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There are only a few museums around the country that focus on comics and cartooning as part of their ongoing programs. The Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, the¬¨‚Ä† MoCCA (Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) in New York and the Museum of Cartoon Art in San Fransisco are three that come to mind right away. A fourth is The Toonseum, a part of the excellent Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, PA. The Toonseum’s mission statement is: “to celebrate the art of cartooning. (Their) goal is to promote a deeper appreciation of the cartoonists and their work through hands-on workshops, community outreach, cartoon-oriented… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week

October 29th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Here’s a stab at the famously hard-to-caricature William Shatner. Actually these days he’s a lot easier to capture than he was in the 60’s as a younger man. Boston Legal is one of The Lovely Anna‘s favorite TV shows. BTW, sorry for the ugly “©2008 Tom Richmond” in the image, but I am going to start adding that to anything I put on the internet to try and safeguard as best I can against the possible passage someday of the Orphan Works Act. READ MORE

On the Drawing Board- 10/28/08

October 28th, 2008 | Posted in On the Drawing Board

Just a few jobs going right now. I’m just getting into the final work on my part of the “MAD 20”, AKA “MAD’s 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2008”. It should come as no surprise that one of the subjects of this year’s “MAD 20” is the credit crisis, and that is indeed the subject of my piece. Sorry I can’t share more. Here’s a step by step image gallery of the workplace poster I finished up yesterday. It’s nice that the client I do these for does not mind that I share the final artwork as soon as it’s done. I often… READ MORE

The Dreaded Deadline Demon

October 27th, 2008 | Posted in General

Monday deadline blues…. Look for an “On the Drawing Board” post tomorrow with a “step by step” of a recent job. READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

October 26th, 2008 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: How did you execute your Holmes graphic (see above) ? Did you scan the material for the clothing and hat then skew it in Photoshop.¬¨‚Ä† It looks very cool ! Maybe you don’t want to share your secret. I hope you do. A: It’s not really any kind of secret. It’s just some simple Photoshop trickery. I didn’t save a “step by step” nor did I save the original pattern files, so I will just have to explain it. I do have the original unflattened file so you can see the various elements. First, I inked the image and scanned it as I always… READ MORE

Insurance and Treatments for Autism?

October 25th, 2008 | Posted in General

Our Elizabeth and one of her favorites, Rachel Ray As the parent of an autistic child, no ones knows better than I both the difficulties and expenses involved with raising a kid with autism. As a self employed person, it’s doubly tough as health insurance is a wallet buster under the best of circumstances, let alone when one of your kids has a disability. Autism isn’t nearly as expensive to deal with as other disabilities might be… we didn’t have to remodel our home to accommodate a wheelchair for example. Still there are plenty of extra expenses involved including doctors visits, medication and the like.… READ MORE

MAD About the Movies: The Sequel?

October 24th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Not the sequel… the “Directors’ Cut“. Back in 1998 MAD published MAD About the Movies, a collection of movie spoofs from over the years. It was in part to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Warner Bros. (WB owns DC Comics which in turn owns MAD) and all the movies in the book were Warner Bros. films. 10 years later MAD is coming out with a new version of the book featuring parodies of films from other studios as well as some from WB. MAD About the Movies: Director’s Cut weighs in at a whopping 400 pages and contains not only SIXTY movie parodies from films… READ MORE