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June 5th, 2015 | Posted in General
Wow, two blog posts headlines in German in a row? The reason behind this one is not as pleasant as yesterdays. Right now The Munich Comic Festival is going on in, you guessed it, Munich, Germany. This year they are giving their lifetime achievement award, called the “Peng!” to MAD artist Tom Bunk… a very deserving and fantastic cartoonist. The frestival is the second largest of its kind in Germany, and boasts a lot of publishers in a huge book fair, professional comics artists doing workshops and signing autographs/sketching, and various presentations and lectures on the artform and the industry. Sounds like a great event.… READ MORE
May 29th, 2015 | Posted in General
One of the highlights of the NCS Reuben Weekend was the cake we had made as part of the King Features 100th Anniversary celebration last Friday. Fans of the Food Network’s “Ace of Cakes” show know Duff Goldman and his team of pastry artists at Charm City Cakes. Since the 2015 Reuben Awards Weekend was in nearby Washington D.C., we decided to pay Charm City Cakes a visit in Baltimore with an eye on having a cake made honoring King Feature’s Centennial. What you see is what they came up with. Here’s my original design: It was an adventure in more ways than one. First,… READ MORE
May 24th, 2015 | Posted in General
Here is the gigantically disappointing reason behind my series of caricatures of all 44 U.S. Presidents: The Lovely Anna framed all the originals and used them as the centerpieces for the tables at the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards banquet last night. Each table was the “President’s Table”, with the corresponding number for each president, my caricature, a beautiful vase with blossoms, and a hand painted box with the years of the president’s term(s) written on it. Inside that box were little items representing that president (peanuts for Carter, a little baseball for Taft, a old fashioned radio mic for FDR, etc), and fun facts… READ MORE
May 7th, 2015 | Posted in General
The last few Decembers I have been part of a group of fellow cartoonists that have traveled to the beautiful city of Boise, ID to help raise money for a wonderful organization called the Wyakin Warriors Foundation. The WW supports wounded U.S. soldiers by not just paying for their post-service education, but by supporting them in every meaningful way to give them the tools to complete their education and get jobs in their fields. According to recent statistics, only 10% of wounded veterans manage to finish school after leaving the service. The WW graduation rate? 100%. That’s because of the incredible support system they have… READ MORE
May 1st, 2015 | Posted in General
I’ll be at booth A52 tonight, Saturday and Sunday doing sketches and caricatures, selling prints and books, other goodies, and signing MADs! On Saturday join me and Simpsons/Muppet Babies artist Phil Ortiz for a talk on doing humorous comics, moderated by Crazy Magazine’s Larry Hama! READ MORE
April 27th, 2015 | Posted in General
The Lovely Anna and I were busy and had a lot of fun at C2E2 in Chicago this past weekend. Here are some of the drawings and “sketch covers” I did over the three day event… This one was probably my favorite of the weekend… Caricature of a guy who wanted to be drawn as Al Bundy… can’t believe I still remember what the living room looks like. Subject… … drawring Subject… …drawring. Son Tom and daughter Victoria will appreciate this last one… READ MORE
April 6th, 2015 | Posted in General
Last week I posted about how we got the ending of the parody of “X2: X-Men United” wrong thanks to working from a script in advance of the film’s release. When we used to try doing that, we’d occasionally have a panel or so with a scene that didn’t make the final movie, but I thought X2 was the only movie we got the ending wrong. An astute e-mailer pointed out we also got the ending of the parody of “Watchmen” wrong. Forgot about that one. It wasn’t as drastic a difference as X2, but they did change things a bit from the script Desmond… READ MORE
March 28th, 2015 | Posted in General
I’ve been posting individual caricatures from my book The Mad Art of Caricature! the last few months on Instagram and on my Twitter feed, but they don’t show up here on the blog. Usually it’s a sketch a day, either an original or a golden oldie. If you don’t follow me on Instagram or Twitter, get on the bus! READ MORE
