This week’s sketch is a very quick warm-up doodle of actress Brooklyn Decker. I have no idea who Brooklyn Decker is or what shows she’s been in, but I ran across an interesting photo of her in a magazine that was begging to be drawn. READ MORE
My contribution to issue #504 was an expansion of the “Toyota Story” idea by writer Desmond Devlin. Originally I did the spoofed movie poster for the MAD website, so they had me revise the image to open the two additional pages of story. I had to make the car into more of an anthropomorphic character, as well as beat up the Toy Story characters a bit more. Here is the original image: Click for a closer look… And the revised one: Then there followed two pages of “story”, which I also did in a fully painted style… sort of a cross between the actual Pixar… READ MORE
On news stands June 16th and in comic book stores and subscriber mailboxes now! MAD # 504 (August 2010) Cover (Scott Nickel, Mark Frederickson) The Fundalini Pages (Dave Croatto, P.C. Vey, Jacob Lambert, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Tom Bunk, Jeff Kruse, Charles Akin, Darren Johnson, Gary Hallgren, Ryan Pagelow, Sam Viviano, Duck Edwing, Paul Coker, Kiernan P. Schmitt, Bob Staake ) MAD Rates the iPad (John Caldwell) Toyota Story (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) Beiber Versus… (Some Photos via Dreamstime.com) A MAD Look at the Twilight Saga (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Tom Luth) The MAD World of… Lying and Cheating (Stan Sinberg, Marc Hempel) The A-Hole Team (Uncredited)… READ MORE
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVd_ugGKef4[/youtube] A few years ago I linked to a number of videos by comedian, impressionist and caricature artist Piotr Walczuk. Piotr (pronouned “Pee-aht”). I thought it was about time to post one of his more recent ones. Piotr was given the rare opportunity to audition for Saturday Night Live last year… something almost any comedian is dying to get a chance at. His impressions are…well, IMPRESSIVE. It’s fascinating to watch his face and mannerisms take on the look of the people he is imitating. He’s a darn good caricaturist as well. After hanging out with Piotr last year at the San Diego Comic Con, he… READ MORE
Uh oh! Looks like the mailbag is empty! Actually I have several mailbag questions that deal with drawing hair, but that is more suited for a tutorial and not really for the mailbag. My apologies to those who sent the hair inquiries… I hope to get to that as a tutorial one of these days. Otherwise I am fresh out of questions. When I get some fresh questions concerning cartooning, illustration, freelancing, MAD Magazine or other similar subjects I’ll be happy to answer them as best I can. E-mail me your questions and I’ll try and answer them here! READ MORE
Beginning this week I’ve decided to henceforth take Saturdays off of posting on The MAD Blog. There are decidedly fewer visitors on Saturdays and it will give me more time to work on a good Sunday Mailbag each week. Plus I get to sleep in. So, it’s with great regret I must apologize to my faithful Saturday readers for no longer giving them something to enjoy as they begin their weekend: Sorry, Mom. READ MORE
Over on the WashingtonPost.com’s terrific cartooning and comic’s blog Comic Riffs, Michael Cavna writes an open letter to “Amercia’s Documentarian” Ken Burns suggesting he film a documentary about cartooning in Amercia… and the sooner the better for several reasons: First, the state of the American cartoon is in such tremendous flux: Staff political cartoonists have been disappearing from the newsroom landscape quite precipitously in recent years, as the American newsroom itself has been remade for deeply transitional times. The American newspaper comic strip, to put it simply, is seeing great change in terms of syndication and online delivery. The New Yorker is a bastion for… READ MORE
For the last few NCS Reubens the awards program has kicked off with a short video… often featuring Jeff Keane (The Family Circus) in drag. This year featured not one, not two but THREE videos. The first features Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Jeff Keane (The Family Circus and current NCS President), Jerry Scott (Baby Blues, Zits), Bill Hinds (Tank McNamara, Cleats), Mark Tatulli (Lio, Heart of the City), Sean Parkes (humorous illustrator) and Tom Gammill (screenwriter and The Doozies): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlUXVPjyEgA[/youtube] The second is a video by the incomparable Tom Gammill, detailing his quest to find a good seat at the Reuben dinner. It also… READ MORE
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