2008 Cover art for the now-defunct MAD Kids To all my friends and family from the United States, at home or abroad, The Richmonds wish you the happiest of holidays and hope you find yourselves together with your loved ones on this day of thanks. For everyone else… carry on. READ MORE
It seems that my trying to get fancy using some old fashioned HTML table coding on “The Great MAD Art Sale” page resulted in a lot of browsers (mainly Windows Internet Explorer) having trouble seeing the thumbnails and images… I’ve dispensed with tables coding so everything should be working fine now. My apologies. Despite the technical glitches quite a few of the pieces are already gone or spoken for… thanks for those who have purchased some of this crap… uh… original art from the pages of MAD. Those who are just thinking about buying something… what are you waiting for?? READ MORE
I usually don’t blog much about sports, but I have to say as a lifelong Green Bay Packers fan yesterday’s merciless beating of Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings, 31-3 at their home stadium was pretty satisfying. File this one under” “You reap what you sow”. Favre went out of his way to give a big F you to Packers fans, GM Ted Thompson and the Green Bay front office by maneuvering his way to one of their chief rivals. A cushy early schedule in 2009 and an amazing run of good luck and good bounces combined with some admittedly great play on his part… READ MORE
In honor of the premiere of the newest Harry Potter movie this week, here’s a study of Bellatrix herself, Helena Bonham Carter. READ MORE
Now that we have left the area we are allowed to say our cartoonist’s USO tour spent three days in Afghanistan, specifically Kandahar and FOBs in the southern part of the country. The picture was taken at the Kandahar Air Field prior to one of our trips to outlying camps to draw for the deployed troops. I thought maybe the soldiers might get a look at me in the gear and think I was Special Forces, but it turns out they thought I was Special Ed. A full description of the trip is coming next week. READ MORE
Rick “Baby Blues” Kirkman and I draw for U. S. Army SGT Jason Gilbert of East Lake, OH Our band of cartoonists are still drawing away at an undisclosed location in the war zone in the middle east, and as US Military¬¨‚Ćrules won’t allow me to say where we are or when we return, I’ll have to wait until I get back to share our experiences… which have been amazing. The above picture is courtesy of the USO, and can be seen here along with several other images and a brief story about the first stop on our tour in Landstuhl, Germany. READ MORE
Sorry, but I can’t figure out how to scan or upload a sketch this week from here in the middle east. I can barely find internet access to communicate back home. This is an old one from the tour we did last year to Iraq and Kuwait. I’ll make up for it next week… READ MORE
Being on this USO tour I am missing the annual Convention and Competition of the International Society of Caricature Artists. going on this week in Las Vegas. I wrote about they event a few weeks ago… I cannot recommend the ISCA or it’s convention more highly for anyone who does caricatures professionally, either live or for some other purpose like print illustration or animation. I am wishing the best for the ISCA convention attendees. They are sure to be having a great time. READ MORE
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