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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
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
November 28th, 2011 | Posted in General
Jeff, AJ and me Early in the summer of 2010 I received a call from some gentlemen out in LA who represented world-famous comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham to inquire about my doing some work for him. I was told Jeff was a big fan of MAD Magazine and my work, and wanted to explore the possibility of using some of my artwork for various projects. In the ensuing year and a half, I’ve done quite a bit of work for him, including detailed illustrations of his various characters, some more simplified line-art type work of same, a few things for merchandising/products and some conceptual work on… READ MORE
November 28th, 2011 | Posted in General
Tonight’s episode of MAD on the Cartoon Network will feature a segment I worked on called “Superhero Millionaire Matchmaker”. Check it out at 8:30/7:30 Central time on the CN. I’ll post some of the art I did for it tomorrow. READ MORE
November 25th, 2011 | Posted in General
Thinking about ordering a signed copy of The Mad Art of Caricature for Christmas? Better hurry, especially if you are ordering from overseas. We have had a number of horror stories about customs in the destination countries sitting on the package for several weeks before finally clearing it and allowing delivery. In some cases, it has taken as long as 5-6 weeks from shipment to delivery when going overseas… and even just to Canada. There seems to be no rhyme or reason with this… two shipments to same country can vary from delivery in 10 days or so to 5 weeks or longer. Luck of… READ MORE
November 24th, 2011 | Posted in General
For all my fellow Americans out there, all the best on Thanksgiving. I hope you are enjoying it with family and friends. To all the rest of the world, happy… uh… Thursday. READ MORE
November 21st, 2011 | Posted in General
One of the typical things you will find in any how-to book is a definition of the book’s subject. It is cliche but a good jumping-off point. On page 2 of my book The Mad Art of Caricature, I wanted to play the definition card. The problem was that the best definition I ever heard was one I could not for the life of me remember where I had heard it. That definition was: “A caricature is a portrait with the volume turned up.” I spent a fair amount of time trying to find out where I had heard that quote. At the time I… READ MORE
November 17th, 2011 | Posted in General
Photo by Jamie Smith I had a chance to meet a number of very talented and hospitable professors, underclassmen and grad students during my visit to the Savannah College of Art and Design last week. One of them got saddled with me as my “handler” (poor schmuck) and really did a great job making sure I had everything I needed for my student portfolio review session and the workshop I did at the SCAD museum. His name was Jamie Smith, and he has written a really terrific recap of the time he spent keeping me out of trouble in Savannah over on his blog… he… READ MORE
