Okay, this might just be the ultimate toy for the Trekkie/Trekker/Total Star Trek Geek… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_3rB7uyEMc[/youtube] A WORKING phaser?!? Wow. I’m not even a very big Trek fan and I think that is on a whole ‘nother level of cool. READ MORE
Legendary war cartoonist Bill Mauldin is being honored with a stamp from the United State Postal Service. The stamp gets released sometime this month. Mauldin’s cartoons, often featuring his characters Willie and Joe, were honest and supportive of the enlisted soldiers defending the country during World War II while making fun of the brass, which endeared him to millions of “regular guys”. They told real stories of the front lines and the difficulties our soldiers endured using humor, which comforted both the G.I.’s and the people back home who loved them. I only met Mauldin once, at my first National Cartoonists Society Reubens in 1999… READ MORE
Q: I was wondering what you could share on the importance of style in caricatures. Your work for MAD, differs greatly from say, Stephen Silver’s more cartoony style, David Cowles’ more abstract work, and Jason Seiler’s paintings. Are all styles equally in demand in publishing? Is having a unique style that sets you apart, key in getting work? Is the likeness/exaggeration often an area of contention between the artist and client? A: One of the great things about caricature is that as an artform it can include virtually any style of drawings or rendering and still be instantly recognizable as a caricature. Whether a caricature… READ MORE
As promised here is a glimpse of the process behind the art for MAD’s “Toyota Story” parody poster image: The job was described to me as a fake poster for a “Toy Story” spin-off film, done in a typical Pixar look, with the gag being the toys behind the wheel of a runaway Toyota and several of them being run over and squashed. Naturally the effectiveness of the parody would rely on the artwork looking as genuinely Pixar-like as possible, so I know I had a lot of tight painting ahead of me. Here is my initial sketch: Click for a closer look… Based on… READ MORE
Click for a closer look… Comic’s Alliance debuted the above piece I did as part of an exclusive “sneak peek” from MAD #503, so I guess I can now share it here. Actually the “Toyota Story” piece WON’T be in MAD #503, as I just completed it on Tuesday and that issue had been to the printer already by then (unless there was some delay I am not aware of). By the way, the official news stand date for #503 is March 23rd. “Toyota Story” should soon be available for download on MAD‘s website gallery of downloadable parody posters, and may make it into a… READ MORE
David Paccia is the author of the interesting blog “David-Wasting-Paper“, which features interviews with cartoonists in the form of a series of survey questions. There has been a great run of terrific cartoonists interviewed on David’s site, but I’m afraid that run has come to an end. Yes, David has finally scraped the bottom of the barrel and has stooped to interviewing me for his blog. Looks like he redeems himself next with my friend Rick Stomowski (Soup 2 Nutz), but in the meantime he wears the yoke of shame. However, do not let that dissuade you from visiting David’s Wasting Paper and reading the… READ MORE
Yesterday the movie blog /Film shared an exclusive sneak peek of Serigo Aragon?¬©s “A MAD Look at Avatar”, which will appear in issue #503, due out this month (Click on images for a closer look): READ MORE
I’m too busy to do a regular sketch this week so here are a handful of rough sketches for a (fairly) big storyboard job I am working on. I removed any references that might give anything from the film away. The following is part of the opening and closing of a short animated segment where these two squirrels are gag characters… A bunch of other stuff happens in the scene, and then we go back to the squirrels… I haven’t done storyboards since college, but it’s a fun and interesting exercise… pure drawing and storytelling with little concern over the finishing process. READ MORE
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