February 21st, 2015 | Posted in News
Doud Gilford was so moved by the outpouring of sadness over the closing of his incredible MAD Cover Site that he has reinstated it! Hooray for all of MAD fandom, and a humongous THANK YOU to Doug for keeping this institution alive. From the MCS: Because my act of removing the site has been likened to a crime against humanity, because researchers are being left in the lurch in the middle of their books, films, and websites, because I’ve been taken aback by the outpouring of genuine love and well-wishing through too many correspondences, I hereby reinstate Doug Gilford’s Mad Cover Site for who knows… READ MORE
February 20th, 2015 | Posted in General
Another illustration/sketch from my book, this one is of Matt Damon done in watercolor. READ MORE
February 19th, 2015 | Posted in General
Another piece of art from my 2011 book The Mad Art of Caricature. READ MORE
February 18th, 2015 | Posted in General
So, rather than post nothing for the next week, I am going to post various caricatures from my book. Most are former “Sketch o’the Week” drawings I then did a little digital wash on. Here’s Katie Couric. READ MORE
February 17th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to embiggen… Uproxx.com’s Gamma Squad just released a sneak peek of the splash page of the parody of “House of Cards”, written by David Shayne and drawn by me (but, of course, Uproxx doesn’t mention that). You can read the rest of the parody in MAD #532, due on newsstands next Tuesday! READ MORE
February 17th, 2015 | Posted in General
Seriously paying the price for too many irons in the fire. Sleep and free time may be precious quantities for a while. Carry on. READ MORE
February 16th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD Magazine fandom lost a really fantastic source of joy and MAD scholars lost a really fantastic resource this past weekend when the MAD Cover Site shut its digital doors forever. All that’s left of its seemingly endless MAD data is a placeholder. The MAD Cover Site was the individual effort of one person, MAD Superfan Doug Gilford. Doug started it on Aug 17th, 1997 as part of the late Dick Hanchette‘s Collectmad.com website. It began as a collection of scans of the all the covers of MAD through the years, along with a list of each issues highlights (or lowlights depending on your perspective).… READ MORE
February 15th, 2015 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I there any part of a project you DON’T like to draw? In other words do you find it anathema to draw anything mechanical or architectural or anything otherwise mundane. — such as animals or cars or trees, etc.? Similarly, do you have concerns when drawing perspectives, foreshortening, etc.? A: Not really. Drawing mechanical things like buildings or cars is a little different from drawing organic things like plants or people only because the latter requires more rigid order with the forms and the former is more fluid and…uh… “organic” is really the only adjective that applies. Both are just things that are are… READ MORE
