Caricaturist extraordinaire and fellow member of the Usual Gang of Idiots Drew Friedman was the guest speaker at the International Society of Caricature Artists convention held last month in St. Pete’s Beach, Florida. Drew has posted a wrap-up of his trip, including lots of pictures and a transcript of a Q & A he did as part of one of his two presentations that week. Well worth a look. READ MORE
Off to Orlando with The Lovely Anna and all the kids for our annual visit to see Mickey and Co., plus Harry Potter and friends. You know you have great kids when, despite one daughter being 19 and a sophomore in college, another 18 and a high school senior, and the lone boy a 15 year old high-school tenth-grader, they all still get excited to spend a week with mom and dad at Disney World and Universal Studios. The 21 year-old autistic daughter would rather be no where else. The MAD Blog posts might be spotty this week. Apologies in advance. READ MORE
No mailbag today. A very Merry Christmas and blessings to all in whatever season or faith you celebrate this time of year. READ MORE
My daughter The Dramatic Victoria showed me this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm3rIGEnmYc&sns=em[/youtube] Priceless. READ MORE
Over on MAD‘s official blog, The Idiotical, the editors have announced that you can now purchase select MAD books for download on the Kindle Fire. Can the magazine itself be far behind? READ MORE
One thing I have always had to fight against with respect to my professional work is my tendency to visualize a single solution to an illustration project and just run with it. While that is the least time-consuming way to go about things, it is also just plain lazy. It is always advisable to force yourself to come up with a few other ideas, if for no other reason than to explore the concept and exercise your conceptual skills. The magic number I always adhere to is three… I want to come up with three different ideas for an illustration that communicate the message and… READ MORE
My apologies to all for the extended hiatus. It’s a long story involving FTP permissions, security and other client son the same servers I was on… it would be extremely boring to go into it. Suffice it to say it’s all ironed out and the MAD Blog is back in action. By way of an apology, here is a fantastic link to the fantastic blog of fantastic illustrator Drew Friedman, where he fantastically recaps his fantastic interview with the fantastic Jack Davis. This message has been brought to you by The MAD Blog’s Adjective of the Day: ITCHY Thank you. READ MORE
I am once again changing servers, this time internally within my web-host’s structure, and for a brief time I am unable to upload images or do several things with the blog during the transition. As a result, The MAD Blog will be on hiatus for a brief time… might be just today, might be for a few days. Unknown. My apologies, we will be back up ASAP. In the meantime…carry on, internet. READ MORE
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