The Lovely Anna and I are in our traditional Friday Comic-Con shirts today, even though our “booth” is virtual. We are only open through Sunday, so visit our Virtual San Diego Comic-Con booth to buy goodies or original art commissions while you still can! READ MORE
San Diego Comic-Con was supposed to start today, but of course the event was cancelled and no one was able to go… so they brought San Diego Comic-Con to YOU! Comic-Con @ Home opened today and features online panels, watch parties, other goodies, and a virtual exhibitor’s hall features many of the vendors that would have been at SDCC starting today… including me! I’ve opened my “Virtual Comic-Con Booth” again, but only through Sunday July 26th to coincide with the dates of San Diego Comic-Con. Once again I am offering the various Comic-Con level commissions, products and pricing. I also have copies of all my… READ MORE
The printed copies of Sketch o’the Week Vol. 3: Coronacature Edition just dropped on my doorstep, so this is going from “preorder” to “in stock” today! We’ll be busy getting all the preorders shipped out tomorrow and the next day. We are down to only 17 original sketch editions left (that’s the one where you get a signed copy of the book AND one of the original sketches from the book), so grab one while you can! READ MORE
The 11th printing of The Mad Art of Caricature is in production now, and will arrive later next month. Certified cartoon genius and recently retired slacker Al Jaffee was kind enough to write and draw a second afterword for what was going to be the 2.0 version of the book, but as that has been put on indefinite hold I thought I’d just add Al’s new afterword to this and any future printings of the original book. As it turns out this may be among the last original Al Jaffee art in publication. These two new pages will be in the upcoming printing, following Sam… READ MORE
MAD #14 is starting to appear in subscriber’s mailboxes, and it’s a special “Al Jaffee” issue celebrating his retirement at the tender age of 99. The issue is full of reprints of some of Al’s work, “tribute” pieces of some of Al’s classic features like “Snappy Answers…”, “MAD Solutions to…” done by current Usual Idiots, and a new fold-in by Al that he did years ago to run as his last when he retired. I did the above spot for the last page of the issue. I also did the art on a Desmond Devlin penned tribute piece. Michael Cavna‘s “Comic Riffs” feature in the… READ MORE
I’ve had to take a break from accepting any “Virtual Comic-Con” commissions for a little while. I am terribly far behind on the ones in the queue, and freelance jobs with tight deadlines keep popping up. That’s a good problem to have, but I can’t in good conscience take any new commissions until I get caught up. For those of you who have been waiting patiently for your artwork, my apologies for the (in some cases) LOOOONG wait. I will be working hard to squeeze them in around the edges of all this other stuff I have going on. I should be caught up by… READ MORE
Well, I’m not sure it’s quite a “milestone”, but my book The Mad Art of Caricature! recently hit 400 ratings on Amazon. 86% are 5 star, and 95% are 4 stars or greater! That’s a nice thing to happen just as I am arranging the 11th printing. That’s right… ELEVEN. I am continually amazed at the staying power of this book. BTW, this new printing will feature one new element… a second forward by the great Al Jaffee!! As for version 2.0, I’m afraid that is on hold, probably for a very long time. I’ve got too many other long term projects in the pipeline… READ MORE
Earlier this month another scheduled workshop passed by having been postponed due to the pandemic, this one was supposed to happen in Long Island City, NY. We did a little Zoom meeting for those able to participate and I did the class poster art, and am mailing out all the workshop swag to everyone. We’ll reschedule that one for the fall sometime once the hotel staff gets back to work. Other postponed workshops include my caricature illustration workshop that was scheduled for March here in MN, the April Chicago workshop, and now the Vienna and Dublin workshops in June. I have rescheduled some of these… READ MORE
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