Sketch O’The Week
November 1st, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
The caricatures are hers and hers and his this week as we return to having a BRAND NEW “Sketch o’the Week” every Wednesday! We are also continuing our classic sitcom cast series which, if you recall, was on to the 1970’s. With the passing of Suzanne Somers last week I had to draw the original cast of “Three’s Company”, a sitcom which started in the late 70’s and went into the early 80s. Pictured are Somers, John Ritter, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley and Joyce DeWitt. Ms. Somers ended up getting written off the show in the 5th season because she demanded equal pay with male star Ritter, but thanks to… READ MORE
October 25th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
In honor of the upcoming holiday, here’s a bunch of spooky Halloween themed sketches from past “Sketch o’the Week” posts. We resume our regular SotW and the classic sitcom cast series next Wednesday! READ MORE
September 6th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
For the “Sketch of the Week” this week I’m sharing some caricatures I did for the upcoming documentary film “When We Went MAD”. A lot of people were interviewed for the documentary, or footage of them was being used, and a number of MAD artists were asked to do caricatures of the interviewees. There are the five people I was assigned (everyone did one of Bill Gaines). READ MORE
August 30th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This sketch of Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway and Joe Flynn from “McHale’s Navy” got a new life a couple of weeks ago when the author of an upcoming book about the history of that show emailed me and asked about using the art on the book’s cover. I did not think a pencil sketch was appropriate for a book cover, so we settled on a price for use of the image and for me to add gray washes to the drawing so it had more of a finished look. This will be on the cover of a “McHale’s Navy” book coming out sometime later this year. READ MORE
August 16th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
For once no big names from the pop culture/entertainment world bit the dust this week, and we can get back to our TV sitcom series! We are currently doing 1970’s era shows, and this week’s sketch features Freddie Prinze and Jack Albertson from “Chico and the Man”. This show was groundbreaking in that is was the first U.S. TV series set in a latino neighborhood. With the success of “Sanford and Son”, NBC wanted to create another show centered in a minority community, this time a Mexican-American area of Los Angeles. Supposedly the show’s concept was heavily based on some of the skits from the comedy team Cheech and Chong.… READ MORE
August 9th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated! “Laverne and Shirley” was a huge hit as a spin off from the show “Happy Days”. Here’s my sketch of stars Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams. The show was a favorite in the Richmond household and my parents and siblings and I used to watch it on Tuesday nights right after “Happy Days”. How ingrained into our pop culture psyche was this show? The hard drives on my wife’s computer are named “Laverne” and “Shirley”, and her backup drive is “The Big Ragoo”. Our daughter’s hard drives are named “Lenny” and “Squiggy”. I haven’t seen an episode in probably thirty years, but it made… READ MORE
July 26th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We have to take a break from our sitcom sketch series in honor of the late Tony Bennett, who passed away last Friday at the age of 96. How can you not love Tony Bennett? He was an American Institution. A true legend of the entertainment world, he had multiple top ten albums spanning almost 60 years (“I left my Heart in San Francisco” in 1962 and “Love for sale” in 2021). Twenty Grammys. Lady Gaga loved him. What a legacy he left. RIP Mr. Bennett. READ MORE
July 12th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
It’s the big one!!! I’m comin’, Elizabeth!! It’s back to the 1970’s with our sitcom series, this week featuring one of my all time favorites, Demond Wilson and Redd Foxx of “Sanford and Son”. I was surprised a few years ago to learn that “Sanford and Son” was not an original show, but an American remake of a British show called “Steptoe and Son” from the early 1960s. The BBC show was about a grumpy old man and his son who ran a struggling old junkyard/salvage business. “Sanford and Son” came about because of the success of another American sitcom that was adapted from a British show. “All in… READ MORE
