Had to work at Valleyfair today, and it was so %$#$@ hot and humid I didn’t want to work in my sketchbook. So, here’s an airbrushed color sample of my “Flo” caricature sketch of a week or so ago… READ MORE
I do a few illustrations a year for Penthouse, which I have no qualms about doing so long as I am not asked to do anything pornographic. This is something they understand and only give me a call when they need a humorous illustration for an article that isn’t too “blue”. They are really great to work with. The September issue has a full page illustration I did for a humorous article about why guys have “sex on the brain” i.e. it’s all some guys think about. Initially the art director wanted me to do an image of a guy with his brain coming out… READ MORE
I’ve gotten so many e-mails from people asking for help identifying the one or two pundits they can’t figure out in the above panel that I thought I’d just put together a “key” to all of them… so here ya go: Click for a closer look… Lawrence O’Donnell Monica Crowley Bernie Goldberg Jonathan Alter Joe Scarborough Ann Coulter Rudy Juliani Frank Luntz Fred Barnes Frank Rich Rich Lowry Steve McMahon Fareed Zakaria Joan Walsh Thomas Friedman Dana Perino Margaret Carlson Howard Dean Maureen Dowd Eugene Robinson Richard Wolffe Oliver North Newt Gingrich James Carville Pat Buchanan Sanjay Gupta Robert Reich Karl Rove Donna Brazile Paul… READ MORE
Q: When you’re doing a piece for MAD, where do you get your reference material? Does the movie company send you a variety of production stills? Do you just do an image search online? A: That process has changed a lot over the years, even in the relatively short time I have been with the magazine. Back in the old days when MAD sold close to (and once over) 2 million copies of each issue movie studios actually lobbied MAD to do a parody of their films. Not with bribe money of course, but by by sending them the press kits and even inviting their… READ MORE
Facebook is a really great resource for keeping in touch with family and friends… unless you let it get out of control. I originally started my Facebook page with the intention of having it a combination of personal and professional “friends”, so I never refused a friends request. Almost 2,500 friends later, it was starting to really become a headache. I was getting wall posts from people asking me to critique their work, was constantly being tagged in “photos” of people’s art so I would go there and take a look at it, I was tagged in notes that I had nothing to do with… READ MORE
I’ve operated a caricature concession business at the ValleyFair! amusement park in Shakopee, MN since 1991, and one thing that park has been missing is a real “character brand”… Disney of course has Mickey Mouse and co., Six Flags has the Warner Bros. cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as well as the DC Comics superheroes, Universal has the Hanna Barbera characters like Yogi Bear as well as Universal movie characters, a deal for comic strip characters, the Marvel Superheroes and now Harry Potter. Valleyfair had the Berenstein Bears and a couple of home grown characters called Colonel Ohmpa-pa and Chocolate Moose… no… READ MORE
Debuting today on the National Cartoonists Society website is Thursday “Member Spotlights”… brief looks at NCS members/ legends in cartooning. Fittingly enough, the first spotlight is on cartooning giant Milton Caniff, the namesake of the NCS’s “Milton Caniff Award” for lifetime achievement in cartooning. These spotlights are written by NCS member Leif Peng, and a new one will appear each Thursday on the NCS blog. I’ll be reminding folks to check them out… they are short and insightful glimpses into the work and behind the scenes careers of some great cartoonists and members of the National Cartoonists Society. As the library of spotlights grows you… READ MORE
Click for a closer look… This week’s sketch is a cop out… sorry. This was a pencil rough for a recent poster illustration of a goofy halloween party scene. I’ll post the final art sometime soon. READ MORE
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