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Sketch o’the Week- Channing Tatum

February 13th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Still under the gun today so my Sketch o’the Week is a very quick study of a guy who desperately needs a real name, Channing Tatum. READ MORE

As a big fan of The Beatles and John Lennon, I’m happy to say a piece of my artwork is part of a new ebook entitled A Lennon Pastiche: Expressions from Fans of John Lennon, now available for download exclusively for the iPad. From the iTunes Bookstore: A Lennon Pastiche: Expressions from Fans of John Lennon is a fully immersive, interactive opus, chockful of art, music and poetry, culled from fans around the world. This is a pastiche, not a pistachio: there’s a m?¬©lange of music, a potpourri of paintings, a welter of words, a variety of videos, and a cornucopia of crazy stuff! This… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

February 10th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: I love your background people. They all have distinct personalities. Do you keep files on faces, or just make them up? A: I know I have told this story a few times on the blog, but one of the most valuable pieces of advice I ever got on my cartooning came, independently,¬¨‚Ä† from longtime MAD editor Nick Meglin and longtime MAD artist (and now fairly longtime MAD art director) Sam Viviano. Both told me that there was a disconnect in my early work between the caricatures I did of specific actors and the drawings I did of people who were not specific people but… READ MORE

WANT!!

February 8th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Holy Veeblefetzer, Batboy! This gigantic 22″x 15″ coffee table book,¬¨‚Ä†Tales Calculated to Drive You MAD: Artist’s Edition is an absolute level 11- I GOTTA HAVE IT on a scale of 1-10 on the “Stuff Tom Wants” meter. I had no idea this was on the horizon, or I would have pre-ordered it long ago. The book features “nearly 20 incredible stories and a dozen classic covers” with at least one thing representing every issue of MAD from #1 to #18.¬¨‚Ä† That sort of thing has been done many times, but this edition is unique because the art within is scanned from the actual original art… READ MORE

Shipping Cost Increase for Book Orders

February 7th, 2013 | Posted in News

When I got back from my little vacation this week I had a whole pile of books to ship, and in the process of buying and printing postage labels I got a nasty surprise . . . the United States Postal Service had jacked up the price of International Priority Mail shipping…by a LOT. It used to cost me $16.95 to ship a book via a USPS International Priority Flat Rate Envelope. New cost: $24.95!! That’s nearly a 50% increase! Canada shipping went from $12.95 to $19.95. That’s OVER 50%!!! I don’t charge anything for handling, other than rounding the cost up to the whole… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week

February 6th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Better late than never today, even if I am doing another of my shameless plugs for the Limited Artist’s Edition of my book, complete with a caricature of YOU (or the person of your choice) drawn by me in a signed, numbered, limited-to-120-editions copy. To make it up to you, I will make this into a little lesson. Below is the main reference pic I used to draw Jayce here, and below that are the observations I made about his face, with corresponding mark-ups on the photo. Overall head shape: Long. Need to elongate head and the correspondingly narrow face. Narrow bridge of nose,… READ MORE

MAD Documentary: Funded!

February 6th, 2013 | Posted in News

Way to go, Interwebs! The “When We Went MAD!” documentary Kickstarter made their goal early this morning, jumping up a little under $10,000 in one day…all from hundreds of individual supporters who either pledged or beefed up the pledge they’d already made. This film is really going to happen. Congrats to Alan Bernstein and co-producer Doug Gilford! Thanks to everybody who pledged! READ MORE