Frank

There are only two legends who own the name Frank. Frank Frazetta is the one I will always think of first despite a fondness for Sinatra music.

new project for PBS

Painting Backgrounds directly for these guys-- http://rauchbrothers.com

We all work for StoryCorps: http://storycorps.org/animation/



Layouts are drawn by old Ren and Stimpy comrade Jim Smith. The main character is missing for the backgrounds, but you can guess how he is framed I bet.

last MB cu

second to the last

the first of the last Mighty B gross close-ups

from a board sketch by me redrawn by the amazing Miles Thomson and painted by me. I'll quietly burn them off like they are doing with our new shows.

Monroe The first episode

Back in the late Nineties I was hired to do a new real time strip in Mad magazine with TV writer Tony Barbieri called Monroe. I'm posting the first pencils and the final art. So many changes were made, I re- drew it entirely. I really didn't want to do Mom as clean cut as the editors wanted, so over the years I slowly evolved her back to this version. They never noticed. Monroe got fixed up for the better and evolved more later. I loved that he got real time older until they stopped the aging in his teens. Tony and I were looking forward to him as a young man. The strip was the love of my cartoon life for a long time, we were breaking ground every episode. Then Jenette Kahn The publisher who green light the strip and wanted Mad to have a harder edge left DC and the Paul Levitz conservative years toned the strip down and turned it into a job.
Have fun comparing the pages

Old Mad Sample page

Here is a sample page I did for Joe Orlando back when he thought he had some pull with Mad--- He was really disappointed with the result, but when he retired, they hired me anyway. Joe could be a fun funny guy when joking around in his office, but he a sadistic fussy controlling side I thought came from his own lack of security as an artist of distinctly C level. Looking back it's not the greatest page,maybe it was me...