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Sketch O’The Week

November 28th, 2007 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

The silicon enhanced, calorically challenged former Posh Spice Victoria Beckham. This is a study where the body and posture are central to the caricature. READ MORE

Leopard for Artists

November 27th, 2007 | Posted in It's All Geek to Me!

A Guide for the Visual Artist: Mac OS 10.5 Leopard Computer operating systems are tricky pieces of software. Imagine if the manufacturer of your car, something you use and need every day, had to build their vehicles so that you could buy and use seats from one company, a steering wheel from another, tires from a third, etc. That’s the challenge for companies like Microsoft… write a program that runs your computer put will also work with all the hardware and software out there on store shelves. The car analogy goes even further in that most consumers don’t need (or care) to know how a… READ MORE

On the Drawing Board

November 26th, 2007 | Posted in On the Drawing Board

I have a moderate amount of stuff on the board right now. Today I had deadlines for two jobs, one a workplace poster and one an ad job… both “in the can” as they say in the bidness. The poster job is another of the workplace posters which I can share after I complete, so that is posted below. Other stuff right now includes: MAD– I’m trying to wrap up that two pager from September that got bumped because I have a new one coming possibly today, and it’s going to be a really fun job. There is something to like about every MAD job,… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

November 25th, 2007 | Posted in Mailbag

Q; I am an artist who also has a son who is interested in becoming an artist for a living. Do you have any advice on how to teach him the skills necessary to pursue this career? A: I don’t know how young your son is, but with kids the most important thing is just to encourage them to keep exploring their art and artistic interests. Pablo Picasso once said: “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.“ I believe that wholeheartedly. Children see and interpret the world through eyes unclouded by preconceptions eventually forced on them… READ MORE

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Web

November 24th, 2007 | Posted in General

Rather than post the Dreaded Deadline Demon today since I am swamped with Monday deadlines, I’m posting a suitably lame list of links to MAD related articles, sites and other general wastes of time and drains on American productivity. Fa fa fa. Han Shot First Dept.- There is a nice feature about the MAD parodies of the Star Wars films over on starwars.com, including an article with Mort Drucker and a Q&A with writer Dick Debartolo. Mort was the artist on all the film parodies except the original Star Wars (Harry North did that one, but Mort later did the “musical version”) and the last… READ MORE

The Wall of Shame: Bill Cosby

November 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Wall of Shame

It’s been a while since I’ve posted something from my Wall of Shame, so I thought it was high time I featured another cool item off the wall. This one is a caricature I did as a theme park sample some years ago of comedy legend Bill Cosby. For those newer readers, the Wall of Shame is an area just outside my studio where The Lovely Anna has framed prints of various pieces I’ve done that, through MAD, good fortune or just dumb luck I’ve had signed by the subjects I’ve caricatured. You can see my other Wall of Shame piece and stories about obtaining… READ MORE

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 22nd, 2007 | Posted in General

I hope everybody is enjoying a day of eating too much among the company of family and friends. READ MORE

Sketch O’The Week

November 21st, 2007 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I did this quick ink sketch yesterday as part of a header graphic for a column I’m kind of doing in a new cartoonist’s magazine called Stay Tooned!, published by John Read. I say “kind of doing” because John will be picking and choosing some of my Sunday Mailbag questions and answers for the column, and I will edit and possibly expand them for his magazine. John describes it as a “paean to the practitioners of cartooning”. I envision it as having shades of Hogan’s Alley and Cartoonist’s Profile, except his standards for contributors must be exceptionally low if I’m involved. Still, R.C. Harvey will… READ MORE