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Dancing Groot

September 21st, 2014 | Posted in General

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GncYQHBJIw[/youtube] I’m posting this for my kids, who loved this scene in “Guardians of the Galaxy”. READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag- Time on a MAD Job?

September 21st, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: The pages your draw for the TV and film parodies in MAD are very complex. How long does it take you to do that? A: As long as they give me. Actually it takes about 2 days per page. That’s from blank layout to final, colored art. Some pages go faster than others of course. It depends on the subject matter and how many caricatures or complex scenes are involved, but it always seems to even out to 2 days per page in the end. Of course, that’s just the actual art. I also spend some time researching the job (i.e. watching the show… READ MORE

Holy Brushwork, Batman!

September 19th, 2014 | Posted in General

Kind of busy right now so no time for much of a blog post today. Here’s another piece I had framed up at the same time I got the “Fools of Rock” piece done. Occasionally you get some nice perks for being president of the NCS, and this is one. If you call the great Jack Davis up and ask him if he’d be willing to do a drawing of Batman for the NCS’s Comic-Con T-shirt, and about a week later an original piece of art like this shows up in your mailbox, you get to hang it on your wall when the T-shirt production… READ MORE

Wall of Shame- Tenacious D!

September 18th, 2014 | Posted in Wall of Shame

The Wall of Shame has a new resident! This summer Jack Black and Kyle Gass signed autographs at the National Cartoonists Society booth at San Diego Comic Con along with illustrator Luke McGarry, promoting their summer charity music event. I took the opportunity to get them to sign an oversized print of my splash page from the MAD parody “Fools of Rock”, from MAD #438, Feb 2004. I printed a copy out for each of them. Probably used it to line their cat’s litter box. At least I got a nice piece for my studio wall! READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Adrian Peterson

September 17th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Watching this whole Adrian Peterson thing unfold here in Minnesota is sad, ugly and infuriating. If you haven’t seen it on the news, Peterson was indicted by a grand jury in Texas for beating one of his sons, a four year old, with a “switch” for arguing with one of his other sons over a video game. Pictures of the boy, taken about a week later when doctors in Minnesota examined him after he returned home from Texas, show horrific welts, broken skin and scabs over his legs, butt, scrotum and hands… the last of which were defensive wounds trying to protect himself. Peterson has… READ MORE

NCS Booth at New York Comic Con

September 16th, 2014 | Posted in News

  For the last 10 years or so the National Cartoonists Society has had a terrific booth at San Diego Comic-Con, but has appeared at no other comic conventions around the country. Thanks to a joint effort from the NCS and its charitable arm, the National Cartoonists Society Foundation, the 68 year old organization of professional cartoonists is stepping up its game in the convention world. As part of its mission of outreach to industry professionals and the general public, the NCS will start having a presence at several other major comic conventions, starting next month at the New York Comic Con. The NCS will… READ MORE

Monday MADness- Two Defectives!

September 15th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness

Rather than dig through a bunch of old stuff this week, I though I’d share the rough sketches I did for the recent parody of “True Detective” in MAD #528. Here they are, followed by the final art… clicky any to embiggen: Yes, these roughs were all done digitally using my super-sized Cintiq. Why digital, when I have repeatedly professed my dislike for drawing on the computer? There are a couple of compelling reasons. First, the very fact that I don’t enjoy the tactile sensation of drawing on the screen is a plus. It keeps me from becoming too enamored of the quality of the… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag- SotW Size?

September 14th, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: How big are your sketches of the week? A: That’s not a question with a real answer except for “almost any size”. I don’t keep a sketchbook proper, wherein I draw and then put away when it’s full. I have a couple of those but I just draw on whatever is at hand. I have a stack of 12 x 16 live caricature paper in a drawer by my drawing table, and I use this paper for most of my roughs, conceptual drawings and thumbnails for jobs as well as random sketches. I do a lot of my “sketches of the week” on that… READ MORE

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