I (very) recently worked on a two-page spread illustration for the Cleveland Free Times issue that comes out this week (Wed. Aug. 15, 2007). The piece was a satire on the controversial Cleveland Clinic “Medical Mart” being proposed in Cleveland, Ohio.
Writer James Renner found my work via my website and wanted me to illustrate his Star Wars themed parody of the shenanigans. The piece was done in a cartoon style (obviously) reminiscent of MAD Magazine, as I was flexing some serious Mort Drucker, Sam Viviano & Jack Davis idolisation while creating the piece.
Staff writer Renner, along with Editor Frank Lewis were extremely pleased with the final piece, which was created on a super-tight deadline (even after being given a requested week’s bump by Art Director Ron Kretsch due to many existing and pressing projects on my end).
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“Tyrannosaurus Wrecks” cartoon dinosaur t-shirt now available over at my Zazzle store.
I hope I don;t have to explain this one, but for those cavemen out there, the caption “Tyrannosaurus Wrecks” is a pun playing on the name “Tyrannosaurus Rex”. Get it?
Head on over to Zazzle and grab one now, and take a look at the other shirts I have for sale. More coming soon as well!
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Hot-rod scooter cartoon mascot character.
Steve over at The Scooter Scoop commissioned me a few months back to create an original Odd Rods inspired cartoon illustration for his blog. He’s posted a kudo-laden entry about the Odd Rods style scooter monster hot rod cartoon art I did for him, and I appreciate it very much. Just wanted to return the favor and give Steve and The Scooter Scoop a little press.The “Mod Rod” cartoon art is available at Café Press as well.
Thanks Steve!
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For the past few months I have been working on a pretty cool project, redesigning the official website for the relaunch of the classic Odd Rods® trading card series of crazy, funny cartoon hot rod monsters & creatures – big eyes bugging out, goofy smiles with teeth bared & tongues wagging. The proud new owners of the Odd Rods® trademarks and copyrights got in touch with the original cartoonist/illustrator/artist extraordinaire Bob “B.K.” Taylor to bring these awesome cartoon characters back into the popular culture where they belong.
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Hot on the heels of the Cartoon Nerd & Geek t-shirts comes the Pickled Pig cartoon character t-shirt!
Why The Pickled Pig you ask? Well, eons ago I created a t-shirt for a mail-order company based off the phrase “The Pickled Pig”, and it was intended to be a faux “pub shirt”. Not only have I received many emails regarding that illustration since posting on my website, but I was also informed that the company was no longer producing them, and no intentions of doing so in the future.
Well, that just isn’t right, and I set about to fix things. Not wanting to cause any headaches with the original company, and knowing I could create an even better version of the Pickled Pig, I set about months ago to sketching up a new one. And the sketch sat on my computer, anxiously awaiting the touch of the Wacom tablet to it’s roughly sketched being. Until today.
Immediately available for purchase as a t-shirt from Zazzle.com, I present to you the new and improved Pickled Pig cartoon t-shirt!
And awesomly enough, before I have even had a chance to finish thi spost I see on the product page I have been awarded best design of today! Not really sure how that award thing works, but it’s cool!
Update: I lost my Zazzle award after deleting the original shirt due to uploading a version without my copyright & website tagline on the shirt. After my Nerf fiasco in my younger days, I have come to realize the importance of protecting your work.
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Available from my online cartoon art store at Zazzle.com now, get your very own Nerd or Geek t-shirt and flaunt your inner (or outer) geek/nerd with this popular cartoon geek illustration. Pocket protector not included.
Shirts are available in black and white, with your choice of the word “nerd” or “geek” in a huge, typewriter-style typeface on the back. Visit the Coghill Cartooning store at Zazzle for all the variations.
Zazzle lets you customize the crap out of the design, so go wild and customize your shirt for your specific nerdishness. You can also pick different shirt colors for the white version of the shirt, but white areas in the art print the color of the shirt so it might look a little weird. But hey, you might look a little weird, so it might all cancel each other out. Black t-shirts come only in black, and no weirdness with the white in the art, just weirdness with the wearer of the shirt.
Stay tuned – more cool cartoon art apparel from my voluminous portfolio of illustration art to be available very soon.
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Another red pen cartoon sketch. This time it’s a whiskey drinkin’, bone clankin’ skeleton!
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Here’s a cool sketch of a cartoon Angry Dog. Read on to see the full drawing…
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A recent sketch of a hot rod goon/monster. This started out as just a character doodle that got converted into a hot rod goon.
I really wanted to play with the angle and personality of the hands, as well as use this as practice with shading. Never hurts to keep your chops up. You can even see me reworking the angle & size of the car. This is by no means a final illustration, just some practice cartooning. I especially like howw some of the curves and lines in the face came out, the have a real nice flowing, cartoony style.
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I guess these concepts/designs violated some sort of copyright thing.
The first, one of my corny pun t-shirt ideas, Fat Albert Einstein.
The design, with of course, “Hey Hey Hey! E=mc2“:
Next up, my Nike parody. Aren’t parodies covered under copyright law? I’m sure CafePress “reserves the right” blah blah blah…
For us lazy cynics out there, a proper alternative to the “Just Do It” slogan – “The Hell With It.”
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