I don’t spend much time on Google+ but I do have a plug in that feeds my blog posts to my wall there. Today I stopped in to notice an interesting bit of cropping done on my post from last week featuring a drawing of The Lovely Anna: I know it’s automated but… really??? READ MORE
Six years ago I had my wife, The Lovely Anna, be my first (and last) guest blogger here on The MAD Blog. She wrote the following post about being the wife of a freelancer which I am reposting today because I am still on vacation (with The Lovely Anna) so I don’t have time to write and neither does she. All she says here is still true over six years later except we’ve now been married 26 years, all our kids are graduated from high school and either off living life or going to college (except The Animated Elizabeth, who will be home with us… READ MORE
I wrote the following on the NCS Website yesterday, but I thought it should be shared here also: October is National Bullying Prevention Month in the United States. Founded in 2006 by PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center, October is the month when communities nationwide focus efforts to educate and raise awareness of bullying prevention. Over 30 cartoonists lend their voices to the fight against bullying in this “Flip Comic” book Bullying is No Laughing Matter that helps educate readers about this problem that is being called a “national epidemic”. The book has two halves, printed so you “flip” the book over to read each half… READ MORE
Found out today that my book The Mad Art of Caricature! is totally out of stock on Amazon here in the US. I can’t quite figure out how Amazon works with its ordering copies from the publisher (i.e. me) in order to keep items in stock. It is obviously automated, as I will sometimes get two or three POs right on top of each other asking for copies to be sent in, but they are weird quantities like 2, 7 or 11 at a time, sometimes on consecutive days. The distributor (i.e. me) can have a standing request for “case quantity”, but Amazon will totally… READ MORE
The Lovely Anna and I are back from New York Comic Con. It was a crazy, busy convention. I think it was actually more manic than San Diego… maybe that’s just because it’s approaching the same attendance levels but squeezed into a smaller area. Not having my own booth at SDCC I am not sure how I’d do under the same circumstances. All I know is I was swamped from open to close doing caricatures and commissions. Here’s some pictures from the show, including a couple of drawings I did: Abrams Publishing editor Charlie Kochman, MAD art director Ryan Flanders, me and MAD artist/illustrator Ray… READ MORE
On the way to NYC right now so no time for a proper SotW. Here’s the pencil roughs for my latest Marlin poster job. This cop-out brought to you by Too Much Travel cereal. READ MORE
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