Illustration Guy Blog

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  • New Groovin’ Into 20 Years!

    Today marks the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Disney’s comedy feast The Emperor’s New Groove directed by Mark Dindal! This film holds a special place in my heart, for it was the first big Hollywood production on which I received screen credit! To celebrate, I created a new drawing to mark the occasion!  …

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  • Christmas with Sinatra

    Never thought I’d get to say this, but earlier this year I got to work with Frank Sinatra. Well, “with” is more like it I suppose, since he is no longer among us, which is what made the experience surprising to begin with. “With.” Whatever. The folks at the Fantoons Studio asked me to storyboard…

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  • The Barbershop

    It’s okay if your barber wants to practice for a barbershop quartet, but maybe not while giving you a shave and a haircut. (I hear those cost two bits.)    

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  • Captain My Captain

    Captain Mickey here as Steamboat Willie turns the ripe old age of 92 TODAY! That’s right, Mickey and Minnie both were born this day in cinemas in their first cartoon way back in 1928. The mouse has held up well over the years. We should all be so fortunate.

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  • Villains

    Last year my friend and fellow cartoonist Jeff Knurek reached out to me to see if I could do some character designs for a comic book project he was involved with. Jeff normally writes and draws the Jumble comic strip/puzzle that appears in newspapers and online, and he invents games (anyone ever hear of Slammo/Spikeball?), but he…

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  • The Dentist

    Some jobs really have their bad days.  

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  • Election Day

    Well, today is the day! The day we find out which side gets to be disappointed.  

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  • Happy Halloween

    It’s been a few minutes since I last did a series of Monster Month posts here on the ol’ blog. Just been too busy with actual work the past couple of years to take the time to post a monster each day in October. That being said, I didn’t want to let October 31st to…

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