posted: August 30, 2010

Today is Robert Crumb's 67th birthday. Crumb has been my favorite artist for as long as I can remember and I thought I'd share just a tiny sampling of his work.
Happy Birthday Robert!

I did the cover image of Crumb for this book published a few years ago containing interviews with fellow artists on Crumb's influence..

posted: August 23, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/arts/design/22caricature.html
Yesterday's NY TImes article about the heir's to the great Al Hirschfeld, including Drawger's very own Victor Juhasz! Congrats Vic!

posted: August 16, 2010

"This is what's left of Mickey Rooney"
-Mickey Rooney
Created for VANITY FAIR's daily online edition
I recently, along with some like minded friends, went to see the 89 year old (he turns 90 next month)  show biz legend Mickey Rooney, along with his 8th ("and final") wife Jan, perform their show of songs, song duets and comedy patter (loss of hair, height and wives jokes) at the Mount Airy Hotel & Casino, formally the "Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge, in the Poconos. How could I resist? My wife somehow could, but I couldn't), Mickey Rooney is one of the last, great, still active Hollywood legends, dating back to the silent era when he first starred in an Our Gang inspired series as "Mickey McGuire". He's best known for co-starring with Judy Garland in a series of MGM musicals ("Let's put on a show!", also the name of Mickey & Jan's live show), but also portrayed Andy Hardy in a hugely popular series of folksy MGM comedies, as well as many film classics, including "A Mid Summer's Night's Dream", Boy's Town, "Young Tom Edison", "The Human Comedy", and National Velvet". Later, a bit more world (and multiple-marriage ) weary, he co-starred in "Requiem for a Heavyweight", "It's a mad mad mad mad world", as  a now very Un-PC Japanese landlord in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", and later co-starred with Dick Van Dyke in one of my favorite (yet flawed) films "The Comic". He's still active (Night at the Museums) and shows no sign of slowing down.
("First they want Mickey Rooney. Then they want a Mickey Rooney type.  Then they ask "Who's Mickey Rooney?"- Mickey Rooney).
I didn't get to meet Mickey after the show, he bolted after signing a few programs for some of the senior citizen gamblers in attendance, but I did manage to give Jan Rooney a copy of my book of portraits of "Old Jewish Comedians". She later emailed to say that "Mickey loved the book".
 
At one point during the show, one of my friends whispered that the much larger Jan looked like the ventriloquist to Mickey's dummy, which inspired this drawing.

posted: July 23, 2010

Cover art for this week's NY Observer, Shoe-In NY Governor candidate  Andrew Cuomo as a Chippendales Dancer, displaying his hot bod for Cash. Nancy Butkus, A.D.
http://www.observer.com/

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