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January 9th, 2010 | Posted in News
Some weeks back I blogged about this 5 inch tall bobblehead of President Obama as Uncle Sam I designed for filmmaker Ray Griggs as part of the promotion of a movie he is making called “I Want Your Money”. A few people have asked how they can get one. Ray told me yesterday that he is giving away the bobblehead to anyone who makes a $30.oo or more donation towards his film project. He has a donation page on the film’s website. All you have to do is follow the link, donate $30 (make sure you include your name and address with the donation) and… READ MORE
January 8th, 2010 | Posted in General
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January 7th, 2010 | Posted in It's All Geek to Me!
I don’t usually endorse products or services on The MAD Blog, so when I do you can bet it’s because I am really impressed with whatever it is I am recommending. UBreakIFix iPhone repair service is one of those exceptions. Here’s the story: The entire Richmond family was visiting Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park last week when my son Thomas had a disaster with his iPhone 3g. He took it out to type what was probably his 10,000th text message of the day when it slipped out of his grasp and fell face first to the sidewalk. When he picked it up it looked… READ MORE
January 6th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s subject is Edward James Olmos, star of the updated “Battlestar Galactica” TV series on the ScyFy network. The series is over now, and I never watched it while it was running. I’ve recently been renting the DVDs and found it to be a very good show. It’s pretty courageous in the way it handles it’s characters… warts and all. Olmos is particularly good and he’s got a great face to draw as well. READ MORE
January 5th, 2010 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Lot’s of projects going on the board right now… Animation Character Designs– Political caricatures to be used for some animated segments in a documentary, wrapping those up this week. Personal Commission– I was honored to be asked by a cartoonist I greatly respect to do a caricature of a famous friend of her’s as a birthday present. I might be doing this digitally now. Movie Poster– A very simple design and illustration for previously mentioned documentary Movie Storyboards– More work on that documentary, now I’m doing the storyboards for the animated sequences as well! Workplace poster job– my usual monthly assignment Last Wednesday I posted… READ MORE
January 4th, 2010 | Posted in General
Busy, busy, busy already in the new year. Above is a small spot illustration I did for On Patrol magazine of USO president and CEO Sloan Gibson. On Patrol is the magazine of the USO, and the Winter issue features coverage of the USO sponsored NCS cartoonist’s trip to Germany, Kuwait and Iraq back in October. The website linked above is not yet updated to include the winter issue’s content, but the magazine features a great cover by Michael Ramirez, some pictures of us in action (I mean drawing… not the kind of action the people we drew are used to) and an article that… READ MORE
January 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Working as a freelance artist, how do you financially plan for retirement? As artists, I don’t think most of us ever plan to completely “retire” but by being a freelancer you definitely have to create your own pension. Do you simply put a percentage of your income away each year? I’m making an assumption here but, seeing how selling your originals in the future might be a part of your income, what are some of the practices you keep when preserving your artwork? I feel like it’s very easy to forget about the future and not have a plan because it seems so far… READ MORE
January 2nd, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCDxaiYZXaU My pal, the great animator and illustrator Stephen Silver, has been working on an incredible video series project for some time that is about to come to full fruition this month with the first of several video releases. His project has been to travel to the studios of some of the great legends of cartooning and film them working while interviewing them about their process, their careers and their philosophies about art. All the while the camera is looking over their shoulder and capturing them actually drawings, inking and painting. Not only are these videos going to be fascinating looks into the work of… READ MORE
