July 22nd, 2014 | Posted in News
Clicky to embiggen! Holy 50/50 cotton polyester blend, Batman! This year’s official NCS Comic-Con T-shirt is in honor of the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of the Caped Crusader! With artwork by Bill Amend, Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Jim Borgman, Jack Davis (!!), Jeff Keane, Rick Kirkman, Patrick McDonnell, Bill Morrison, Mike Peters, myself, Stan Sakai, Jerry Scott and Garry Trudeau, this is going to be a hot seller! The NCS will have them in both white and yellow, with a long sleeve option that has the illustrations also going down each sleeve! Visit the NCS booth #1307 at the San Diego Comic-Con and get this… READ MORE
July 21st, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
In honor of the National Cartoonists Society having Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D (along with illustrator Luke McGarry) signing autographs at the NCS booth on Thursday at the San Diego Comic-Con, here’s a look at all my art for the parody of “School of Rock” from MAD #438, Feb. 2004: Clicky any to embiggen… READ MORE
July 20th, 2014 | Posted in General
Q: When you are tasked to draw a front cover with dozens of faces on it (like the Obama inauguration number) WHERE do you start? I avoid such jobs like the plague because I find it too intimidating – trying to get everyone in is a nightmare! A: As it happens, I did a short tutorial on constructing crowd scenes a few years ago using that same “Obama Inauguration” image as the basis. Here it is: Constructing a Crowd Scene Tutorial I’m still not exactly sure how it happened, but somewhere along the line I ended up establishing the reputation of being able to “do… READ MORE
July 19th, 2014 | Posted in News
The National Cartoonists Society just released thier full signing schedule for San Diego Comic Con, which includes an appearance by Tenacious D aka Jack Black and Kyle Gass, with illustrator Luke McGarry, who will be there promoting their Festival Supreme show and signing limited edition posters of the event with art done by Luke! Here’s the full schedule: Wednesday, July 23 (Preview Night) 6 PM – 9 PM Greg Evans (Luann) Tom Richmond (MAD Magazine) Luke McGarry (Illustrator) Steve McGarry (Biographic, Kid City) Thursday, July 24 10 AM – 12 PM Greg Evans (Luann) Lex Fajardo (Kid Beowulf) Tom Richmond (MAD Magazine) 1 PM –… READ MORE
July 18th, 2014 | Posted in General
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July 18th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Paste Magazine has a terrific article on the incomparable Al Jaffee and the MAD feature he created and made famous… the “Fold-In”. Al talks about the thinking behind his favorite Fold-Ins from the last five decades. Go check it out. Incidentally, Al still does the Fold-In every issue. He still hand delivers the art to the MAD offices. He’s 93. READ MORE
July 17th, 2014 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
In 1994 I got a job through a design firm to do a cover illustration for the “Rolaids Relief Man Award Media Guide“, a 4 “x 9” booklet with the current year’s Major League Baseball relief pitchers statistics, put out by Rolaids in conjunction with their sponsorship of the MLB “Relief Man Award”. The cover usually featured caricatures of prominent relief pitchers and/or past award winners. The design firm angle was typical of smaller specialty publications, especially for sports teams or sponsors. They often hired a design firm to do the design and layout of the publication, and then the client would provide the content… READ MORE
July 16th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s SotW subject is Hannibal Lecter himself, Mads Mikkelsen. Digital study. READ MORE
