I Let My Fists Do The Talkin’

I had the date wrong on the earlier post (or it changed since I wrote that). It’s out now.

Ninety-six pages of full-color illustrated laughs and semi-true information written and drawn by me (and some other people: Dan Telfer, Sarah Wilkes, Silvija Ozols, Will Hines + more, but mostly me). This, inexplicably, is the first “official” Mad Men publication ever. It’s also the first Mad Men book that doesn’t have a red/black/white cover.

This is not a collection of web illustrations (I wish it was, that would have been so easy for me!)... it’s mostly new material. With words. I can make up a percentage right now. 85% new, I’ll say. It contains NO SPOILERS for Season 4, if you’re waiting for the DVD.

Amazon:
www.amazon.com/Mad-Men-Illustrated-Dyna-Moe/dp/0399536574…
1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282851340&sr=8-1

Barnes & Noble:
search.barnesandnoble.com/Mad-Men/Dyna-Moe/e/978039953657…
&USRI=mad+men+the+illustrated+world

Borders: www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=0399536574

Indiebound: www.indiebound.org/ (you’ll have to search for it)

Powells: www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780399536571-0

Penguin: us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780399536571,...?
Mad_Men:_The_Illustrated_World_Dyna_Moe

It’s coming out in Australia and the UK under the “Orion” imprint. Don’t have dates for that yet.

I was in LA the last 10 days, so this is “old news.” If you didn’t see the 12 billion other blogs that wrote about it…

Ninety-six pages of full-color illustrated laffs and semi-true information written and drawn by me (and some other people, but mostly me).

This, inexplicably, is the first "official" Mad Men publication ever. It’s also the first Mad Men book that doesn’t have a red/black/white cover.

To be released on October 6, 2010.

You can pre-order now at Amazon...but in the unlikely even your town’s independent bookstore is carrying it, support your local and get it there. (I doubt they will, but Urban Outfitters will have it.)

*This is also coming out in Australia, UK, and Canada under different imprints. There may be some variation in the release date for those countries.

Featuring new outfits, new backgrounds, and more—
www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/madmenyourself/

I didn’t have time/motivation to make a Christmas card this year. Luckily, it being the end of the Zeros, I instead give a brief retrospective of cards of the years past. (The ones I already have on the internet, anyway.)

2003. I lost this scarf immediately after making this card.

2006. This is actually Cakey’s Christmas card, but I made it.

2006. Inside: “Hoping your holiday season is relatively free of traumatizing calamity.”

Not actually a Christmas card, but an album you should buy

2007. The Christmas card that changed the course of my career and indirectly dictated what I would be doing for the next 2+ years. (Made for actor Rich Sommer.)

2008. This one was for sale in my brief career as a copyright-violating media profiteer.

2008. We delivered on the promise, too.

2008.

Merry Fishmas, everybody!

The last one of Season 3:

I have a couple of loose Mad Men projects still to post and then I’m giving the series a rest for a good long time.

Added :

This was one of those loose ends left half done. So I finished it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nobodyssweetheart/4069914937/

Only two more to go.

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I watched all these episodes back to back, so I drew them back to back. Click to see larger/download/read description

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Mad Men Illustrated (set)
Mad Men Illustrated on Tumblr
Mad Men Illustrated on Facebook

My awkward comment starts around :50. The interviewer was yelling at me a lot; I got a little scattered.

The “FRUiTS Magazine” street shot.

This is all my own hair—no padding inside. Just backcombed into a big lumpy hair-tumor. And filled with spider eggs.

With Bryan Batt in the late-evening red haze of Times Square

With Bryan Batt, suddenly rage-filled and hand-gesturing

(These pictures were taken by my evening’s escort, the lovely Ramsey Ess.)

I’m mainly putting this here for my parents

Read an interview with me where all my libelous statements, pointless tangents and attempts to be humorous have been edited for space. Making me seem quite dull, but less hate-filled than usual.

My interviewer talked to be on the phone last week and, god bless her, had to transcribe the whole thing and then get it down to 140 words. Unfortunately, I am not a succinct, focused speaker (nor have I what would be called a “pleasing” or “articulate” way of speaking) so a lot of things didn’t make the cut.

Things cut from the interview:

Read the interview

Last February I got a big box of Mad Men stuff totally unexpectedly.

I went to the AMC offices last week and when offered more stuff I said, haughty, “I think I’ve got all of it already.” But then I was dazzled by this—

and this—

—and two more Mad Men floaty pens. I have to figure out how to leverage them into something more grandiose and amazing. Or drugs. ...So now I have even more stuff. But I’ll give you some stuff. Video stuff—
UCB student Aaron Galbraith send me this “recap” video he made, which is excellent.
It pretty much tells you everything you want to know—

I actually did this a while ago, but I ran it by people to make sure it wouldn’t be considered "creepy" or "pedo" to draw Matt Weiner’s son. But now he’s a media darling and public person, so all’s fair.

If you haven’t been following the Arlo publicity blitz, here’s for starters:

• Arlo in GQ
• His Style Profile in LA Times
• His Q&A in the LA Times Blog

So, a lot of my local NY friends already know this, but I’ve been in negotiation with AMC to do illustrations “officially” for Mad Men on their site the same way I did last season on my own. Instead of being on Flickr, the wallpapers for iPhone and desktop would go up on AMC.com the day after a new episode airs.

The downside is that as a massive corporation, there’s a lot of “approvals” and “clearances” the need to get before something goes on their site so I have to do the drawing well in advance, the actors have to sign off on the use of their likenesses, the legal department has to sign off on it, etc. A huge change from when I would watch the episode at the normal time, draw for three hours and then put it up.

I have a big stack of scripts (not final drafts) for the first couple episodes of Mad Men Season 3 on my desk and I’ve been submitting sketches to AMC. I got a preliminary OK to put one of my roughs online, so I give everyone the first peak of a scene from Season 3, Episode 2

When people give me DVD screeners, I make with the Photoshop. No, it doesn’t make any sense.

The original untouched ad (for Dolly Madison, 1960)

I did it with last year’s, too.

Super big thanks to Mike Cagnazzi at AMC/Rainbow for the DVDs.

Kitty Romano made you some nice spaghetti. But it’s Ash Wednesday so you shouldn’t be eating it anyway because you should be fasting.

(Thanks to Vintage Style File for posting pictures of the full dress from “The Gold Violin” that they happened to have an exact copy off.)