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January 31st, 2011 | Posted in General

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Sunday Mailbag

January 30th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: On a lot of your drawings (sketch of the week) you type out the copy right symbol and your name. If someone wanted to “steal” it or “borrow” it, all they need to do is just PhotoShop it out, correct?? What’s the point of the copy right symbol?? You mean like this?: You are 100% right in that it would be very easy for even the most novice of PhotoShop users to remove that copyright symbol/credit and steal this or any image thus marked. Despite that fact, I started doing this a few years ago for 3 reasons: The Orphan Works Act– I’ve endlessly… READ MORE

New MAD Episodes Start Feb. 7th

January 28th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine

It looks like the second half of season one of the animated “MAD” on the Cartoon Network kicks off on Monday, Feb. 7th with a new episode that includes a segment I worked on called “Malcolm in the Middle Earth”. Be sure and toon in. I’ll post some images from the work I did after the segment has aired. READ MORE

The New Apple TV- A Review

January 27th, 2011 | Posted in It's All Geek to Me!

We digress from our constant blather about caricature, cartooning and illustration to talk about one of our other favorite subjects… gadgets! This year for Christmas The Lovely Anna got me the new Apple TV, Apple’s new incarnation of it’s “hobby” entertainment server for your living room. We have owned one of the original Apple TVs for a while now, and use it for The Animated Elizabeth‘s TV room where it works great for her demanding video needs associated with her autism. The new Apple TV is a big departure from the old model on many levels, but first here’s a little history of the Apple… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week

January 26th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

This week’s sketch is a quickie of “Aerosmith” frontman and new judge on television’s “American Idol”, Steven Tyler. READ MORE

A Final Hirschfeld Goodbye

January 25th, 2011 | Posted in News

The image above is one of my most prized possessions… a caricature of me by the great Al Hirschfeld. There was no intriguing or unique story behind how I got that piece of art. Not like the story behind my original Mort Drucker. I simply commissioned him to do it. As legendary as Hirschfeld was, he was still available to do personal commissions. Expensive, but a genuine treasure. Hirschfeld died in 2003 just 5 months shy of his 100th birthday. Almost 8 years after his passing, this month the last chapter in his amazing career is finally coming to a close. His widow, Louise Hirschfeld… READ MORE

Look! A Talking Rat!

January 24th, 2011 | Posted in News

Stephan and me in Tikrit, Iraq Stephan Pastis, the cartoonist behind the syndicated comic strip “Pearls Before Swine”, is a friend of mine. We’ve literally been to the wars together (okay, touring Iraq and Afghanistan with the USO isn’t exactly BEING in a war, but there was one going on around us to I’m going with that). Stephen once drew me into a Sunday “PBS” and I drew him into a MAD parody. He’s a talented guy and deserves all of his considerable success with the strip. Stephan has lately been working on animated shorts of his strip, and The Daily Cartoonist reported today that… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

January 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: What do you think of the problems that print publications are having these day? Do you think print is dying, and where do you think the publication industry goes from here? A: The world of publishing is in a transition right now from print to digital media. Will print go away completely? No, I don’t think it will, but digital content is becoming more and more important and will continue to do so. I think that as hardware become more and more sophisticated and portable, more and more consumers will be looking to find their content on devices like the iPad and the evolution… READ MORE

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