This week’s Sketch o’the Week is in honor of my trip to Canada this weekend for the Toronto ComicCon… Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas AKA Bob and Doug McKenzie of “The Great White North”! READ MORE
I’ve done a few pieces for the Warner Bros consumer products line, and the above I did a year or two ago as a t-shirt illustration. Below are some preliminary roughs!: READ MORE
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at some of the art I did for the parody of the second Harry Potter movie: “Harry Plodder and the Lamest of Sequels”, written by Desmond Devlin, from MAD #424, Dec 2002. This parody is my record for length of any piece I ever did for MAD, weighing in at whopping 9 pages! Sadly, it seems that 5 of the original digital files of those pages are lost, as¬¨‚Ć I only found the splash page and pages 3 and 4 on my hard drive… (clicky any to embiggen): READ MORE
Q: I just watched the NCS awards banquet on your site (thanks for posting!), and just attended my forth International Society of Caricature Artists convention. How do these organizations differ regarding choosing award recipients, if at all? At ISCA members vote for the winner of the coveted Noseys. Is this the same with NCS–do members vote or are Reuben recipients chosen by elected board members? A: They are very different. The questioner knows all about the ISCA awards, but I’ll fill readers in on both. The International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA) hold an annual convention and competition each year. At the event, competing artists… READ MORE
Image courtesy madmagazine.com It’s a MAD dual birthday today… in fact it happens on this day every year! Yes, today is the birthday of both legendary “MAD fold-In” creator Al Jaffee and longtime MAD artist and current MAD art director Sam Viviano. You see above Al accepting Sam’s award for picking such an excellent date for his birthday, and Al thinking how nice it is to know he could still crush Sam’s hand like a rotten egg despite having been born 32 years earlier. Al is 94 today, and still delivers his completed MAD assignments to the offices by hand, and they are still as… READ MORE
Can you believe I have basically lived my whole live almost a stone’s throw from the Canadian border, and have never been to Canada! Well, that all ends next week when I invade the Great White North for the Toronto ComiCon. I’ll be appearing all three days of the show at the National Cartoonists Society booth, space #117. Also appearing there will be the creator of the syndicated comic strip “Between Friends” Sandra Bell-Lundy, and possibly some other NCS cartoonists. I’ll have my usual plethora of original MAD artwork, prints, copies of my book, some new mini-prints (!) and other fun stuff… plus I’ll be… READ MORE
Back in 1962, MAD‘s Mort Drucker illustrated a satirical coloring book about the Kennedy clan called the “JFK Coloring Book”. It was a brilliant piece of satire written by Paul Laikin and Jackie Kannon, making fun of a president who was wildly popular and bucking conventional wisdom. It spent 14 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller’s list. Then came the assassination, and the book was pulled from bookstores and never saw print again… until now. Actually the reprint took place last September, but I just found out about it through a MAD fan group. I have a vintage copy I got from eBay… READ MORE
The cover of Broadcasting and Cable magazine, Aug 1999. Airbrush and watercolor for a cover story on new syndicated talk shows. Depicted left to right: Martin Short, Richard Simmons, Tia Carrere, Louie Anderson, ??? and Queen Latifah. I have no clue who the blonde lady is with the microphone raised up in the center. She must have debuted a syndicated TV talk show in 1999, but as I have long lost the actual magazine (just have the cover tear sheet), I can’t remember who she was. This was sixteen years ago… that’s a lot of ink, paint, and scotch under the bridge. UPDATE: Two commenters… READ MORE
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