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
… I didn’t even have time to post this. READ MORE
September 27th, 2014 | Posted in General
I’ve been doing a lot of these for people bringing me a Monster Zero Ultra energy drink. I won’t be falling asleep at my booth, that’s for sure. With apologies to Shannon Wheeler for the post title. READ MORE
September 26th, 2014 | Posted in General
Stop by if you are at the Pittsburgh Comicon! READ MORE
September 21st, 2014 | Posted in General
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GncYQHBJIw[/youtube] I’m posting this for my kids, who loved this scene in “Guardians of the Galaxy”. READ MORE
September 19th, 2014 | Posted in General
Kind of busy right now so no time for much of a blog post today. Here’s another piece I had framed up at the same time I got the “Fools of Rock” piece done. Occasionally you get some nice perks for being president of the NCS, and this is one. If you call the great Jack Davis up and ask him if he’d be willing to do a drawing of Batman for the NCS’s Comic-Con T-shirt, and about a week later an original piece of art like this shows up in your mailbox, you get to hang it on your wall when the T-shirt production… READ MORE
September 13th, 2014 | Posted in General
A couple of weeks ago fellow caricaturist/illustrator Hamilton Cline dropped me a line to ask why I didn’t use Twitter Cards for my tweets, seeing as how most of my posts have images that would be a lot more interesting to look at than a simple URL would be. My answer was “What the $%#@ are ‘Twitter Cards’?” Well since then I have been trying to get this figured out. I’ve set up the proper code through a WordPress Plug-in (JP Twitter Cards). I have applied for a Twitter DEV account (not sure I ever got approved, actually). I have set up and validated several… READ MORE
