If you are going to be at Michigan Comic Convention at the Cobo Center in Detroit, be sure and get one of these FREE posters when you arrive! I did the art, and they are giving them away to convention attendees (while supplies last). Bring it by my booth and I’ll sign it for you! READ MORE
One of the scheduled participants in my workshop in Denver next month has a sudden issue and we are looking for someone to take his spot. I’m offering a $100 discount off the usual $500 tuition for anyone willing to fill in on such short notice. Visit this page to grab this spot! READ MORE
We had a lot of old school subjects for our warmups last weekend. Here’s one of 60/70’s music icon Joni Mitchell. Funny, I spend some time at each workshop teaching people that cheekbones are usually much higher on the face than most people draw them, and then they pick a subject for a warm-up who has unusually low (and big) cheekbones. READ MORE
Michael Cavna writes a story about how the Tarantino prop covers all came together for his “Comic Riffs” feature on the Washington Post website. READ MORE
We spent a little more time on this one at the workshop just because the photo reference had a lot of heavy shadows so we had to do a lot of values to get anything that worked. READ MORE
Holy Media Overload, Batman! An interview with me about the Tarantino film art and the process behind it posted today on the Motion Picture Association of America’s “The Credits” feature, written by noted film critic and author Nell Minow. I think my Warholian 15 minutes might be in play. READ MORE
David Levin‘s marvelous Pop Goes the Culture TV show has been doing a series of interviews with “The Usual Gang of Idiots” about the end of original content in the regular issues of the magazine. He must be reaching the bottom of the barrel because a new episode just got posted featuring me as a guest, recorded live from my studio in beautiful downtown Burnsville. Visit David’s YouTube Channel to see interviews with former MAD editors Joe Raiola and Charlie Kadau, and MAD artist Ray Alma, with more to come I am told. In fact, check out his other episodes of the show featuring an… READ MORE
I try really hard when I do a comic-con to only do commissions while there, and not ahead of time or take them home and ship them later. This is for two reasons. First, it makes this kind of thing unique in that you can only get one these from me at a comic con, and it’s (mostly) the only time I work in brush pen and Copic markers. Second, I am usually swamped with freelance work right after being away from the studio, so it takes me a while to get to any commissions, which I always feel bad about. The Lovely Anna is… READ MORE
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