Local man who was cartoonist for the Alley Oop comic strip dies in car accident in 2001: Where It Happened “Little River Road, the narrow and curvaceous connector between the Greenville Highway and Kanuga Road/Crab Creek Road, was widened somewhat and repaved only after tragedy struck near one of its […]
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Another cover story I was asked to illustrate for the local Alt-Weekly Asheville paper, The Mountain Xpress, was this one about an upcoming vote on local bonds that would be used to fund greenways and preserve open space, as well as for affordable housing. I was given some ideas they […]
MAD magazine, and Rankin Bass legendary artist Paul Coker passed away recently. MAD writer, Desmond Devlin spoke about him in an online update, better than I could, so I will repost his words here: by Desmond Devlin “PAUL COKER, JR, 1929-2022 When I started at MAD, the first four artists […]
The local alt-weekly paper, The Mountain Xpress, in Asheville has once again seen fit to commission my art for one of their cover stories. This one seeks to illustrate the concepts in the article regarding the efforts of those both outside the area and inside, mostly non-profits, trying to provide […]
For me, drawing caricatures at a birthday party is not a new thing, but this particular gig I was hired to do proved to be a new experience. I was tasked with drawing all the party guests (or at least as many as could fit) in the same caricature with […]
Once again, I intend to participate in the monthlong, January daily drawing challenge called Caricature Resolution. This year’s theme appears to be that the actor subjects for caricature are all related by one degree to the following day’s actor subject via them both starring in the same movie or TV […]
My friend Jason is a big fan of Dana Gould’s lockdown YouTube series, “Hanging With Dr. Z” the concept of which is that the Dr. Zaius character from the original Planet of the Apes movie had a Mike Douglas type of talk show that existed in a retro period when […]
Back in 2006, I was dabbling in nascent digital art technology. I decided to do a humorous drawing of the three different comic book characters that had the same name, “Sandman” and have them fighting Three Stooges style. This week, in an effort to make mayself draw more while in-between […]
Our local alt-weekly paper, The Mountain Xpress here in Asheville, NC, has once again made good on their mantra to “go local” by hiring local artists (in this case, me) to once again illustrate this week’s cover story called “Money Moves” and here is my art both before and after […]
Another January, another month-long daily caricature challenge! Although, unlike previous years, I was already doing a daily “Coronacature” challenge (well, I participated daily at first, then dropped off as time went on…) and an April “Fool’s” daily challenge for the 2020 month of April when the pandemic was first forcing […]