Jiggity Jig. It’s a long travel day today back to Minnesota. It will take me several days to stop saying “si” whenever a question requires the answer “yes”. Again, a full report on my Colombia experience next week. READ MORE
Some of the crazy South American cartoonists I hung out with for a week in Cali Last night was the opening of my art exhibition at the Centro Columbo Americano in Cali, Colombia. The Colombo is an educational resource for Cali residents and visitors about Amercia’s culture, language and life. They teach English there, have exhibitions and shows featuring American arts and culture and organize events featuring the same in Cali. Last week they had a blues music festival featuring many international musicians including a few from the United States. They also act as a resource for Americans visiting Cali, and often are hosts to… READ MORE
I once again took the plunge and advertised in Serbin Communication’s “Directory of Illustration“. Above is my page that will be in the book coming out in November. Every year I say I am going to take my time and really design an eye-popping page, and very year I realize the night before the deadline that I need to throw something together. This year I staying with a heavy dose of the “colored line” technique I’ve been using lately. The background colors/dot pattern that mirror my site are terribly distracting and overpowering now that I look at it, but there it is. I’ve written a… READ MORE
This week’s sketch is a quick one of the new “Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien. Not much too it, just a straightforward basic study. Conan has a face that is ripe for really going after with exaggeration… I want to do a better one at a later date. The straight on pose is boring. I have yet to see Conan on “The Tonight Show”, but that is hardly surprising as I have watched only¬¨‚Ć handful of minutes of that show since Johnny Carson left, and those were because I was brushing my teeth after the news and couldn’t reach the remote to either turn the… READ MORE
Here’s the second of numerous¬¨‚Ć video “sample”caricatures from a promo video I used at some of my retail caricature locations in the mid 90’s. This one is of Katey Sagal and Ed O’Neill AKA Peg and Al Bundy from the TV show “Married… with Children“. I likely originally drew this sample from memory one day at the theme park, considering I had been drawing the Bundys for NOW comics for several years at that time. I happen to have a scan of this sample as well, shown below, which I still use at the theme parks believe it or not. With it’s endless syndication, the… READ MORE
Yes, you read that right… Cali, Colombia, South America. 😯 I am one of the main guest speakers at the 15 Sal??n Internacional de Historietas y Caricaturas Calicomix 2009 (15th Annual International Exhibition of Cartoons and Caricatures Calicomix 2009) taking place in Cali, Colombia from June 8th through June 30th. I’ll be participating in several activities along with cartoonists, illustrators and caricaturists from all around the world including Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Colombia. Here’s a little rundown of the portions of the event I will be a part of: Tuesday, June 9th- 9:00 am @ Salon Madera, Centro Cultural de Cali- FORO INTERNACIONAL DE HISTORIETA… READ MORE
Q: You’ve noted that a bad caricaturist can get trapped using a set of pre-defined exaggeration points – enlarging a chin, making a nose bigger, giving the eyebrows an odd slant, etc. – and that when you are working you try to find something more personal or a little more interesting and less “by the book”. When you are on the clock, where do you draw the line between making the subject look like the typical caricature one might see vs. something YOU find satisfying? A: I think what you are referring to is what I call “generic caricature”, where a caricaturist basically draws the… READ MORE
I just placed my order for this eagerly anticipated collection of the entire run of Humbug Magazine. I have never seen a single page of this publication, but being that is was edited by Harvey Kurtzman and features work by Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth, Will Elder and Wally Wood, it is undoubtedly pure genius. Humbug was Kurtzman’s second attempt to recapture the magic of his early MAD work, the second being the VERY short lived (2 issues) Trump! Magazine published by Playboy‘s Hugh Hefner. Humbug was actually published by Kurtzman and the creators themselves, which makes it as pure a creative effort as… READ MORE
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