January 11, 2011
6.9 Billion
A few weeks ago 26 year-old Mark Zuckerberg—the founder of Facebook, for those of you who’ve been living in a cave—was recently ranked on the Forbes 400 at #35 with 6.9 billion dollars. This is an exceptionally large amount of money. So large, in fact, it can be hard to comprehend, much like the known universe or Christina Hendrick’s bosom. Thus I thought it’d be informative to try and put Zuckerberg’s billions into a little real-world perspective:
January 10, 2011
The Art of Jack Davis
“I work pretty loosely and if it’s something I really enjoy drawing, it goes pretty fast. When it gets down to doing really tight work and the client is pretty picky, you can have it, because I don’t want it.” - Jack Davis
Jack Davis creates 8 rough sketches before one meets the approval from the agency art director who handled this ad campaign for Bell South Mobility. Taken from the 1996 out-of-print book The Complete Book of Humorous Art.
Davis and Mort Drucker were always my favorite MAD Magazine artists by far.
Bio:
Jack Davis is a prolific American cartoonist and illustrator, known for his advertising art, magazine covers, film posters, record album art and numerous comic book stories. He was one of the founding cartoonists for Mad in 1952.
Born in 1924, Davis saw comic book publication at the age of 12 when he contributed a cartoon to the reader's page of Tip Top Comics #9 (December, 1936). He drew for his high school paper and then spent three years in the U.S. Navy, where he contributed to the daily Navy News. Attending the University of Georgia on the G.I. Bill, he did drawings for the campus newspaper and helped launch an off-campus humor publication, Bullsheet, which he described as "not political or anything but just something with risque jokes and cartoons." After graduation, he was a cartoonist intern at The Atlanta Journal, and he worked one summer inking Ed Dodd's Mark Trail comic strip, a strip which he later parodied in Mad as Mark Trade.
His style of wild, free-flowing brushwork and wacky characters made him a perfect choice when Harvey Kurtzman launched Mad as a zany, satirical EC comic book in 1952. Davis contributed to other Kurtzman magazines - Trump, Humbug and Help! - eventually expanding into illustrations for record jackets, movie posters, books and magazines, including Time and TV Guide. In 1961, he wrote, drew, and edited his own comic book, Yak Yak, for Dell Comics.
Davis was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003. He also received the National Cartoonists Society Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. A finalist for inclusion in the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990, 1991 and 1992, he received the National Cartoonists Society's Advertising Award for 1980 and their Reuben Award for 2000.
In June 2002, Davis had a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Society of Illustrators in New York. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2005.
In June 2002, Davis had a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Society of Illustrators in New York. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2005.
Art of the Title - Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Director Edgar Wright, concept designer and head storyboard artist Oscar Wright, and main title designer Richard Kenworthy from Shynola discuss the creation of the opening title along with a few other sequences in this awesome article.
Hobo with a Shotgun
Just a bit of news from one of the coolest films to be conceived, produced, and filmed in Nova Scotia.
The movie will be making its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Director Jason Eisener is on the last few days of finishing the fine cut of the film, and personally I can't wait to see it. Check out the blog for some footage, photos and updates. Make sure to see the trailer, it's got over a half million views already!
Voice Actor - Chris Latta
Upon his sudden death due to a cerebral hemorrhage on 12 June 1994 (at the age of 45), long time friend Flint Dille recalled: "There was one summer when I had to bail Chris Latta out of the Hollywood jail in order to get him to a voice recording on time. Never figured out what he was in for, but he said it was jaywalking. Chris was a wild, interesting, and very funny guy. I liked him and was very sorry to hear he had passed away.
Credit List:
| G.I. Joe (1983, Animated Series) | Breaker | |
| Cobra Commander | ||
| G.I. Joe (1989-90, Animated Series) | Cobra Commander | |
| G.I. Joe (1983, Animated Series) | Frostbite | |
| Gung Ho | ||
| Hooded Cobra | ||
| Ripper | ||
| Steeler | ||
| G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987, Animated Film) | Cobra Commander | |
| E7 Ettiebbe R. LaFitte | ||
| Gung Ho | ||
| Harry Nod of Dreadnok | ||
| Ripper | ||
| Televiper #1 | ||
| InHumanoids (1986, Animated Series) | D'Compose | |
| Grana-Q | ||
| Tendril | ||
| InHumanoids: The Movie (1986, Animated Film) | D'Compose | |
| Grana-Q | ||
| Tendril | ||
| Rover Dangerfield (1991, Animated Film) | Big Boss | |
| Coyote | ||
| Horse | ||
| Sparky | ||
| Wolf | ||
| Simpsons, The (1989, Animated Series) | "America's Most Armed and Dangerous" Host | |
| Charles Montgomery Burns | ||
| Moe Szyslak | ||
| Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1983, Animated Series) | Beetle / Abner Jenkins | |
| Sandman / Flint Marko | ||
| Star Blazers (1979, Anime Series) | Comet Empire Gen. Dire | |
| Sgt. Major Knox | ||
| Superman (1988, Animated Series) | (additional voices) | |
| Transformers, The (1984, Animated Series) | Defensor | |
| Krunk | ||
| Old Snake | ||
| Reflector | ||
| Skullcruncher | ||
| Snake | ||
| Sparkplug | ||
| Starscream | ||
| Wheeljack | ||
| Witwicky | ||
| Transformers: The Movie, The (1986, Animated Film) | Starscream | |
| Wheeljack | ||
| Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light (1987, Animated Series) | Cravex | |
| Darkstorm | ||
| Falkama |
January 09, 2011
The Art of Cory Loftis
I showcased the works of this awesome illustrator/character artist three years ago, I'm a big fan of his design style. He has since posted lots more amazing new art including some comic book work on his site.
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