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Sketch O’The Day

November 28th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

A very small study of Pamela Anderson’s once again ex, Kid Rock: READ MORE

Changed my Mind about Selling “Battyman Begone”

November 28th, 2006 | Posted in General

A good friend convinced me that selling this artwork for the song I was asking was a disservice. Maybe it will never be sellable for much more than I was asking, but it is worth more to me.??á¬¨‚Ä† I guess the after market for pages from MAD isn’t worth much if your last name isn’t Drucker, Davis, Wood or similar… or more accurately if you aren’t in the same league as those guys.??á¬¨‚Ä† Of course, who is? I’ve ended my eBay auction and taken the references to selling the parody art for Battyman Begone off the Blog and the Studio Store. Maybe one day I… READ MORE

MAD on AOL

November 28th, 2006 | Posted in MAD Magazine

As long as I’m on the subject, MAD also tried another on-line endeavor years ago in conjunction with AOL. It was called the “RED” page and was a special teen orientated AOL site. MAD contributed a daily cartoon for the page. This was really a fun job, as it was a quick image and a quick turnaround. MAD needed a digital JPG file at 300 x 300 dpi, usually withing a few hours of calling with the job. It was almost like doing newspaper work, and it paid pretty well considering the short time involved. In order to get these done quickly, I would skip… READ MORE

Sketch O’The Day

November 27th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

A very quick one of former NFL running back turned reality TV dancer Emmitt Smith: I guess he won something either by dancing or by wearing the dumbest outfit ever worn by a man on television… I don’t get ‘reality’ TV. READ MORE

MAD’S Website Golden Oldies

November 27th, 2006 | Posted in MAD Magazine

MAD has had several different website designs and redesigns over the last five or so years. They’ve done numerous things, like try and make it an extension of the magazine with original content updated weekly. As I wrote in the mailbag yesterday, I happened along at the time they were first attempting this, and it led to my getting some assignments that were not for print but for the website. They actually had a separate editor that was handling the content, which generally involved a list or short article and some kind of image. Sometimes it was just a static article, but usually it involved… READ MORE

Sketch O’The Day

November 26th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Another Heroes cast member, Hayden Panettiere: Save the Cheerleader, Save the World! READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

November 26th, 2006 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: When did you start drawing for MAD, and what was your first article? A: That’s somewhat of a complicated question because the first thing I ever drew for MAD was actually the sixth piece I had printed, my first ‘published’ job was not for the magazine but for their website, and the first actual assignment I got printed was given to me three months after that first piece was done. Unofficially my first assignment was a job called “MAD’s Cable TV Viewing Odds” in June of 2000. I say “unofficially” because it was more of a tryout than a real job. I believe they… READ MORE

Sketch O’The Day

November 25th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

A quick figure study out of an old copy of Sports Illustrated For a while there I was getting a lot of the sports related artwork in MAD, and I did a lot of sports art for various other clients like the Minnesota Twins, the San Fransisco Giants and a few others. I haven’t done much of that lately. Personally I think drawing athletes in action is better done from memory than from photo reference. At the very least you have to simplify the figure and boil down the action to more archtypical poses. Fast shutter pictures capture weird folds and awkward moments in movement.… READ MORE