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August 13th, 2015 | Posted in General
One week from today I’ll be at Wizard World Comic Con Chicago, booth F-15 in Artists’ Alley. I’ll be pimping the following: Signed copies of “The Mad Art of Caricature” Original MAD artwork NEW: Various pencil sketches ranging from $25 to $75 Limited edition prints: “Men of Steel” “Bat’s in the Belfry” “The Game is Afoot” My “Presidential Caricatures” poster Assorted copies of MAD (signed) Exclusive mini-prints of my sold out James Bond print and one of my DC variant covers Commissions and caricatures I’m also doing a panel on Thursday: Thursday August 20: 5:30-6:15 PM HOW TO DRAW FUNNY! WITH MAD’S TOM RICHMOND, THE… READ MORE
August 4th, 2015 | Posted in General
My contribution to the National Cartoonists Society’s 2015 Comic-Con exclusive print. This print will also be available for purchase at the NCS’s booth at New york Comic-Con in October! The full print: READ MORE
July 31st, 2015 | Posted in General
It’s getting a little crazy in the studio, so rather than post the Deadline Demon, I thought I’d put up some old artwork. Here’s pencil sketch of Megan Fox from 2009. I did a little digital wash on it and used in my book. READ MORE
July 26th, 2015 | Posted in General
Q: Since you work digitally these days, what method do you use to send large files to your clients? A: Back in the mid to late 90’s when digital really took off, trying to get large images files to a client was a problem. There was no broadband internet or wifi, and Internet connections were very slow. Uploading a 30 mb file (roughly a full page magazine illustration in CMYK) would have taken forever, and other than email there was no real consumer options for large file transfers. I Fed Exed CDs with the images on them to clients back then… “Sneaker net” on a… READ MORE
July 23rd, 2015 | Posted in General
I have finally found some time to post the remainder of the Special Editions of my “Men of Steel” print for purchase online. If you are not familiar with the Special Editions, what I do is set aside one print for each of the caricatures in the print, and then number them “SE X/8” or however many there are. Each Special Edition comes with the original inked artwork for the correspondingly numbered character. So, for example, “Men of Steel SE 1/8” comes with the original of Superman #1, Kirk Alyn. The originals are approximately 9″ x 13″, on bristol board with ink pen and brush.… READ MORE
July 21st, 2015 | Posted in General
I’ve gotten a number of emails and comments saying that this Orphan Works thing is being taken way out of context, that it is fear mongering, that the fears about it are based on inaccuracies, and we should all just shut up. Granted, I did cut and paste the Illustrators Partnership response and call to arms without reading the current proposal, which is different than some of the past bills that have actually made it to Congress. I have since read the proposal. My take: both sides are spinning it a little too far, but the pro Orphan Works folks are doing it with their… READ MORE
July 17th, 2015 | Posted in General
Cartoon by Nick Anderson, used with permission After admittedly posting this below from the Illustrator’s Partnership without doing any research into the latest copyright reform proposal, I did said research and a few days later posted this more even-handed take on this issue. Since several people seem intent on linking only to this early post and not to the one where I agree much of what is said here in the IP response is overblown and downright misleading, here’s a link to that later post. The more recent version of the Orphan Works proposal is less awful that previous ones, but it still leave a… READ MORE
July 16th, 2015 | Posted in General
I got back late last night after a LOOOOONG drive from San Diego to Minnesota (9 states, 2000 miles, lots of regrettable choices at fast food restaurants), to find my iMac was dead… logic board fried. Never fun. Actually it started having problems just a few hours before I left for San Diego Comic Con when it started rebooting in a perpetual loop, but the techies at the Apple Store declared it dead officially today. It’s a good thing I keep backups of everything. Once I get the new iMac, I’ll be back up and running in short order. Unfortunately this delayed my being able… READ MORE
