November 29th, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Did you go to art school? If you did, which one? When I’m older, I want to go to an art university but I don’t know which ones are really good yet, or which ones teach cartooning. Do you even have to go to college to be a cartoonist? A: Yes, I went to art school (The College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN) but never had a cartooning class. I was taught traditional drawing, painting and illustration… there was virtually no such thing as a university that taught cartooning back in the 1980’s (except perhaps the School of Visual Arts in New York… READ MORE
November 28th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here is a quick MAD job I did earlier this month that just got posted on the MAD website. It’s obviously a parody of the movie poster for Disney’s “UP” featuring the Heene “Balloon Boy” hoax. I needed to approximate the look of the Pixar characters but with caricatures of Richard Heene and the kid. It will probably be printed in the magazine eventually but the image is already available for download on MAD’s website, along with a lot of other parody posters and such. The colors on this thing really got weird on me in CMYK. I’m not sure if that is something related… READ MORE
November 27th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Black Friday… when completely insane people go out into completely insane crowds in search of deals on whatever. I try to avoid shopping on this day if at all possible. Except from the comfort of my own home, of course! The image above is of another new MAD book that was just released entitled 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die (Crammed into 864 Actual Pages). This is another “Barnes and Noble” exclusive book like MAD About the Movies: The Director’s Cut and I am guessing features a lot of classic MAD features in black and white. I have no idea if I… READ MORE
November 26th, 2009 | Posted in General
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November 25th, 2009 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch subject is “Zombieland” actor Jesse Eisenberg. It’s rare that I go to see a movie with high expectations and have that movie live up to it. Zombieland was every bit as fun as the trailers looked. READ MORE
November 24th, 2009 | Posted in General
Whenever we have people over to the house inevitably they end up in my studio for a tour… all one room of it. Maybe it’s not the Taj Mahal but still for most people it’s a bit like a visit to a candy store… I have surrounded myself with a lot of cool stuff for inspiration and a generally creative atmosphere and tried to lay out the space for both maximum efficiency and functionality. Laymen marvel, women weep and fellow artists turn green with envy. I’ve been threatening to redo it for years now. Well, I finally pulled the trigger this fall and remodeled the… READ MORE
November 23rd, 2009 | Posted in General
…that after being gone for the last 12 days the Dreaded Deadline Demon would be making an appearance today? READ MORE
November 21st, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: What happens when you are headed back from a trip to Australia and have absolutely no time, between packing and checking out and getting to the airport and going through security and customs and eventually getting all the way back to Minnesota, but you need to do a Sunday Mailbag blog post? Do you shamelessly cop out by posting a meaningless answer to a completely made up question, and even more shamelessly recycle a previously used gag? Yes. Thanks to A.E. Neuman for the question. If you have a question you want answered for the mailbag about cartooning, illustration, MAD Magazine, caricature or similar,… READ MORE
