June 18th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
According to this article on NorthJersey.com, a new documentary on the career of the late, great Will Elder screened at the 2010 Toronto Jewish Film Festival back in April to a “pleasantly surprising” turnout. “The Mad Playboy of Art” takes a look inside the life and career of Will Elder, one of the principal founding artists for MAD Magazine and long time collaborator with Harvey Kurtzman. The film is being made by Elder’s son-in-law Gary VandenBergh. From the article: VandenBergh said that Elder was an artist who set the tone for the visual perspective role at Mad Magazine, a bi-monthly satirical magazine, which began as… READ MORE
June 17th, 2010 | Posted in General
The Huffington Post has an article/slideshow posted on their website called Street Portraits Gone Wrong: The Funniest Caricature Drawings Ever featuring thirteen different examples they found of caricatures that the artist “got wrong”. I know many of the artists who did these drawings. Here are some samples: This one is a Joe Bluhm This is by Dorney Park, PA artist Chris Chua This one is by Chris Rommel See all thirteen and vote on the one with the most “WTF?” on the Huntington Post website. Poor Chris has four different samples in that slideshow. The funny thing is that several of these are terrific caricatures,… READ MORE
June 16th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
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
June 15th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
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
June 14th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
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
June 14th, 2010 | Posted in General
[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
June 13th, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
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
June 12th, 2010 | Posted in General
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
