The long anticipated update to the Totally MAD cd-rom collection is finally out. Absolutely MAD contains complete digital copies of all issues of MAD from #1 to #460 on one DVD, as well as special issues and collections. Each issue is searchable by keywords and such. A valuable resource… and it works on both Macs and PCs. Go buy one today, clod! READ MORE
Here are the finals for the workplace poster and the Scholastic job. Both were pretty rushed: The basketball poster is 17 x 17 inches and the Scholastic images are spots only about 4 inches wide, as you can tell from the level of detail. I just got assigned a quick turn around job for MAD and have another TV show parody in the works. READ MORE
I just need to take a short break here to apologize for something. If you haven’t explored any more of this website beyond the blog, the link icons up above lead to lots of art and other stuff, including an area called the Me Gallery. This is my collection of caricatures drawn of myself over the years, at NCN conventions, vacations, from colleagues and peers and from people over the internet who take the time to draw me from the provided photos just for fun and to be included. The Me Gallery is a lot of fun and a great way to see how different… READ MORE
He’s here and he’s ornery… READ MORE
A few weeks ago a wrote this post about the high definition DVD format war and how it’s shaping up. Briefly, two competing formats are trying to become the next DVD standard. In one corner you have Blu-Ray, backed by Sony and numerous other hardware companies and movie studios. In the other corner you have HD-DVD backed by Toshiba, Universal and a few others. Sony is the main backer of Blu-Ray. They pioneered the technology and are the driving force behind it’s marketing and roll out. In case you aren’t familiar with Sony, they have been down this road before. In the mid-seventies Sony introduced… READ MORE
Unless you have been living under a rock the last 18 hours, you have probably heard that Joe Barbera, of Hanna-Barbera animation fame, died yesterday at age 95 from natural causes. Tributes have been flooding animation and cartoon websites and blogs like Cartoon Brew, Drawn! and others. Clearly the man was a well respected legend in the animation business. Having little or no experience in the animation field other than a viewer’s enjoyment of the good stuff, I have next to no personal knowledge of Barbera’s history or contributions to animation as an art form. I think it’s a testament, however, to the longevity of… READ MORE
I’ve got a TV show parody for MAD, but it’s is not due until late January, so like any good freelancer I am doing other jobs and only working on it in between. Here’s what I’ve got in the works for this week: Workplace Poster Job– Another one of these, this one for March publication. Here’s the pencil: Scholastic– Spot illustrations for an article about teenagers in ancient Rome and the differences between upper and lower class lives and expectations. Like National Geographic for Kids, Scholastic is a client that places a lot of emphasis on accuracy as far as historical clothes, hairstyles and other… READ MORE
Q: How do you choose which feature(s) to exaggerate in a caricature? A: That’s an easy one to answer: the face I’m drawing tells me. The explanation is not so easy. Caricature is all about your perception of the face in question. Perception is very different from measurable physical elements. If it was possible to have exactly the same nose on two different faces, that nose on one person may be perceived as big and on another person might seem small or at least not big. It’s all about the combination of features, how they relate to one another, and how an artist perceives them… READ MORE
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