February 4th, 2011 | Posted in General
It’s half universal truth and half industry punchline that veteran artists often lament that “they just don’t make art supplies like they used to”. Younger artists usually roll their eyes, but just wait about 1o years, whippersnapper. When some art supply or tool that you have been using for a long time suddenly becomes discontinued or the manufacturing process with it changes so it doesn’t perform as you have been used to, it can drive you crazy. Creating is a personal process and there is nothing more frustrating than when something you previously relied on to do this suddenly refused to do it and instead… READ MORE
February 3rd, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
©2010 MAD Magazine and E.C. Publications, used with permission MAD #508 is hot off the presses and will be showing up in mailboxes and news stands soon… I’ll post a table of contents and some sneak peeks of my contribution to the issue when that date gets closer. One thing readers will find in this latest issue is a call for some birthday love for the great Al Jaffee… he of the fold-ins, snappy answers and lots of other cartoony goodness over the last five decades or so in MAD. Al turns 90 on March 13th. Here’s what you’ll find in MAD #508 on the… READ MORE
February 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Didn’t get the “Sketch o’the Week” posted until 7:20 pm… it’s been one of those weeks. I try to avoid doing caricatures of reality TV show actors stars people, mainly because IMO 99.9% of them don’t deserve a moment of fame. Almost all of them have only one skill to boast of, and that is the ability to somehow get in front of a camera. Unfortunately it seems the publications I usually go to get references for pop culture subjects do not agree, and page after page are filled with pictures of reality “stars”. This week I gave in and did a caricature of Khloe… READ MORE
February 1st, 2011 | Posted in General
Feels kinda like a Monday… READ MORE
January 31st, 2011 | Posted in General
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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
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
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
