Happy Thanksgiving for all those who celebrate it! It’s time for my annual posting of this turkey of a sketch, although I happened to find the original drawing in an old sketchbook recently so this is a fresh, higher-res scan. May your day be filled with friends, family, fun, laughs, and turkey… but not this guy. READ MORE
Happy Veterans Day to all those who serve or have served our country in the military. Thank you for your service. I never served but have several family members who have, including my grandfather who was a World War II army veteran who was stationed in the south pacific during the war. I also had the privilege of meeting and getting to know many service men and women on all those cartoonists USO trips I went on. Today is the official day to recognize and thank them all, but really that should be every day. READ MORE
It’s the return of my in-person caricature workshops! I’m going to do a handful of them next year (locations TBD) and I have been reworking some of my teaching methods and approach, so I thought I’d try sneaking a “getting back into it” workshop in on short notice. This one will take place in Las Vegas the weekend of Dec 10-11th. As with the ones I did for a few years pre-pandemic, the class size is limited to twelve students, so there is lots of time for personal instruction. I’ll be trying a few new things I’ve been thinking about with this workshop, but much… READ MORE
Since witches and wizards are out tonight, it’s perfect timing to share this parody of the last of the Harry Potter movie spoofs to appear in MAD. This parody of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” appeared in MAD #507, February 2011, and was written by Desmond Devlin. MAD did parodies of all eight Harry Potter films, including the final “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”. All were written by Desmond. Mort Drucker did the art on the first spoof “Harry Plodder and the Sorry-Ass Story” in black and white back in MAD #412, Dec. 2001. I did the art for… READ MORE
Copping out this week due to deadlines and stuff. In honor of Halloween, here’s an old one of Elsa Lanchester as “The Monster’s Bride”. Brush pen and marker. READ MORE
Don’t Get Me Wrong, our sketch subject has been the Talk of the Town for over 40 years as one of the original female stars of the punk rock scene. Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders also managed to bridge the gap between the club based pure punk world, new wave, and the commercial success of radio, with several big hits in the late 70’s and 80’s. She turned 71 last week! READ MORE
The pages of MAD Magazine has been graced by the work of some of the greatest cartoonists in the history of the medium… and that is not hyperbole. Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Al Jaffee, Will Elder, Mort Drucker, Paul Coker, Antonio Prohias, Don Martin… the list keeps going. Perhaps the greatest pure cartoonist of them all turns 85 today! The incomparable Sergio Aragonés started with MAD in 1963 at age 26. He would go on to become one of the most prolific members of the Usual Gang of Idiots (second only to Jaffee, actually), appearing in (as of this writing) 501 issues (there… READ MORE
I’m trying to catch up after San Diego Comic Con last week, so in lieu of a MADness of the week here’s a look at some panels from Desmond Devlin and my upcoming book of all new movie parodies, CLAPTRAP. If you are already a backer, you’ll have seen these on a recent update, but I thought I’d share them here. See if you can identify the movies they are spoofing… none of which were ever spoofed in MAD. We are going to be about a year late delivering the book, but in our defense we are doing two parodies more than we originally planned,… READ MORE
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