An unforeseen conflict has caused me to have to switch my dates for the Seattle workshop to Sept 7-8th. Same location, same schedule, different dates! Come join us Sketchin’ in Seattle in September! READ MORE
One more workshop to announce in 2024… Boston, MA! This is probably the last one I will be scheduling in 2024. My Oct-Dec is full of personal travel and events… so it’s unlikley I will be finding time to do any other workshops beyond the ones I have already scheduled for this year. But I still have spots available in Austin, Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago and Phoenix in 2024. READ MORE
Announcing a new workshop location and date! I’m coming back to the Northwest for the first time since Portland in 2018. Grab your spot in my Seattle workshop while they are still available! READ MORE
Desmond and my book CLAPTRAP contains not only twelve full movie parodies of hugely popular films MAD never spoofed, but over 20 pages of extra material (including the funniest index in the history of modren publishing). One of the most popular extras is this “Avengers” movie poster spoof featuring the characters from “Adventure Time”. In fact, people love it so much we decided to make a standalone print of it! Get one here! READ MORE
Right on! It’s another sketch for our classic sitcom series, this time featuring Bea Arthur and Bill Macy from yet another “All in the Family” spinoff series, “Maude”. Unlike a lot of American sitcoms of the time which features large ensemble casts and the interaction between many characters, a number of “Maude” episodes would only feature Arthur and Macy, like a small set stage play. There were plenty of other people in the cast, but creator Norman Learseemed to recognize that Maude herself was so strong a central, driving character and Arthur so perfect in the role, that the focus on her character needed little… READ MORE
Clicky to Embiggen… Time for another moronic Monday look back at my work for MAD magazine! This week we revisit one of the toughest jobs MAD ever dropped on me, and how it upset even The Lovely Anna! I’m talking about MAD‘s parody of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”, written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and first appearing in MAD #540, August 2016. I often get asked how long I was given to do the art on these movie and TV parodies. Since the art is the last step of the entire process we artists usually are up against the print deadline, but… READ MORE
In a rare break from tradition, the original art of this sketch is still available! We continue with our 70’s sitcom series with the cast of “Welcome Back Kotter”, Ron Palillo, John Travolta, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Robert Hegyes, John Sylvester White and Gabe Kaplan. This show was top of my list for favorite sitcoms when I was a kid. It aired in the late seventies when I was between 9 and 13, so the timing was perfect for me to understand the jokes and themes, but also made it just a little bit “adult” and therefore felt like I was getting away with watching something I… READ MORE
CLAPTRAP now has its own mini-website! Visit claptrapbook.com for a peek inside the book and to order a copy! READ MORE
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