August 30th, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
I really get a lot out of your “How to Draw Caricatures” tutorials. They are the best instruction I’ve found anywhere. It’s been so long since your last one. When will we see a new one? A: I am sorry about the length of time in between those tutorials. The blog is something I do just for fun and it has to take a backseat to paying jobs and projects. When will the long promised tutorial on “Noses” be posted? How about… tomorrow! It’s all done except for a few doodles so I will do those and post that tutorial Monday. Thanks to Grant Jonen… READ MORE
August 29th, 2009 | Posted in News
Yesterday was the official opening of the previously mentioned cartoon art show in Aitkin, MN, and today is the opening reception gala: August 28 – October 3, 2009 In the Main Gallery at the Jaques Art Center, 121 Second Street North West, Aitkin, MN Artist reception: August 29, 1-4 pm public is welcome! What’s So Funny? features an entire gallery of original cartoon art including comic strips, comic book art, panel cartoons, editorial cartoons, advertising art, book illustration, caricatures, animation art, cells, and storyboards and more created by many of the world’s foremost cartoonists including Charles Schulz (Peanuts) and Jim Davis (Garfield). If you are… READ MORE
August 28th, 2009 | Posted in News
The show of my MAD work is still hanging through October 4th at the Pittsburgh Toonseum, a museum of cartoon art located inside the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Toonseum curator Joe Wos recently send me a link to the following video posted on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website about the exhibit: Sorry can’t embed you’ll just have to click the image to go to the video page… The big news is that the Toonseum is going to be moving out of the Children’s Museum and into their own separate location in downtown Pittsburgh. The location is in the “Cultural District” across from the August Wilson center… READ MORE
August 27th, 2009 | Posted in General
Here is yet another of the time lapse demo caricatures from the 1993 retail sales video. This one is of “All in the Family” star Carroll O’Connor. I’m not sure how many people under 35 will know who this is… I don’t think “All in the Family” gets a lot of syndication time on TV these days. It was a famous and groundbreaking show in it’s day. READ MORE
August 26th, 2009 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch subject is Brad Pitt in his role from the film “Inglorious Basterds”. I’m looking forward to seeing this movie and hope I can find the time to do it before it is gone from the theaters. READ MORE
August 25th, 2009 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
The work is piling up… I am currently totally swamped. MAD Job– small one but fun. Bobblehead design– I’m doing a caricature of Obama as a “turnaround” similar to an animated character design which will be turned into a bobblehead. 535 caricatures– That’s the actual total of the number of caricatures I am doing for an iPhone app project. 😮 Documentary Movie Poster– Another Obama image Graphic Novel– I’m working with a very well known syndicated cartoonist/author on a full length graphic novel we are pitching to various publishers, so I will be doing about 8-10 pages for the pitch. Newspaper Illustration– Haven’t done anything… READ MORE
August 24th, 2009 | Posted in General
From left to right: The Lovely Anna, me, Cedric Hohnstadt, Anne and John Hambrock, Jerry Van Amerongen and Linda Houden, Nicole and Kelly McNutt, Mike Edholm, Roxanne Prichard and Jim Horwitz. The Lovely Anna and I were fortunate to find our humble abode graced by the company of a bunch of cartoonists and their families from Minnesota and elsewhere around the mid-west as we hosted an official unofficial Grill-Out Party of members of the North Central Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. The occasion was that new NCS member John Hambrock, creator of the syndicated strip “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee” and his family… READ MORE
August 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I want to ask you about the bane of my life – speech bubbles. I create cartoons for a fanzine over here in the UK and have just recently splashed out on an imac and adobe photoshop, is there a facility within photoshop to create speech bubbles and to insert text within them if not is there a software package you recommend? A: I really don’t deal much with speech bubbles, but I feel your pain. Speech bubbles and especially lettering drive me crazy as well. With MAD, I am one of the few artists who still draws the speech boxes into the art:… READ MORE
