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The Dreaded Deadline Demon

May 31st, 2008 | Posted in General

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Hacked!

May 30th, 2008 | Posted in News

This morning I got a phone call from my friend, NYC illustrator Ed Steckley, who informed me my website was acting strangely. It was insisting on installing a program that his anti-virus software was jumping up and down and yelping about being a very naughty program. I couldn’t even open the website at all on my Mac. A few e-mails to my excellent webhosts, A2Zhost.net, and it was discovered that someone hacked my blog this morning and inserted some Javascript code to require a browser to download some kind of virus, adware or spyware something or another. The folks at A2Z fixed it all up… READ MORE

Orphan Works Progress

May 30th, 2008 | Posted in News

I forgot to mention one other good thing to come out of the Reuben weekend was that the NCS addressed the Orphan Works legislation at their annual business meeting on Saturday morning. Stu Rees, the NCS’s official unofficial lawyer to the membership, educated those at the meeting about the bill and what it could mean to them. It’s a larger problem for some of the long time cartoonists who have done tens of thousands of gag cartoons or illustrations over the years who could easily find their work being used without their consent or without the chance to negotiate a fair rate for it, as… READ MORE

On the Drawing Board- 5/29/08

May 29th, 2008 | Posted in On the Drawing Board

I’m really up against it right now, but here’s a poster illustration from last week, pencils, inks and color: Click for a closer look Click for a closer look I’m currently killing myself on a MAD job due tomorrow, followed by the finals of the “Super Capers” movie job and then the web game design job. Then….. ????? READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week

May 28th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Click for a closer look I ran across this partially completed ink drawing of “The X-Files” stars Robert Patrick and Gillian Anderson (this was when David Duchovny had left the show for his brilliant film career) from a number of years ago and thought, given the new movie coming out, it might be somewhat timely. I did the drawing just for testing out some new ink nibs and different kinds of ink when I was experimenting with different tools. You can see I used a sepia ink for some of it, which I found way too watery. In fact there are four different inks on… READ MORE

Reuben Wrap Up

May 27th, 2008 | Posted in General

Another Reuben Awards in the books. This was our 10th time attending… The Lovely Anna and I have never missed one since I became a member in 1999. Cartooning is a strange business and occupation… it’s one where you strive to communicate with the world through humor via words and images, yet most do it sitting alone at their drawing table with little or no interaction with others. It’s a solitary process and the feedback you get can be little to none. That’s what makes the NCS such a great organization, and the Reubens such an important function to so many. It’s the one place… READ MORE

NCS Reuben Report- Day Three

May 26th, 2008 | Posted in General

I had intended a nice, involved wrap up of the Reuben weekend today with lots of pictures both from the awards dinner Saturday and the various events on Sunday, but it wasn’t until this morning that I realized I did not bring the proper data cable along to transfer pictures from The Lovely Anna‘s camera to my laptop. Since I left my own camera at the room that makes me SOL until I get back home to the studio. Look for that post tomorrow. Here’s one more pic from my camera from Saturday’s event. Suffice it to say the Reubens were again a great time… READ MORE

NCS Reubens Report- Day Two

May 25th, 2008 | Posted in General

There were seminars on Saturday by the irrepressible Mort Gerberg and the adorable Sandra Boynton, but I had to miss them both as I was busy inking a MAD job all afternoon. I did get to get dressed up and go to the awards ceremony that evening, though! Al Jaffee and Mel Lazarus First off, the winner of the Reuben for “Cartoonist of the Year”: Al Jaffee. Al is such a great guy and such an inspirational talent. Even though this award is really supposed to recognize the achievements of the past year’s work of a cartoonist, in this case it was really more of… READ MORE

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