May 12th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
For something a little different, this week is a peek behind the scenes of a cover job I did for the now defunct MAD Kids magazine: MAD art director Sam Viviano warned me that a cover job would be a little different, and he was not kidding. Often when doing feature stuff the editors give the artists a lot of leeway to have fun and add something to the proceedings. They are still very specific about certain things and definitely demand changes when needed, but covers are very different. These are highly scrutinized and the process is reviewed at each step much more closely and… READ MORE
May 11th, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: There are foreign editions of MAD, for instance in Germany. They often translate articles of MAD, but there are also contributions from local artists. Do you have any contact to these foreign artists? Is there something like a meeting of international MAD artist once and a while? A: There are still a number of foreign editions of MAD being published, although not as many as there once was. It’s my understanding that they license the MAD brand and a certain amount of the US edition’s material and then produce their own content using local creators and (presumably) more local topics to make fun of.… READ MORE
May 9th, 2014 | Posted in General
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May 8th, 2014 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I’m stealing a page from Facebook and will occasional do a “Throwback Thursday” feature here on the blog… but not adorable pictures of me as a toddler. Rather, I’ll try and post some really early work of mine.¬¨‚Ć This is my very first published magazine illustration. Yikes. Everything’s lumpy… This was circa 1991. I had been doing comic book pencils for NOW Comics for a year or two, and had freshly moved back to Minnesota from Atlanta when I received a phone call from Kyle Peterson, a friend of mine from art college. He had become an associate art director at MSP Communications, a local… READ MORE
May 7th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
More “Game of Thrones” caricatures this week. I’m too busy for more than a quick digital study today of the late Stark patriarch Ned Stark as portrayed by Sean Bean. READ MORE
May 6th, 2014 | Posted in General
Things are reaching emergency proportions in the studio… Posting might be sparse for a while. READ MORE
May 5th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at the pencil roughs (and finals) of a feature entitled “A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at Celebrity Poker Showdown” written by Desmond Devlin, Steve Rosso, David Shayne and John Caldwell from MAD #452, April 2005. Sharp eyed viewers will spot some MAD related characters in the audience. Clicky any to embiggen… READ MORE
May 4th, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I have to admit that I am a little disappointed because I thought that just maybe Mad would have done a satire of the movie “Gravity”.¬¨‚Ć The movie was a big hit and quite notable (notable enough to warrant a Sergio Aragones piece in #526) and certainly worthy of the satirical minds at Mad to shred to pieces.¬¨‚Ć A miss on the magazine’s part, I felt.¬¨‚Ć And that got me wondering.¬¨‚Ć Have you ever considered simply doing your own satire of a movie or TV show that Mad ignored to satisfy your own wish to see that movie or TV show skewered?¬¨‚Ć Nothing like… READ MORE
