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October 3rd, 2024 | Posted in General
The reason I was drawing Mads Mikkelsen (see yesterday’s Sketch o’the Week) live in front of an audience was that I was a guest at the Art-Bubble Comic Arts Festival a few weekends ago in Aarhus, Denmark. There is a big difference between a European Comic Arts Festival and a United States Comic Arts Convention. The former is a more intimate, personal celebration of the art of comics and cartooning, and people who create them. The latter is a huge sea of humanity where the focus is mostly on commerce, cosplay, TV/movies and celebrity photo/autograph ops. Don’t get me wrong, I love doing comic-cons. Amid… READ MORE
September 19th, 2024 | Posted in General
I’m a guest at the Art-Bubble Comic Arts Festival this weekend in Aarhus, Denmark! I’ll be teaching a children’s workshop on drawing caricatures, doing a presentation about MAD movie parodies, signing stuff and eating hot dogs. If you happen to be hanging around Aarhus this weekend stop on by! READ MORE
September 2nd, 2024 | Posted in General
…also known as the unofficial last day of summer and the final day of the Minnesota State Fair, where you can get nearly anything deep fried on a stick. READ MORE
July 13th, 2024 | Posted in General
I’ve had several sudden cancellations for my workshop here in Minnesota taking place Sept 7-8 in nearby Eagan. Three spots are now open for a workshop that has been sold out for months. These are the only workshop spots still available for 2024. If you were ever considering doing one of these and are nearby or don’t mind traveling, the workshops I have here in Minnesota are by far the best ones to take, if for no other reason than the extra night of fun and camaraderie I host on the Friday night before the workshop weekend. The hotel I do the workshop in is… READ MORE
June 15th, 2024 | Posted in General
Last weekend The Lovely Anna and I travelled to Stockbridge, MA for the opening of “What Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine”, an exhibit of original art from the pages of MAD spanning the magazine’s entire 72 year history hanging at the Norman Rockwell Museum. I’ve been to a few exhibits of MAD art, and while they have all been good this one is by far the most comprehensive and complete. Usually these exhibits concentrate on certain eras of MAD, often the early Harvey Kurtzman comic book era or the Al Feldstein years where the format of the magazine is most familiar… READ MORE
June 11th, 2024 | Posted in General
If you watched the Sonoma NASCAR race event this past weekend you may have seen some of my work on display. TBS had me do a “NASCAR” version of the stars of “Impractical Jokers” using the same caricatures I did for last season’s key art, because James “Murr” Murray was the honorary Grand Marshall of the race. I did the car and the figures, they did the background. READ MORE
June 4th, 2024 | Posted in General
I’ll be appearing on 4C Comics LIVE tonight doing sketches and commissions to benefit the National Cartoonists Society Foundation! Join in here at 4 PM PT/7 PM ET: https://www.youtube.com/live/chDug6YevRQ READ MORE
June 3rd, 2024 | Posted in General
I taught a workshop in Atlanta this past weekend. We ended up with a little bit larger group than normal and there was a higher than usual number of pro caricature artists thanks to the participation of a number of artists from A.J. Jensen‘s The Toonheadz caricature company. It was a great group and we had a lot of fun drawing together all weekend! If you want to participate in one of my workshops this year, you are running out of time! Chicago and Boston are sold out, and I have only two spots left in Phoenix. The one in Minnesota I just added has… READ MORE
