The Lovely Anna and I are off today on our 25th anniversary dream trip. I have a few posts scheduled to go for the next week or so, and I might check in from Italia if I get the chance. Otherwise, Ci vediamo a ottobre! READ MORE
The Studio Store on my website has been an afterthought for a long time now, but no longer! I just had it redone and it is now a complete merchant solution, allowing anyone to order any of my junk, pay via PayPal or a credit card (through PayPal), choose various shipping options, etc. It took a long time to program all the various international shipping options for each item in, but things seem to be working well. One big benefit as far as shipping goes is the site will work with USPS’s API and calculate actual shipping costs when services are available for that particular… READ MORE
Most of these are in progress already but I’ve got a lot to get done before I depart on Saturday for Italia: CN MAD Show episode– This one is for the upcoming 100th episode in November! Brochure Cover Art– This is for a scientific event program of some kind, and features caricatures of Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and Salvador Dali (!). An interesting project and one I will write about due to a certain aspect of it I sometimes run up against Marlin poster– My usual monthly assignment Jeff Dunham Illustrations– Doing a few of these for Jeff for some products Penthouse “Dave Navarro” Spot… READ MORE
I had so much fun drawing Jeff Daniels from “The Newsroom” a few weeks ago that I decided to take a shot at another cast member from that show, Alison Pill. I wish I had seen Alison here a few years ago when I was writing my book, because she is a perfect example of my “lines of force” theory for caricature. A central theme with caricature is the fact that a face has a fixed amount of entropy between all its elements. When you exaggerate the relationship (distance, size, angle) between some features, whatever you did needs to be balanced in another area to… READ MORE
… of the scheduled posts feature on my blog that is supposedly fixed. If you are reading this. it’s fixed and all is right with the world. If you are not reading this, I am currently cursing Go Daddy, WordPress, the Internets, Al Gore, Steve Jobs, Miley Cyrus (just because) and technology in general. READ MORE
I’m currently working on an episode of the MAD show on the Cartoon Network, this one for the show’s upcoming 100th episode! Here’s some designs I did for an earlier episode of season four entitled, “Dog with a Captains Log”… you can see the full clip on the CN website. READ MORE
That’s Italian for “Buy my Stuff!” One week from today will mark 25 years since The Lovely Anna and I walked down the aisle and became husband and wife. I’ll have a bit more on that when the big day arrives, but only if I can figure out how to fix the “scheduled posts” feature of my blog as it’s broken right now and I won’t be home. In fact, Anna and I will be in Venice having dinner overlooking the lagoon on a fabulous eleven day tour of Italy that evening… a dream trip of ours we’ve been saving up for for a long… READ MORE
Seems like a long time since I’ve done one of these… every (supposedly) Monday I try and post some MAD related art or tid-bit no one has seen on the blog before. Sometimes it’s all the pencil roughs from a project, or something behind-the-scenes, or just some cool thing MAD has got going, like a book project or some such. Today’s Monday MADness is something that demonstrates I am either losing my mind or have been in this business too long. It’s a caricature of TV talk show host Conan O’Brien I did for MAD back in 2010… my apologies for the LONG post: The… READ MORE
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