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July 14th, 2009 | Posted in General
The incomparable Jermy Brett Last month I wrote this post about my lack of confidence in the upcoming Guy Ritchie film “Sherlock” starring Robert Downy Jr. as literature’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. As I said in that post, I am actually a fan of both Ritchie and Downey Jr., but also as a fan of Sherlock Holmes I find it difficult to believe I will like that film. You can read the post if you want the details. In that post I confessed to not having much exposure to the many films, TV shows and plays featuring the Great Detective. My expertise with Holmes begins… READ MORE
July 10th, 2009 | Posted in General
The phrase “be careful what you wish for” comes to mind today as I post another time-lapse video from my 1993 “demo reel” of live caricature samples I used in some of my mall locations. This subject is Bruce Willis. Of all the ones I did on this original video, this one might stand up the best as Willis looks much the same… just craggier. READ MORE
July 9th, 2009 | Posted in General
Many times I have sang the praises of writer extraordinaire Mark Evanier‘s blog, an example of blogging at it’s entertaining and informative best. Mark recently wrote about a topic he occasionally touches on… the dreaded “working on spec” issue. Well, not exactly working on spec as that implies working on an actual project for a professional client. I’m talking about the jobs that come along from someone with a million dollar idea but a ten dollar bank account who only needs your work to complete the idea and to make the millions… whereupon you will then share in the riches. I’ve blogged about these issues… READ MORE
July 7th, 2009 | Posted in General
… I ran across this yesterday courtesy of the Wisenhiemer cartoonist’s forum: That’s right. This genius actually emailed the copyright owner of images he had stolen off said owner’s website, (using hotlinks and stealing his bandwidth no less) and threatened to SUE HIM unless he puts the images back up immediately. You can see more email fun and read the whole story here. Honestly, I hope this is just an urban legend and the link above is a gag. Yes, there really are people that ignorant and uneducated about the basics of copyright operating businesses out there, but more shocking is the example of the… READ MORE
July 6th, 2009 | Posted in General
As long as we are talking a lot this week about theme park caricatures, display samples, etc., here are three new samples I drew and painted while working at Valleyfair last week. Frequent readers of The MAD Blog will recognize these as past drawings from the “Sketch o’the Week”: Could not resist adding the lollypop… READ MORE
July 3rd, 2009 | Posted in General
I spent a rare day yesterday drawing live caricatures at my Valleyfair concessions. Here’s some pictures of our three locations at the park and some of the live ones I did. READ MORE
June 29th, 2009 | Posted in General
I am returning today from a trip visiting my caricatures operations in the St. Louis, MO area at Union Station and Six Flags. READ MORE
June 27th, 2009 | Posted in General
…from an old sketchbook. I thought it might be timely. Say what you want about Michael Jackson, but he was definitley two things: One of the most popular and influential recording artists in the history of American pop music, and the poster child for what money and fame can do to a person without a solid childhood upbringing as a foundation. READ MORE
