Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all you Irish folks out there! This is my annual posting o’the Alfred leprechaun illustration I did years ago for a T-shirt for MAD/DC. But WAIT… here’s a sneak peek at something much more recent… Could this be an updated Alfred E. Leprechaun T-shirt? I’ll let you know when I’m allowed to let you know! READ MORE
An unforeseen conflict has caused me to have to switch my dates for the Seattle workshop to Sept 7-8th. Same location, same schedule, different dates! Come join us Sketchin’ in Seattle in September! READ MORE
One more workshop to announce in 2024… Boston, MA! This is probably the last one I will be scheduling in 2024. My Oct-Dec is full of personal travel and events… so it’s unlikley I will be finding time to do any other workshops beyond the ones I have already scheduled for this year. But I still have spots available in Austin, Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago and Phoenix in 2024. READ MORE
Announcing a new workshop location and date! I’m coming back to the Northwest for the first time since Portland in 2018. Grab your spot in my Seattle workshop while they are still available! READ MORE
Desmond and my book CLAPTRAP contains not only twelve full movie parodies of hugely popular films MAD never spoofed, but over 20 pages of extra material (including the funniest index in the history of modren publishing). One of the most popular extras is this “Avengers” movie poster spoof featuring the characters from “Adventure Time”. In fact, people love it so much we decided to make a standalone print of it! Get one here! READ MORE
Clicky to Embiggen… Time for another moronic Monday look back at my work for MAD magazine! This week we revisit one of the toughest jobs MAD ever dropped on me, and how it upset even The Lovely Anna! I’m talking about MAD‘s parody of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”, written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and first appearing in MAD #540, August 2016. I often get asked how long I was given to do the art on these movie and TV parodies. Since the art is the last step of the entire process we artists usually are up against the print deadline, but… READ MORE
CLAPTRAP now has its own mini-website! Visit claptrapbook.com for a peek inside the book and to order a copy! READ MORE
Welcome good citizens to another Moronic Monday of Mayhem as we look back at my work for MAD Magazine! We are actually going to take another break from work for actual issues of the magazine with yet another side project I did at this point in our chronological crawl, being spring 2016. The MAD folks came up with an idea to do a series of parodies of children’s books set in the world of DC comics superheroes (spoiler: MAD is owned by DC!) They asked me to do the art for the first book, a spoof of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd‘s classic Goodnight… READ MORE
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