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
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
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
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
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
From WickedCoolStuff.com comes some awesome Monty Python and the Holy Grail goodies: The Black Knight backpack! The cow (and other farm animals) catapult! A complete horse action figure!! If none of these items make you instantly laugh out loud go immediately to your local movie rental store or your Netflix cue and rent “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, sit down and watch this hilarious film, then come back. READ MORE
The Jaques Art Center in Aitkin, MN will be having an exhibit of original cartoon art by “nationally known cartoonists, comic artists, illustrators and animators” starting one week from today, August 28th and running through October 3rd. Show organizer and cartoonist Duane Barnhart dropped by the studio last night to pick up several pieces of mine for the show, including a few original pages from MAD and other stuff. It sounds like a great exhibit with a lot of different work in it… I know that he has gotten originals from resident Minnesota cartoonists like Dan Jurgens (Superman, etc.), Jerry Van Amerongen (Ballard Street) and… READ MORE
The International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA, formerly known as the NCN) 2009 Annual Caricature Convention and Competition is fast approaching on November 2nd-7th in Sandusky, Ohio. If you are a caricaturist either doing the live thing or for publication and have never attended one of these events, you are missing something special. There are some unique things about this year’s convention that makes it a perfect time for non-ISCA members to attend to see what it’s all about. First off, there is not one, not two, not three but FOUR guest speakers, all from MAD Magazine: Sam Viviano– Longtime MAD artist and current art… READ MORE
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