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October 5th, 2018 | Posted in General
I will be returning to Seengen, Switzerland in 2019 to conduct not one but TWO workshops on back to back weekends, again all organized through the Cartoon-Schule, a Swiss cartooning art school. The workshops will be on June 28-30th and July 5-7th, held again at the scenic Eichberg Hotel in Seengen, about an hour outside of Zurich. These workshops are organized by the Cartoon-Schule, and they do all the booking, registration, determine the costs and logistics, etc. I conduct them just like my other workshops, same basic itinerary and structure. They are done in English. I am told they already have enough students to fill… READ MORE
October 4th, 2018 | Posted in General
NYCC starts today at the Javits Center, New York City! You’ll find The Lovely Anna and I at booth L-6 in the new Artists Alley, and will also be on the “Mad about MAD” panel on Sunday at 10:45 AM, room 1A21. READ MORE
October 2nd, 2018 | Posted in General
Check out this really cool mini-documentary on my caricature workshops by filmmaker, artist, and workshop alum Greg Feinberg! Thanks, Greg! You can see his work at www.gregfaces.com. More workshops dates and locations for 2019 soon to be announced!! READ MORE
September 21st, 2018 | Posted in General
The internet can be a wonderful thing, but it does have a significantly ugly underbelly. One of the worst aspects of the internet is that it has trained a generation of users that anything they can find on the web is theirs to use as they wish, simply because no one is there to stop them from stealing it and using it. The result is that “intellectual property” i.e. stuff people create like art, writing, photography, etc. has become devalued. Far too many internet users think they everything on the web should (and is) free for the taking. People who would would never dream of… READ MORE
September 18th, 2018 | Posted in General
There’s yet another lively discussion at the International Society of Caricature Artists Facebook page going on, this time about street, fair, theme park, etc. (known collectively as “retail” caricaturists, meaning they sell their work directly to their subjects as opposed to “gig” caricaturists, who are paid by a client to draw the people at the client’s event) putting up work on their display boards that are not their art but caricatures by others stolen from the internet. You see it a lot in tourist trap areas like Times Square, Montmartre, Leicester Square, etc. I’ve blogged about this multiple times. Like here. And here. Oh, and… READ MORE
September 14th, 2018 | Posted in General
I am a member of an organization called the International Society of Caricature Artists (which, incidentally, I heartily recommend to anyone doing caricature professionally at any level). Right now there is a lively discussion going on on their members-only Facebook page about the trials and tribulations of what many call “cookie cutter caricature” and what I call “generic caricature”. I thought it would make a good topic for an article here. Briefly, “generic” caricature is when a caricature artist draws the same features over and over again on everyone, regardless of what that subject actually looks like, and is often seen in live caricature done… READ MORE
September 11th, 2018 | Posted in General
Too much travel and not enough studio time. READ MORE
September 10th, 2018 | Posted in General
I was a guest at Rose City Comic Con this past weekend. One of the things I do at these shows are full color “sketch covers” done on one of the blank cover variants of MAD. Sadly it was not a very busy convention for us, but I did this sketch cover as a sample for the booth. Done using brush pens, copic parkers and a touch of colored pencil. READ MORE
