While I’m on my world cartooning tour there might be a few of these old videos from my 1993 live caricature demo reel posted here. Here’s one of SNL alumni Mike Myers and Dana Carvey from “Wayne’s Word”. READ MORE
I recently became hooked on Tall Tale Radio, a podcast show that focuses on the cartooning and comics industry, after my friend Stephen Pastis told me about it. Tall Tale Radio is hosted by Tom Racine, who shows a great deal of knowledge about cartooning and clearly loves the art form. The show’s format is focused on interviews with cartoonists and industry experts, and features some pretty big names from various areas of cartooning like comic strips, web comics, comic books, graphic novels, animation… you name it. As of this writing Tom has 52 shows that “air” on Mondays and run about 25 minutes. Some… READ MORE
This is just a quick note to apologize to those who have ordered copies of my MAD book “Bo Confidential” with either a Bo or Alfred sketch, or more recently with a caricature sketch of someone from a photo in the last several weeks for the delays on getting these books out. I have been working feverishly on a couple of jobs which have impending deadlines, and will still be tied up through the weekend on them. I have not forgotten about you, and I appreciate your order and your patience. Next week I have Tuesday slated to do all the sketches and caricatures and… READ MORE
Click for a closer look… I was given this great little gem by fellow Minnesota cartoonist David Phipps at our recent NCS Chapter meeting. He ran across it as an antique store or some such recently and thought of me, being a huge Mort Drucker fan. This is the cover of a comedy album from 1966, coincidentally the year I was born. On the album are comedy sketch with impersonators John Byner, David Frye and Will Jordan doing the voices of all kinds of politicians, celebrities and other characters. Obviously Mort did the cover art, chock full of his usual caricature brilliance. My favorite one… READ MORE
The North Central Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society had our annual fall meeting this past weekend in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Organized by former (and long time) chairman Ken Alvine, the chapter had several planned activities and speakers over two days. On Friday, eight or so of us went to Sioux Falls’ Lincoln High School to participate in “Career Day”. We set up individually in the library and talked to small groups of students about what we do and how we do it, and answered their questions. It is always great getting to talk with kids about what being a cartoonist is all about…… READ MORE
Having grown up mostly on the east side of the Mississippi in Wisconsin, and having suffered through the 80’s as a Green Bay fan, here’s what I’m hoping to see when the Packers take on the Vikings tonight… but it’ll be a tough one. READ MORE
Being too busy to post on the blog in today’s market is a good thing. READ MORE
YES! Yet another in a seemingly endless supply of time lapse videos from the infamous 1993 caricature demo reel that played in fine shopping mall caricatures locations the world over… um, in a few different states anyway. This is an earlier caricature I did of Bill Cosby, which I replaced some years later with this much better one: But… enjoy the video anyway. The guy who did the editing selected the music. Personally I would have gone with some generic jazz music with a Cosby drawing, but he went with the twanging country tune for the first bit. Go figure. The second tune selection is… READ MORE
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