I definitely get some interesting commission requests when I do comic cons or “Virtual” Artist Alleys. This was one of the more interesting ones I got from the VAA I did back in March… Groucho Marx as “The Comedian” done as a live caricature style sketch. READ MORE
I’ve lately been posting all these “mock” MAD Magazine cover commissions I’ve been doing, so it’s nice that I can now finally show the REAL MAD cover I did a few weeks ago. The gang at MAD (can you call two people, Suzy Hutchinson and Bern Mendoza, a “gang”? I guess so… of IDIOTS!) just revealed the cover of MAD #20, with art by me! This one was a very last second job for reasons I won’t go into. The image is obviously based on what was the “placeholder” image for the advanced solicitations of the issue: A “placeholder” cover is an image the publisher… READ MORE
Here’s few more “mock” MAD cover commissions from my last “Virtual Artist’s Alley” event. Brush pens and Copic markers on bristol. Note I now add a tagline to the top of the cover! I suddenly realized since I am doing these at home and not at a comic con at an actual Artist’s Alley table, I can add a custom tagline via my studio printer right on the professionally printed “MAD” bristol cover stock. I sure am doing a lot of these fake MAD cover commissions. Wouldn’t it be nice to do another ACTUAL MAD cover? That would be really cool… READ MORE
It’s yet another mind-bending episode of our chronological caper through my work at MAD Magazine! This week’s episode is a three page feature entitled “Is Our World Really All That different from The Matrix?”, written by MAD editor Greg Leitman and appearing in MAD #436, Dec 2003. Most of these gags involved 2003 current events that, if you don’t remember those events, won’t make much sense. The guy reading the New York Times on the third page was a reporter named Jayson Blair who got busted for fabricating and plagiarising work he had published in the Times. Madonna and Britney Spears kissed on the 2003… READ MORE
And now for something completely different… here’s a pretty obscure commission request. You’ll only recognize this one is you’ve seen the movie “Chappie” or you are into the South African hip-hop scene. This “mock MAD cover” commission from my last “Virtual Artist’s Alley” event features the music duo “Die Antwoord” from the movie “Chappie”. Brush pens and Copic markers on bristol. READ MORE
Q: Do you think that going to college for art after high school is necessary or super important? I’ve had some people tell me yes and others say no, but I was curious of what the opinion of someone who has been in the art industry for years would have to say. I would like to go into a career in illustration, whether that be comics, magazines, covers, books, etc. I was planning on applying to college this year in order to go this coming fall, but due to Covid, I decided it would be a better idea to hold off a year and just… READ MORE
Here’s another of my “Virtual Artist’s Alley” commissions. Having just finished a big corporate job that took nearly 4 weeks to complete, I had to put everything on hold for almost a month. However, I am spending the next few days wrapping up the last few of these I have to do. If you are waiting for one, they should all be shipped by Monday! Then, it’s back to CLAPTRAP. READ MORE
It’s serious crunch time on this corporate/advertising job that’s eaten my life for the last three weeks, so no posts for a day or two. If you are looking for something interesting to read, my CLAPTRAP co-conspirator Desmond Devlin has written his theories as to why MAD did not do spoofs of the 12 movies we are doing in the book. You can find that in the latest two updates on our Indiegogo page. READ MORE
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