I’m swamped today so here’s a sketch from almost 10 years back. This one was done using a fine point marker. Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep! READ MORE
Today is the 24th anniversary of the start of MadCoverSite.com, an incredible resource for all fans and aficionados of MAD Magazine. The MADCoverSite is the tireless effort of one person, MAD Superfan Doug Gilford. Doug started it on Aug 17th, 1997 as part of the late Dick Hanchette‘s Collectmad.com website. It began as a collection of scans of the all the covers of MAD through the years, along with a list of each issues highlights (or lowlights depending on your perspective). Doug began adding lists of all the movie and TV parodies that had appeared, in alphabetical order with the real movie or show title and the issue in which it appeared.… READ MORE
As if Monday’s weren’t bad enough, it’s time for another nauseating look back at my furshlugginer work for MAD Magazine! Today’s episode is another MAD TV show parody, spoofing “Two and a Half Men”, written by the great Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #450, February 2005. This parody was done when the show was hugely popular and before star Charlie Sheen went off the deep end, which is why you’ll find no references to tiger’s blood, warlocks, “winning”, or general delusion. I cannot remember if I was in a real hurry on this one due to a tight deadline, but the pencil roughs… READ MORE
Q: Do you ever get criticized or praised for people perceiving your work as similar to Mort Drucker? I see the differences, but just was wondering how you as an artist have dealt with that comparison. A: I spent 20 years drawing caricature/likeness based movie and TV parodies for MAD Magazine. The comparisons to Mort Drucker and other famous MAD artists like Jack Davis, Angelo Torres, etc are inevitable. I have a drawing style based on line (as opposed to values like a painter), my caricatures lean more toward likeness than exaggeration, and my storytelling comes from a comic book background. Anyone who does that… READ MORE
Last week Saturday comedian Trevor Moore passed away at 41 in a what is being referred to as a “tragic accident” in a residential yard in Los Angeles. So far no details have been released. Moore was one of the founders of the NYC comedy group “The Whitest Kids U Know”, which ran for 5 season on the Independent Film Channel. Back in 2008 MAD did a “special advertising section” insert in issue #486 (and I think a number of other DC Comics publications) that promoted “The Whitest Kids U Know” show on IFC. It was kind of a mini MAD with a cover by… READ MORE
Since we were strolling down memory lane with my sketch of Al & Peg Bundy yesterday, I thought we’d take a look back as some of the “Married…with Children” comic book work I did way back in the early 90’s. The above was a promo ad for the title, and here’s a bunch of covers. Some I pencilled only, some I also inked, and one I did the color and all. NOW switched from doing a regular numbered series to a series of multiple issue “miniseries” that were built around a themed storyline. The cover above was the first in a series of four where… READ MORE
This week’s sketch is another TV show that could have been part of that “History of the Sitcom” piece I did for CNN… Katey Sagal and Ed O’Neill as Peg and Al Bundy from “Married… with Children”. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. This show has a special significance to me because from 1990 to 1994 I did the pencils for about 25 issues of the “Married… with Children” comic book for NOW Comics. That was a lot of drawings of the Bundys done by a young artist whose skill set still needed a lot of work and growth. Fortunately I… READ MORE
Last year’s virtual NCSFest and Reuben Awards weekend, conducted jointly with the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, was a pretty big success, so the National Cartoonists Society is doing it again in 2021. On October 15th & 16th, the NCS will live stream a combination of speaker/panel programming and the Reuben Awards themselves on NCSFEST.com and COMICARTFESTIVAL.com, which will intermingled with the live-streamed programming of the Lakes Festival taking place simultaneously from Kendall, UK. There is also some events that both the NSC and the Lakes folks will be doing together. Just like last year, the programing will run over a specified time, but individual… READ MORE
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