October 21st, 2014 | Posted in General
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
October 17th, 2014 | Posted in General
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
October 14th, 2014 | Posted in General
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
October 9th, 2014 | Posted in General
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October 8th, 2014 | Posted in General
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
October 5th, 2014 | Posted in General
Q: Regarding drawing, how far have you had to progress?¬¨‚Ć As a young artist, I was wondering if you could show us some of your early drawings from maybe your childhood? A: I posted these some months back, so if you’ve seen this already my apologies. Here’s a comic I did at about age 9 or so: Guess I ran out of story… How far have I progressed? Not much. Thanks to Taylor Miles Clark for the question. If you have a question you want answered for the mailbag about cartooning, illustration, MAD Magazine, caricature or similar, e-mail me and I’ll try and answer… READ MORE
October 3rd, 2014 | Posted in General
One of the highlights of the Pittsburgh Comicon I attended last weekend was meeting the great Bob Camp. What was even better was the way it happened. Partway through the show I was walking back to my booth space after a little walk around when I saw that Bob Camp had a booth space right behind where I was located. Bob is best known for his work on the “Ren and Stimpy” show, but has a much longer resume including doing movie and TV parodies for Marvel’s Crazy magazine. I have been a fan of his work for a long time, and made a note… READ MORE
September 30th, 2014 | Posted in General
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