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July 20th, 2011 | Posted in News
I’ll be signing free copies of MAD (I think) at the DC Comics booth (#1915) at Comic-Con on the following days and times: Thursday, July 21: 2-3pm Friday, July 22: 1-2pm Sunday, July 24: 10:30-11:30am As I don’t have any copies of MAD at my booth, this will be the place to go to get the freebee signed. Then you can take it over to Sergio‘s booth and get him to sign it, and Peter Kuper, and who knows who else! I’ll mostly be at my booth all other times, except when I’m not. READ MORE
July 18th, 2011 | Posted in News
Click for a closer look… If you are one of the lucky million people who will be attending the San Diego Comic-Con this Thurs-Sun, you can get one of these limited edition, signed/numbered, 11″x 17″ prints entitled “Secret Agent Man” in one of two ways: First, you can visit my booth (#4616) and buy one for $25. I’ll sign it for you. For that kind of money, I’ll even sign my real name. Second, you can visit my booth and pre-order a copy of my book, The Mad Art of Caricature, and get the print for free! Whadda deal. (Actually, you can either get the… READ MORE
July 15th, 2011 | Posted in News
Click for a closer look… Here’s another peek at part of my upcoming book The Mad Art of Caricature!. This is the opening two pages of the last chapter, “Caricatures and MAD“, where I go into detail about how caricature specifically applies to MAD parodies, some of the unique challenges the magazine demands and a run-through of a MAD job from script to finished art complete with notes on the thought processes and concerns at each stage. DC Entertainment gave me permission to reproduce the MAD artwork, BTW. Update on the book schedule: Good news and bad news. The good news is I am still… READ MORE
July 8th, 2011 | Posted in News
Click for a closer look… In the next few weeks I’ll be posting a few sneak peeks at some of the pages in my upcoming book¬¨‚ĆThe Mad Art of Caricature!, ordering of which will debut at Comic Con in less than two weeks! Here is the opening of chapter one. The chapter consists of 12 pages and contains over 25 illustrations. Chapter one includes my definition of caricature, what I think a good caricature needs to accomplish to be successful, what makes a bad caricature and how to avoid it, and the process of developing your “eye” for caricature. You can pre-order The Mad Art… READ MORE
July 7th, 2011 | Posted in News
My official schedule at Comic-Con is slowly coming into focus, but still has a lot of question marks. However this panel was just announced: Thursday, July 22nd: 4:30-5:30 MAD Men… What’s up with America “s most famous humor magazine (that is, if you don’t count Newsweek)? Your genial moderator Mark Evanier quizzes the Usual Gang of Idiots: editor John Ficarra, art director Sam Viviano, writer Dick DeBartolo and artists Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond, and Keith Knight. Room 8 That one will be fun, especially moderated by the insanely busy Mark Evanier, who moderates just under 1,000 panels every Comic-Con. Per day. Otherwise I… READ MORE
June 24th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Many sources are reporting that director Ron Howard (Splash!, Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code, etc.) has been signed to direct a live action film based on the long-running MAD Magazine feature Spy Vs. Spy. “Live action” of course means with actors and not using animation. An interesting approach. How much of Spy vs. Spy’s appeal is because of the art style and character design of the late Antonio Prohias? I guess we’ll be finding out. READ MORE
June 23rd, 2011 | Posted in News
The new version of the app for which I originally did 540 caricature of every senator and representative in the United States Congress, Bobble Rep: the 112th Congress Edition, is finally out in the App Store. The new edition features links to social media like Facebook and Twitter pages for each congressional member as well as the previous website, physical address and telephone contact info. I did 140 or so new caricatures of the most recent editions to congress for the app…of course with the way our politicians act, I’ll be doing frequent replacements. For example, the developers made the unfortunate choice of using this… READ MORE
June 21st, 2011 | Posted in News
The book proceeds apace, but it’s slow going as I keep having to put it aside to work on jobs. In fact, plans to have the printed copies ready to go at the San Diego Comic Con are now nixed, which sucks. No helping it, though. It makes no sense for me to turn down paying jobs in order to finish it, because the book will get done eventually and I won’t sell any fewer copies if it ships in August rather than July. Bills continue to be due. My theme park crews are getting mad at me as they haven’t seen me in weeks.… READ MORE
