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September 14th, 2021 | Posted in General
As promised, here’s the cover of Des Devlin and my upcoming book, CLAPTRAP. Like the rest of the book, this was a collaborative effort. The concept was mine but Des contributed a good number of the gags (okay, he wrote all the funny ones). This is a “wraparound” cover so I had to consider the spine and fold areas in the center when doing the composition. This was a nice breather from doing the interiors, but it’s back to that tomorrow! READ MORE
September 10th, 2021 | Posted in General
I took this picture (and maaaaaaybe did a little photoshop work on it) years ago as part of a gag for a presentation I was doing on cartooning. Then I posted it on my blog. It’s become a frequently used meme image and not a week goes by without someone sending me an email saying they saw it on Reddit or Facebook or wherever and did I know someone was using it? Yes, I do. Can I do anything about it? No, I can’t. It’s out there and there is no reeling it back in. I think if I had a dime for everytime someone… READ MORE
September 7th, 2021 | Posted in General
My CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and I have been keeping our work on the book purposefully under wraps after revealing the splash pages for four different parodies, but this week we thought we’d give you another sneak peek at some of the book… this time part of the cover art! Last week I decided to take a break from working on the interiors of the book to tackle the cover. I had to wait to do the cover until we had all our target movies selected, and once we did I decided to wait a bit longer so I could have a bunch of the… READ MORE
September 6th, 2021 | Posted in General
This is traditionally the last day of summer in the U.S. Enjoy. As they say in Westeros… “winter is coming.” READ MORE
September 3rd, 2021 | Posted in General
If you haven’t read any of Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier‘s “Groo the Wanderer” comics, then you are missing out on on one of the greatest humorous comics ever created, and that is most definitely NOT hyperbole. Groo’s been around for over 40 years, and his adventures have been published by five differents labels over the decades, currently Dark Horse Comics. There are a LOT of Groo comics out there, including a 120 issue run published by Marvel/Epic from 1985-1995, and many, many multiple issue mini-series. Fortunately they are all enjoyable stories in themselves so you need not start at his first appearance. In fact,… READ MORE
August 31st, 2021 | Posted in General
I had a lot of fun doing that illustration for CNN’s “History of the Sitcom” series, but one of the disappointing things about doing it was all the great characters we had to leave out. Not just the many shows that were not represented at all in the art, but important characters from depicted shows that weren’t included. In order to represent as many shows as possible, they had me only draw a few characters from each show. For the most part it worked. For example, only drawing Jimmy Walker and Esther Rolle from “Good Times” left out some other great main actors from the… READ MORE
August 15th, 2021 | Posted in General
Q: Do you ever get criticized or praised for people perceiving your work as similar to Mort Drucker? I see the differences, but just was wondering how you as an artist have dealt with that comparison. A: I spent 20 years drawing caricature/likeness based movie and TV parodies for MAD Magazine. The comparisons to Mort Drucker and other famous MAD artists like Jack Davis, Angelo Torres, etc are inevitable. I have a drawing style based on line (as opposed to values like a painter), my caricatures lean more toward likeness than exaggeration, and my storytelling comes from a comic book background. Anyone who does that… READ MORE
August 10th, 2021 | Posted in General
Last year’s virtual NCSFest and Reuben Awards weekend, conducted jointly with the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, was a pretty big success, so the National Cartoonists Society is doing it again in 2021. On October 15th & 16th, the NCS will live stream a combination of speaker/panel programming and the Reuben Awards themselves on NCSFEST.com and COMICARTFESTIVAL.com, which will intermingled with the live-streamed programming of the Lakes Festival taking place simultaneously from Kendall, UK. There is also some events that both the NSC and the Lakes folks will be doing together. Just like last year, the programing will run over a specified time, but individual… READ MORE
