March 27th, 2015 | Posted in General
My pal Scott Shaw! started an interesting dialog on Facebook the other day about the plethora of artists who go to comic-cons and sell prints of copyrighted characters. This is an old topic, but I admit I have seen a huge growth in the number of vendors hawking prints of the same old characters… Wolverine, Batman, just about any female superhero/villain in a porn star pose, etc.in the last few years. Some of these booths are HUGE and have literally a hundred different prints for sale. It’s too easy to print these things off on your home computer. What I’ve really noticed is a large… READ MORE
March 26th, 2015 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series
I’ll post a couple of these a week I think… not just on Wednesdays. Here’s a young Paul McCartney. READ MORE
March 24th, 2015 | Posted in General
Me, Mike Cope and Sandra Bell-Lundy at Toronto ComiCon Just returned from Toronto after spending a long weekend manning the National Cartoonists Society’s first-time booth there with freelance cartoonist Mike Cope and the creator of the syndicated daily comic strip “Between Friends” Sandra Bell-Lundy. Despite living within 400 miles of the border, I’ve never actually been to Canada until now. I learned the following twenty things while there: Canadians really do say “eh!” at the end of certain sentences. Canadians will deny this, shortly before saying “eh!” They have a lot of really good beer The dollar coin is called a “loonie” The two dollar… READ MORE
March 20th, 2015 | Posted in General
If you are attending the Toronto ComiCon this weekend, stop by and see me at the National Cartoonists Society booth #117! I’ll have copies of my book, my Sherlock and Batman LE prints, exclusive comic con print-cards and original art pages from MAD for sale, and I’ll be doing caricatures and commissions! Also meet “Between Friends” cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy, and on Saturday cartoonist/illustrator Mike Cope! The NCS will have some of it’s fantastic comic con T-shirts available as well, with art from the likes of Sergio Aaragon?¬©s, Jack Davis, Garry Trudeau, Mike Peters, Patrick McDonnell, Bill Ameca, Jim Borgman, Rick Kirkman, Jeff Keane and others!… READ MORE
March 17th, 2015 | Posted in General
I’ve done a few pieces for the Warner Bros consumer products line, and the above I did a year or two ago as a t-shirt illustration. Below are some preliminary roughs!: READ MORE
March 15th, 2015 | Posted in General
Q: I just watched the NCS awards banquet on your site (thanks for posting!), and just attended my forth International Society of Caricature Artists convention. How do these organizations differ regarding choosing award recipients, if at all? At ISCA members vote for the winner of the coveted Noseys. Is this the same with NCS–do members vote or are Reuben recipients chosen by elected board members? A: They are very different. The questioner knows all about the ISCA awards, but I’ll fill readers in on both. The International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA) hold an annual convention and competition each year. At the event, competing artists… READ MORE
March 13th, 2015 | Posted in General
Image courtesy madmagazine.com It’s a MAD dual birthday today… in fact it happens on this day every year! Yes, today is the birthday of both legendary “MAD fold-In” creator Al Jaffee and longtime MAD artist and current MAD art director Sam Viviano. You see above Al accepting Sam’s award for picking such an excellent date for his birthday, and Al thinking how nice it is to know he could still crush Sam’s hand like a rotten egg despite having been born 32 years earlier. Al is 94 today, and still delivers his completed MAD assignments to the offices by hand, and they are still as… READ MORE
March 10th, 2015 | Posted in General
I’m trying to make some room in the studio, and I ran across a small stack of this MAD variant cover I did last year from DC Comic’s Batman/Superman #10, which I just listed in the Studio Store, signed and everything. These were made in very limited quantities. There were no MAD variant covers this year, which was a real bummer. Those were very fun to do. Maybe DC will do something like that again in the future. READ MORE
