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February 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I am beyond swamped after both my vacation and my unexpected two day layover in Phoenix, so this will have to do as “Sketch o’the Week” this week. This is one of the panels from my parody of “Mad Men” in MAD #508, sketched on bristol board prior to inking. This panel features Jessica Par?¬© as Megan and Jon Hamm as Don. Hopefully MAD will finally let me post a sneak peek at the artwork soon. The issue is out and has been for weeks, but there is some kind of special something or another going on with it and they asked me to wait… READ MORE
February 22nd, 2011 | Posted in News
The official ballots have been issued to all professional members of the National Cartoonists Society, and the nominees for the Reuben Award for “Cartoonist of the Year” are: Glen Keane Stephan Pastis Richard Thompson Glen Keane is an animator, author, illustrator and director who’s credits include The Little Mermaid (Ariel), Aladdin (Aladdin), Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Tarzan (Tarzan) and most recently Tangled (Rapunzel) for Walt Disney Studios. He has recieved the received the 1992 Annie Award for character animation and the 2007 Winsor McCay Award for lifetime contribution to the field of animation. This is Glen’s first nomination Stephan Pastis is the artist/writer/creator of¬¨‚Ć… READ MORE
February 21st, 2011 | Posted in General
…in Phoenix for almost 48 hours on our way back from vacation. Thanks to mechanical problems with our flight out of Hawaii and a 3 hour delay there we missed our connection out of Phoenix to Minneapolis. Thanks to the winter storms back home and hundreds of canceled flights in and out of Minneapolis/St. Paul, the earliest flight back home for us was the red-eye at 12:55 am… TUESDAY. In the immortal words of Alfred E. Neuman: “ECCCCHHHH!” READ MORE
February 20th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Like yourself I prefer to ink and scan. I do use a digital pen for all the colouring, washes and so forth but for the fine detail of the lining I prefer the real thing. So, I notice not all of your artwork is black outlined, some of your work you colour the lining to match the area it is next to, so perhaps a brown for the lining around the skin, blue for jeans, gray for hair and so on. So my question is, do you alter the colour of the lines in Photoshop or do you use inks or paints on paper… READ MORE
February 19th, 2011 | Posted in News
I had another short article about myself in yet another local suburban newspaper, this time the Sun Current: Burnsville cartoonist goes MAD – and beyond This one has quotes from MAD art director Sam Viviano and The Lovely Anna! And they didn’t even slam me! The article should have been in the Friday print edition. So, why the local news interest? It’s because of the recent press releases sent out by The Cartoonists Studio website, which had it’s “hard” opening recently and as one of the cartoonists in their collective I was part of that press release. READ MORE
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in General
… that for once I didn’t bring any work along with me on vacation? I lied a little. READ MORE
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in General
MAD and other magazines subscriptions on the iPad are still a long way off… Apple’s recent announcement of a subscription service within their App store seems like a step in the right direction towards the digital delivery of magazines and newspapers on iPad or similar devices, but as many are pointing out their business model is unworkable. Back when the iPad came out, I wrote this post about how I saw the future of magazines and newspapers being tied to tablet devices like the iPad and it’s successors. The portability, form factor and ease of delivery of content solved most if not all of the… READ MORE
February 16th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Since I am on vacation (and for once didn’t bring any work with me so no scanner or Cintiq)¬¨‚Ć this installment of “Sketch o’the Week” was drawn on the iPad using Sketchbook Pro. Subject: Liam Neeson. Drawn with my finger as I have none of those weird styluses with the marshmallow ends. Verdict: meh. Give me a pencil anyday. READ MORE
