April 11th, 2012 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
And now for something completely different . . . a dog. It is quite possible to caricature animals. In fact, animals have a lot of personality and expression which can be a lot of fun to capture. You need only look at some of the great Disney and other studio’s animation of animal characters to see that. The first sketch is a fairly straight drawing of a miniature pincher, with just a little bit of exaggeration. The second exaggerates a lot more. READ MORE
April 10th, 2012 | Posted in Wall of Shame
Clicky to Embiggen This landed on my doorstep the other day, and will take its place on my Wall of Shame as soon as I can get it framed up. It’s a print of my splash page for the MAD parody of Mike & Molly, as seen in issue #514…signed by the cast and creators! Left half- Top and Clockwise: Billy Gardell Mark Roberts (Creator/Executive Producer) Melissa McCarthy David Higgins Don Foster (Executive Producer) Right half- Top row: Jimmy Burrows (Director) Rondi Reed Right half- Middle row: Katy Mixon Cleo King Right half- Bottom row: Louis Mustillo Nyambi Nyambi Reno Wilson Swoosie Kurtz … and… READ MORE
April 9th, 2012 | Posted in General
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April 8th, 2012 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: What do you think about MAD’s finally attempting a real online presence with their website and new app? IMO they have sorely neglected this, and it may be too little too late. A: In the last several years I’ve often heard comments about how lousy MAD‘s website was, how they didn’t have anything worth looking at online and how behind the times they were. This usually came from people who didn’t buy or read the magazine, by the way. To say that MAD was “behind the times” is totally inaccurate. In fact, MAD was far ahead of it’s time in terms of the web.… READ MORE
April 6th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Entertainment Weekly.com just posted an exclusive first look at MAD #515’s parody of The Hunger Games movie, with art by me and written by Desmond Devlin. Go check out the sneak peek, which includes two more pages of the parody! The issue will be on newsstands (and in the new iMad app) on April 24th. READ MORE
April 5th, 2012 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Clicky to Embiggen… Lot’s going on right now! Just wrapping up a two pager for Sports Illustrated Kids this morning NBA illustration project Cover to a very cool graphic novel New MAD TV parody- 6 pages Several spot illustrations for Jeff Dunham Art for a segment of the MAD show on Cartoon Network (still waiting on full details) Another Marlin Co. poster Plus I am off today to open up my caricature operation at Six Flags St. Louis for the season. Whew. Above is a recent Marlin workplace poster illustration, and here’s another, plus the pencil roughs for both: READ MORE
April 4th, 2012 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Quick warm-up sketch of The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence. She looks very different in her role in this film than in other films. She obviously had lost some weight as her character is… well… HUNGRY a lot. She has these amazing cheekbones and smoky, sleepy eyes, but her face is very round with a tendency toward a baby fat look. READ MORE
April 3rd, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As promised, on Sunday DC Entertainment and MAD Magazine released the MAD iPad app (which I am unofficially calling iMad, so no lawsuits, Apple!) Here’s a hands-on tour of the new app: Getting Started First off, while it is an “app”, it downloads into the Apple “Newsstand” area, not directly on to the iPad pages, which makes sense. On the Newsstand! Looks lonely… I may have to subscribe to other magazines. Do they still make Tigerbeat? Once you open the app, you are asked if you want push notifications when a new issue is available (I said yes), and then you are taken to a… READ MORE
