Better late then never today I guess… still playing catch up from my trip to Toronto. I’ve decided for my “Sketch o’the Week” to do a series of classic rock musicians… ones I have not already done like I did Jimi Hendrix. I’m kicking it off with Janis Joplin. I’ll consider any suggestions people may have. READ MORE
Me, Mike Cope and Sandra Bell-Lundy at Toronto ComiCon Just returned from Toronto after spending a long weekend manning the National Cartoonists Society’s first-time booth there with freelance cartoonist Mike Cope and the creator of the syndicated daily comic strip “Between Friends” Sandra Bell-Lundy. Despite living within 400 miles of the border, I’ve never actually been to Canada until now. I learned the following twenty things while there: Canadians really do say “eh!” at the end of certain sentences. Canadians will deny this, shortly before saying “eh!” They have a lot of really good beer The dollar coin is called a “loonie” The two dollar… READ MORE
Seeing as how Mort’s 86th birthday was yesterday, I thought today I would repost this story I originally blogged in 2006. It’s about how I ended up getting the incredible caricature of me you see above by the incomparable Mr. Drucker himself, and how that eventually led to my being in the National Cartoonists Society, working for MAD, and a whole lot of other wonderful things: Sept. 19, 2006: As I wrote last week, Saturday the 23rd was The Lovely Anna and my 18 year wedding anniversary. We had a lovely dinner in an excellent french restaurant in Minneapolis… it’s nice to be married to… READ MORE
Q: ¬¨‚ĆIn regards to recurring characters like Spy vs Spy, Melvin and Jenkins, and Monroe etc does mad own the rights to those characters (I’m assuming they DO own Spy vs Spy) or does the original artist/ writer still own them? A: Since it’s inception, all the work done for MAD is created as work-for-hire. That means MAD owns the copyright to the specific work and any and all characters or concepts created through that work. That means MAD owns “Spy vs. Spy”, “Melvin and Jenkins”, “Monroe”, concepts like “Celebrity Death Betting Odds”, “The MAD Fold-In”, “The Lighter Side of…” etc. MAD can reprint them… READ MORE
MAD cover art by Mark Fredrickson From the MAD Magazine Website: At 6 PM on April 20th, the guest editor of MAD #533, “Weird Al” Yankovic and MAD Editor John Ficarra will be at the Barnes & Noble¬¨‚Ćat 33 E 17th St in NYC to sign autographs and meet fans! Mark your calendars! Enter the coordinates into your GPS! Moisturize and manicure your hand-shaking hand! It will be fun to see this issue. Weird Al got worked into the piece I did for #533, and I am sure other features will have him involved in some way. This “guest editor” thing is a great idea.… READ MORE
If you are attending the Toronto ComiCon this weekend, stop by and see me at the National Cartoonists Society booth #117! I’ll have copies of my book, my Sherlock and Batman LE prints, exclusive comic con print-cards and original art pages from MAD for sale, and I’ll be doing caricatures and commissions! Also meet “Between Friends” cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy, and on Saturday cartoonist/illustrator Mike Cope! The NCS will have some of it’s fantastic comic con T-shirts available as well, with art from the likes of Sergio Aaragon?¬©s, Jack Davis, Garry Trudeau, Mike Peters, Patrick McDonnell, Bill Ameca, Jim Borgman, Rick Kirkman, Jeff Keane and others!… READ MORE
I just read on Mark Evanier‘s blog that longtime MAD writer Lou Silverstone passed away this past Monday, March 16th at age 90. I never met or worked with him, he having left MAD in the early 90’s and going over to Cracked to write and eventually become an editor there, But I always enjoyed his work on MAD‘s TV parodies. He teamed up a few times with Mort Drucker and especially often with Angelo Torres on many, many classic MAD spoofs. Some of my favorites were “Bats-Man”, “Clodumbo”, “Miami Price” and “The Greatest American Zero”. So long, Lou. Thanks for the many laughs! READ MORE
I’m off to the Toronto ComiCon! You’ll find me at the NCS booth (117) doing caricatures/commissions and with plenty of original MAD pages, prints, and books for sale. One new wrinkle: Exclusive ComiCon stuff! I will have an updated James Bond #007 caricature 6×9 postcard print and a MAD Alfred/Joker variant cover 6×9 postcard print for sale for $5.00 each CHEAP! These will not be for sale anywhere but when I have a booth at a comic book convention. Not online, not via mail. Zip. Gotta come see me! READ MORE
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