Today at 10:00am Pacific time is the start of the "Help The Hodges" art auction (ebay link). It's not only a chance to bid on some *fantastic* cartoon and animation art but you'll also be helping a good cause. The drummer pictured above is Matt Hodge, teenage son of animation writer/producer Tim Hodge (Mulan, VeggieTales). Back in August Matt was in...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCDxaiYZXaU&sns=em] Artist Stephen Silver has put together an amazing new video that cartoonists are going to love. "The Masters Series, Vol. 1" includes lengthy interviews with three living legends: Mort Drucker (MAD Magazine), Stan Goldberg (Archie Comics), and John Reiner (The Lockhorns). Over the course of 2 hours and 15 minutes we get to see each artist hard at work in...
My wife and I spent Memorial Day weekend in Hollywood where we visited a couple of clients, did some vacationing, and attended the 2009 National Catoonists Society Reuben Awards Weekend. I love Los Angeles and this was one of the most enjoyable trips I've taken in quite a while. I've got a bunch of photos posted over on my Facebook...
Issue #3 of cartooning magazine Stay Tooned! has just been published. I received my copy over the weekend and it's full of great stuff, including a 7-page interview with Yours Truly. Here's a full list of the artists and contributors from the mag's website: "[Stay Tooned! issue #3] features profiles of Chad "Tundra" Carpenter, magazine gag cartoonist Benita Epstein, freelance Nebraska...
I recently ordered a copy of Kyle Baker's new book How To Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooning (Amazon.com link). For those of you who aren't familiar with Baker's work, he's a prolific cartoonist with a background in comic books and animation. His work has appeared in numerous publications including BusinessWeek, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, MAD Magazine,...
A few short weeks ago issue #2 of Stay Tooned! magazine was released. It's a terrific magazine chock full of articles and interviews by cartoonists for cartoonists. It covers all sorts of cartooning from comics to animation to panel cartoons to character design to editorial cartoons to...
