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January 15th, 2021 | Posted in General
In the last 8 months or so I have been doing a surprising number of private and corporate commissions that call for original art as opposed to digital. While I can hem and haw my way through a painting like that reasonably well, it has been so long since I did a lot of traditional art jobs I felt like I needed a refresher course in working in watercolor. So, I looked up a former instructor from my art college days who I knew lived in my area, and asked if he was interested in spending a couple of hours working with me on my… READ MORE
January 14th, 2021 | Posted in General
I had a nice surprise is the mail yesterday. My plaque for winning the National Cartoonists Society Divisional award, aka the “Silver Reuben” for “Best in Magazine/Newspaper Illustration” for 2019 arrived on my doorstep, and was not stolen by porch pirates. Yes, this is 2021 and this was for 2019, but the mail is slow during a pandemic! Actually as there was no in-person NCS Reuben Award Weekend this year, the awards and speaking program were done virtually back in September as part of NCSFest, so it hasn’t been all that long since the awards were announced (BTW if you want to see any of… READ MORE
January 12th, 2021 | Posted in General
Back in the 90’s I owned several caricature operations at some tourist-centric shopping and entertainment venues around the country. I had operations at Underground Atlanta in Atlanta GA, Union Station in St. Louis, MO, and Mall of America here in Minnesota (the mall part, nit in what was then “Camp Snoopy” theme park). I was always trying to figure out ways to make the displays more dynamic and eye catching. One way I thought would be great was to add a video element to the display. This was 1993, well before anybody with a laptop, a smartphone camera, and basic editing software, could put together… READ MORE
January 8th, 2021 | Posted in General
So many people liked the MAD cover commission I posted yesterday I thought I’d share another one I did for that same virtual NYCC event last October. Fans of the Twilight Zone will get the gag. READ MORE
January 7th, 2021 | Posted in General
Back on the last weekend of February I was sitting at my artist’s alley table at C2E2 in Chicago, listening to people discuss this new virus that was raging through China and speculating if it would affect us in any way here in the US. Oh, what innocent little lambs we were. Little did I know that was the last time I’d be at a comic con, or any other gathering of more than about 20 people, for the rest of 2020. We take so many things for granted in life, and it isn’t until we lose something that we realize it. With the advent… READ MORE
January 1st, 2021 | Posted in General
2020 was a rough one, to say the least. Here’s to a better 2021! READ MORE
December 31st, 2020 | Posted in General
Happy final day of 2020! Just to make sure this awesome year goes out with an Alderaan-sized bang, Des Devlin and I released our full “Star Worse: Plagiarizing Skywalker” parody to all our awesome CLAPTRAP Indiegogo backers as promised today! If you backed our CLAPTRAP book at any level, you should be getting the entire nine page tour-de-farce as a PDF in your email inbox shortly! Here’s a sneak peek at a few panels from the parody. If you didn’t back our project, it’s not too late! You can still pre-order the book here, and get the full length Star Wars spoof PDF right away!… READ MORE
December 25th, 2020 | Posted in General
Happiest of holidays to everyone… wishing peace, health and happiness to all. READ MORE
