This week’s sketch is a quick study of teen star Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana. I did this last week in my sketchbook as a prelude to one I did of her for a recent job. READ MORE
Click image for a closer look… Here’s what’s cooking on the drawing board right now: Workplace Poster Illustration– My usual monthly assignment. As promised the final of the last poster in posted above. Movie Poster– This keeps getting put on hold but I should be finishing it up this week. It’s a poster for a documentary film by the director of Super Capers, the movie I did some animated illustration for. I also did several character designs for some CGI animated segments in the film and storyboarded those scenes. Animated TV Show Pilot– A political humor show I am doing more character designs for and… READ MORE
High-resolution images of the stamps are available for media use only by emailing mark.r.saunders@usps.gov From the US Postal Service: “Sunday Funnies’ Comic Strips Get Stamp of Approval What: First-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony of the Sunday Funnies 44-cent Commemorative First-Class stamps. The event is free and open to the public. When: 10:30 a.m., Friday, July 16, 2010 Where: The Ohio State University Performance Hall at the Ohio Union 1739 High Street Columbus, OH 43210-1393 Who: Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee Curator and professor The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Lucy Shelton Caswell USPS President, Mailing and Shipping Services Robert F. Bernstock… READ MORE
Q: I live in St. Louis and I used to frequent Union Station quite a bit. I would always make a point to stop at your caricature stand and watch the artist. I was wondering if you may go over the types of materials that you use at your stands? A: For those readers who may not know I own several caricature concession operations in a few different states including at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, MO. I used to own a stand at St. Louis Union Station in downtown St. Louis but sold the business to my manager at the end of 2009.… READ MORE
It’s a busy day in the Richmond household today as my daughter, The Dramatic Victoria, graduates with honors from Eastview High School. She has taken home many honors during her high school years, including being in the National Honor Society and National German Honor Society, winning the Presidential Academic Award, lettering in academics and choir, selection to Minnesota All-State Choir, superior ratings in vocal music performance, parts in all the fantastic musicals put on by Eastview, selection to the Lake Conference choir and the highly regarded Eastview Chamber Choir. Despite all that she is looking forward to saying goodbye to high school and will be… READ MORE
MAD #504 officially goes on sale on June 15th, but MAD must have released a sneak peek as these pages by the great Sergio Aragon?¬©s popped up on the internet yesterday on various Twilight fan websites: Click for a closer look… Click for a closer look… Surprisingly most of the Twilight fans loved it, judging by the comments I read. I guess they don’t take their beloved books/movies/cult too seriously after all. I have a short piece in #504 that was quite a lot of work to pull off… definitely outside my comfort zone. I’ll share once the issue hits comic book stores, which will… READ MORE
An updated tribute from a previous post a few years ago: Today is a sad anniversary. Eighteen years ago today MAD founder and longtime publisher William M. Gaines passed away at the age of 70. Working for MAD is great. The people and staff there really respect the tradition and history of the magazine. However I will always feel that I missed out on something special in that I never met or knew Bill Gaines. I started for MAD about 9 years after Bill’s passing. While MAD has of course continued since his death a chapter of it’s history closed on June 3rd, 1992. In… READ MORE
Click image for a closer look… Yikes. How can my being gone from the studio for one week result in three weeks worth of work to catch up on??? And I even worked on a job the first few days I was in New Jersey for the Reubens… oh well. It’s a good problem to have these days, even if it means life is about to become very complicated. Sadly this means another cop out on the Sketch o’the Week. This week will have to be a rough of a recent job… this being one of those workplace poster illustrations. I’ll post the finishes sometime… READ MORE
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