid 2000’s, MAD tried to do movie parodies in advance of the film’s release. We worked from trailers, bootleg movie scripts, books/comics… READ MORE
These are a couple of follow up questions I’ve gotten via Twitter or email on the subject of selling prints of copyrighted characters: You mention that making limited edition prints is allowed. I’ve never heard that before. Do you have any source for that? I would not say it’s “allowed”. I’d say it is better defensible under a First Amendment defense because “fine art” is better recognized as a traditional vehicle for free speech. That advice was imparted to me by lawyers I consulted in a Chicago based firm specializing in Right of Publicity and Copyright issues when researching an article I was writing. They… READ MORE
I’ve been posting individual caricatures from my book The Mad Art of Caricature! the last few months on Instagram and on my Twitter feed, but they don’t show up here on the blog. Usually it’s a sketch a day, either an original or a golden oldie. If you don’t follow me on Instagram or Twitter, get on the bus! READ MORE
My pal Scott Shaw! started an interesting dialog on Facebook the other day about the plethora of artists who go to comic-cons and sell prints of copyrighted characters. This is an old topic, but I admit I have seen a huge growth in the number of vendors hawking prints of the same old characters… Wolverine, Batman, just about any female superhero/villain in a porn star pose, etc.in the last few years. Some of these booths are HUGE and have literally a hundred different prints for sale. It’s too easy to print these things off on your home computer. What I’ve really noticed is a large… READ MORE
I’ll post a couple of these a week I think… not just on Wednesdays. Here’s a young Paul McCartney. READ MORE
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