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January 21st, 2020 | Posted in General
This is a pretty funny ad for car insurance featuring a live caricature artist. I’m guessing the lady is an actor and they hired someone else to do the artwork, just because that’s how showbiz works. Maybe they did find an artist who was also the kind of actor they wanted, but unlikely. Kudos to the creators to cast an older, plump lady for this role rather than some skinny young guy. The end gag is funny. Basically the same one as this video from 2008: Many years ago the local theme park I have operations at here in Minnesota did a series TV ads… READ MORE
January 14th, 2020 | Posted in General
I did the art for another little comic gag story in Viz #292 this month, on sale in the UK and via subscription elsewhere. I am enjoying these short stories and the small panel format. It’s a big departure from the larger MAD panels that are stuffed with dialogue and visual detail. The smaller format forces me to simplify the imagery/panel design in order to tell the story. The editors/production folks add the word balloons after I do the art, BTW… READ MORE
January 7th, 2020 | Posted in General
Madison Magazine, a publication for and about the capitol city of Wisconsin, did a MAD Magazine tribute issue last month that featured a bunch of MAD-like art, including work from two authentic members of the Usual Gang if Idiots. The Cover was done by MAD’s most prolific cover artist, Mark Fredrickson. I did an illustration of local Madison resident Wendy Gaines-Bucci, who happens to be the daughter of MAD founder and publisher William M. Gaines. There is a story about Wendy in the issue. The issue also contains a couple of MAD tribute pieces, including a parody format comic by Dan E. Burr, a series… READ MORE
January 3rd, 2020 | Posted in General
EDIT: Well, that didn’t take long. All 12 pages sold out within about an hour! Thanks to all who got one. Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? How about a piece of Hollywood/MAD Magazine history? In a move totally based on overspending during the holidays, I’ve got all the pages from the Mini-MAD Magazine that was produced exclusively for the special collector’s Blu-Ray edition of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, and was part of the bonus content in the packaging for sale in the Studio Store. The 5.25? x 6.75?, 24 page smaller scale MAD featured an all-new parody of the fictional late 1950’s/early 1960’s… READ MORE
January 1st, 2020 | Posted in General
My annual posting of this cheery fellow. All the best in 2020! READ MORE
December 31st, 2019 | Posted in General
I’m not sure if I am glad 2019 is over because a lot of good things happened for me professionally in 2019, but a lot of the bad stuff that happened is going to continue to impact things in 2020. The Good Stuff! I made a living as a freelancer (always #1) My work appeared in every issue of MAD Magazine (10 years straight) Spoke/taught at NCSFest in Huntington Beach, CA Taught workshops all over including Amsterdam and Switzerland Was a guest speaker at Eurocature 2019 in Vienna, Austria The whole Once Upon a Time in Hollywood/Tarantino thing Started doing work for the UK’s VIZ… READ MORE
December 28th, 2019 | Posted in General
I’m seriously considering doing a new kind of workshop here in Minnesota the last weekend of March (the 28th and 29th). This new workshop would focus on caricature illustration, where I would teach concept, composition, inking and watercolor and digital coloring, and each student would be doing an illustration “assignment” from start to finish like a freelance job. We could have three different possible assignments: a full page feature magazine illustration; a more kids orientated sports illustration, or a one page MAD Magazine like comic. I actually did something similar to this when I did my first couple of workshops here in MN before switching… READ MORE
December 27th, 2019 | Posted in General
Here’s a bunch of the commissions I did for the 2nd annual “Holiday Caricaturapalooza”. You won’t recognize anyone here (except Neil Degrasse Tyson and Alfred) as they are almost all caricatures done from photos of those who order the commissions. There are some fun images though. All done with brush/calligraphy pens and Copic markers, with the occasional touches of white out and colored pencil: I forgot to scan a couple of them. READ MORE
