I know I’m supposed to be drawing the various Doctors from Doctor Who, but I just pulled two all-nighters in a row and I don’t have the energy. Tomorrow will be a bonus SotW of the Third Doctor. In the meantime, here’s one of Bill “Bubba” Clinton from a very recent job. READ MORE
I did the cover of the latest issue of the UTNE Reader, now on news stands. The folks at UTNE favor my “colored line” style, as I used is a few previous covers for them. Here’s a peek behind the scenes of this freelance project. The job: design and illustrate a cover depicting how President Obama’s immigration reform policies are contradictory, both making easier and harder to become a legal immigrant. The editors wanted a large wall on the border with a crowd trying to get in, and Obama looking like he’s welcoming them but still has the wall. The proplem was they wanted me… READ MORE
Yesterday was the season premier of AMC’s “MAD MEN” (which I didn’t watch because I was working on a deadline), so this week’s “Monday MADness” is my art to MAD‘s parody of the show from MAD #508, written by Arnie Kogen (clicky on any to embiggen): READ MORE
Q: Do you alter your approach in any way when your subject is effectively “pre-caricatured”, like, for example, UK Energy Minister John Hayes? A: I guess that depends on what you mean by “pre-caricatured”. I would take that to mean one of the following: The subject has so many obvious features to exaggerate that a caricature is almost superfluous. The subject has been caricatured by others so often that their caricature has become a clich?¬©. Some specific caricature you have seen of the subject influences your own caricature. Based on your example, I would assume you mean the first one, but I’ll answer all three… READ MORE
I’ll be doing a short talk and signing copies of my book The Mad Art of Caricature! tomorrow (Sat. April 6th) at 2:00 pm at the Burnhaven Library in my hometown of Burnsville, MN. I am hopeful that tens of people will show up. I am also hopeful no one at the library will check my library card account and find out about that copy of Lady Chatterly’s Lover I’ve had checked out since 1982. READ MORE
I was sad to hear that well-known film critic Roger Ebert passed away today at age 70, after a long battle with cancer. I always liked his take on films, and while I did¬¨‚Ć not agree with them all the time, they were always presented with just the right amount of wit, sometimes of the sharp-tongued variety. He was also a long-time fan of MAD. Here’s a quote from his forward from the book MAD About the Movies: “I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine… Mad’s parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin…of the way a movie might… READ MORE
Yesterday Entertainment Weekly released an exclusive sneak peek at the cover of MAD #521, check it out here. As you can see, MAD will be pillaging Game of Thrones, which I did not do the art for… and also exercising their license to kill on “James Bond”, which I DID do the art for! Is it a parody of Skyfall? A spoof of all 50 years of 007 movies? Gratuitous caricatures of half naked Bond girls? You’ll have to wait for the issue to hit the stands to find out! Fa Fa Fa! READ MORE
Here we have doctor number two in our ongoing series of caricatures of the actors who have played the good doctor on the classic sci-fi series “Doctor Who” in honor of its 50th anniversary. . . this one played by Patrick Troughton. By the way, I have to thank my good friend and ?¬?ber-talented cartoonist/animator Eddie Pittman for giving me a wealth of inside info on the doctors. Incidentally, if you are not reading his outstanding webcomic Red’s Planet, then you are really missing out on something special. There is a permanent link to the comic on my blogroll on the right. Next week: Doctor… READ MORE
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