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My pal Jules over at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast has a fab new post featuring the Famous Nini!

Festival in Venice

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There's a scene in The Famous Nini when the king declares National Nini Day and everyone celebrates. Kerry Martin, the senior design editor, wasn't happy with the scene as I'd depicted it in the thumbnail sketch with crowds on a bridge over…

Howcome?

I see that Despicable Me has a tie-in with IHOP—some kind of merchandise giveaway thing.  Toy Story 3 has all kinds of merchandise and tie-ins at Walmart: from T shirts to action figures to characters' images on boxes of crackers. All that's…

What if friends want free work?

A former student of mine wrote: I am having an issue with people thinking just because they know me I should paint portraits of their kids and do graphic design work for them for nothing—or next to it. I have gotten five demands this week…

More of that Wizards’ reunion art

Some shots of the image I've been working on for the Wizards' reunion.  The Wizards were a bunch of us callow art students who formed a club for the express purpose of throwing parties.  This image will get put on a T shirt for the big weekend. …

Sam

Model sheet for a character from a canceled project.

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Doorman & Dream Mom

Characters from a canceled storybook project.  The doorman was sort of Mephistopheles and Dream Mom Helen of Troy. Dream Mom is supposed to be the ideal of a six-year-old boy.  I tried to blend aspects of the dream girls from my earliest…

Rollie Ivers, 1919-2010

Rollie Ivers, my high school art teacher, passed on this week. I haven't seen him for many years, but we exchanged news at Christmastime somewhat regularly. Mr Ivers taught me to consider a painting as a design.  He always had us students…

Return of the Wizards

Way back when I was a student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, a bunch of us got together and founded a society devoted to nothing more than throwing parties.  This was back before cable tv, gameboys, x-boxes, iPods—so we had to amuse…