November 5th, 2010 | Posted in News
Another group of cartoonists are off soon (at an indisposed date and time… I’d tell you specifics but they are above your pay grade) to the middle east to draw for U.S. soldiers deployed “down range” i.e. in the war zone. This group includes Jeff Keane (The Family Circus), Rick Kirkman (Baby Blues) Mike Luckovich (Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonist), Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) and myself.. clearly they have me along to make the coffee. We’ll have a stop in Landstuhl, Germany to draw at the Regional Medical Center and the Ramstein AFB there before heading on to a new area… READ MORE
November 4th, 2010 | Posted in General
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November 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Rough concept sketch featuring Dave Navarro for a recent spot illustration job. READ MORE
November 2nd, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here are a couple of the characters I did for last night’s episode of MAD: READ MORE
November 1st, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I did some work on tonight’s episode of MAD on the Cartoon Network, specifically for a segment called “Ben 10 Franklin”… kind of an odd one as I really didn’t do any caricatures for it unless you count long dead presidents. I’ll share some of that work tomorrow. READ MORE
October 31st, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I see that full sized Batman in the pictures of your studio. Is that really a costume? Where did you get that awesome suit? A: I get at least one of these every year as Halloween approaches. Here is one of the pictures in question: And yes, it’s costume: That’s me!… I’m Batman. It’s an exact replica of the Val Kilmer “Panther” style suit from “Batman Forever”… complete with nipples :mad:. You can read all about how I put this together, along with lots of other pictures on this post: The Saga of the Batsuit. READ MORE
October 29th, 2010 | Posted in General
The great Sergio Aragon?¬©s is celebrating 50 years as a professional cartoonist, which since 1963 include his contributions to MAD Magazine. The Huffington Post has an artcile about Sergio and his new book MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragon?¬©s: Five Decades of His Finest Works (which, BTW, is as fantastic as you would expect). Congratulations mi amigo… and here’s to many more years! READ MORE
October 28th, 2010 | Posted in News
I’ve been remiss in linking to the weekly “NCS Member Spotlight” over on the website of the National Cartoonists Society that gets posted every Thursday. Put together by NCS Member Leif Peng, these are short retrospectives of the work of some of the long standing members of the Society… well worth a look. This week’s Spotlight is on commercial/advertising cartoonist Roy Doty. Last week’s was on the legendary Jack Davis. READ MORE
