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Merry Christmas!

December 25th, 2011 | Posted in General

No mailbag today. A very Merry Christmas and blessings to all in whatever season or faith you celebrate this time of year. READ MORE

Ace the Bat Hound Lives!

December 18th, 2011 | Posted in General

My daughter The Dramatic Victoria showed me this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm3rIGEnmYc&sns=em[/youtube] Priceless. READ MORE

Digital MAD? It’s Getting Closer….

December 17th, 2011 | Posted in General

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

The MAD Blog Returns!

December 16th, 2011 | Posted in General

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

The MAD Blog Hiatus

December 13th, 2011 | Posted in General

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

Give Bonds for Christmas

December 2nd, 2011 | Posted in General

For all those people out there who have that hard-to-buy-for person in their lives who also might happen to be a big 007 James Bond fan… I have a little over 40 of these limited edition (250 total), signed and numbered “Secret Agent Man” prints still available. One would cost you a measly $25 including shipping in the US or $28 including shipping to the rest of the world. It’s a deal to kill for… if you have a license for that sort of thing, of course. Click the image above or this link for all the gory details. READ MORE

TMAoC Book on Amazon! Need Reviews!

November 29th, 2011 | Posted in General

Phase two of the marketing of my book, The Mad Art of Caricature! is on with the listing of the book on Amazon.com. As I discussed in this post, listing the book through on-line retailers like Amazon (and soon Barnes and Noble) brings the book beyond the relatively narrow audience of this blog and offers it to the world-at-large. The trade off is that Amazon takes a whopping 55% of the cover price, and I have to pay to ship the copies to them, so the amount of profit I realize on a sale through them is significantly less than when I sell it directly… READ MORE