Friends of THWAK - Kit Lively

THWAK magazine was truly a venue of self expression for many of the artists that were featured. Although I'm generally a slapstick kind of guy myself, I certainly appreciate some sick and twisted material that may sometimes push the boundaries. Enter artist/writer Kit Lively who truly embodies whacked out insane humor. Take a gander at some of the above material, from MAD magazine, a greeting card, his own book and one of many National Lampoon collections that his work continues to appear in.

Kit started contributing to THWAK starting with issue #2 and has been a regular contributor to everything else I've been happy to have worked on ever since including The THWAK Bonfire of Insanity Collection 128 page trade paperback that can be ordered from you comic store . After taking over as CRACKED co-editor Kits talents once again graced CRACKED's pages after a few year hiatus. As a matter of fact I illustrated one of Kit's premise titled "The Mother of all Shut Up jokes" in issue #364, see earlier post from Sunday March 1st 2009.

To learn more about Kit and order his book visit http://www.kitlively.com/html/

CRACKED Cover Reference #2

In this cover by artist Michael D'Antuono (he also did a great spot illo of the infamous "Omarosa" from "The Apprentice" in this issue) we can again see how important good reference material is. In this case Michael labored long and hard to get the "Donald's" look, with numerous revisions before finishing all the color work digitally.

Incidentally this cover idea came from Scott Gosar (my editorial counterpart) http://www.themadstore.com/ who wanted a similar feel of the background of a dingy office like that on the Sept 1986 cover of The National Lampoon.