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June 4th, 2011 | Posted in General
Bill “Weg” Green and his burglar. Photo: Craig Abraham From the You Can’t Make it Up Department: A burglar broke into the home of an 82 year old man in Heathmont, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, back in January, 2008. The offender got away after pushing aside the homeowner and stealing his grandson’s bike. Little did the crook know that the man he brushed aside was Bill “Weg” Green, a well known sports caricaturist. When police arrived, he drew a caricature of his intruder. 15 minutes later the burglar was picked up for an unrelated crime but quickly identified as the man who had broken… READ MORE
May 20th, 2011 | Posted in General
After my post on Wednesday about how the accurate drawing of features does not necessarily create the only path to a caricature’s “recognizability”, I received an interesting email from my friend and superstar cartoonist Rick Kirkman, artist of the widely syndicated comic strip Baby Blues. Rick mentioned how he sometimes does a type of caricature with his strip and its animated TV version, where he has to “Baby Blues-ize” famous people…and I’ve seen him do it for soldiers on the USO trips we’ve taken. He also mentioned how this is frequently done on The Simpsons, Futurama and other animated shows. Another friend, Pearls Before Swine… READ MORE
May 17th, 2011 | Posted in General
to even post the Dreaded Deadline Demon, then you are really, REALLY busy. READ MORE
May 9th, 2011 | Posted in General
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILkjbLhlmlY[/youtube] Artist Ryan Kittleson of Orlando, Florida wrote me to share a digitally sculpted caricature he did of me for the Me Gallery. He recorded a sped-up video of his creation, done with the program Zbrush. I’ve never used Zbrush but I’ve seen some cool things done with it. MAD’s Hermann Mejia has done some work with it. I understand there are even three-dimensional “printers” that will sculpt your Zbrush creations somehow. Anyway . . . great stuff, Ryan…and thanks! READ MORE
May 6th, 2011 | Posted in General
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpUE-oMpjNE[/youtube] This video is pretty long but well worth the time. John Kascht is a terrific caricature illustrator who I met when he was a guest speaker at one of the International Society of Caricature Artist’s conventions. This video isn’t just about drawing Conan O’Brien, it’s about the caricature as an art form and the application of this art form in depicting celebrities that the world is intimately familiar with. Many thanks to Marv Sohlo for the heads up on this! READ MORE
May 5th, 2011 | Posted in General
It has become apparent to me over the last few weeks I am going to have to step back from doing daily and involved writing on The MAD Blog for much of the month of May. My regular work, my theme park operations starting, and trying to finish the book, is taking it’s toll…something has to give. The MAD Blog will cut back to a Monday, Wednesday (Sketch o’the Week), Friday and Sunday (Mailbag) schedule through the end of the month. With the possible exception of a quick news post here and there, these will be the only days with active posts, and some of… READ MORE
April 15th, 2011 | Posted in General
The icade console for the iPad. Combined with Atari’s Greatest Hits app, which brings over 100 classic video games to the iPad, this console will mimic the joystick/button play of classic games like Asteroids, Missle Command and Centipede. Pac-Man cannot be far behind. This started out as an April Fools joke from Think Geek, and it’s now about to go on sale… just like the Tauntaun carcass sleeping bag! READ MORE
April 13th, 2011 | Posted in General
Sorry no sketch o’the week this week as I am in Massachusetts setting up our operation at Six Flags New England for the 2011 season. READ MORE
