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I love the book! I think it perfectly captures the disturbingly delicious horror of Mars Attacks. My contributions: I wrote the afterword for the book and I'm currently working on a book trailer for it. Also, several of the Mars Attacks paintings I did for the 1994 series are included in the book (one of my favorites is the one of JFK being held hostage by a Martian).
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I certainly do remember my father painting Mars Attacks and they didn’t bother me a bit. In fact, I contributed to the series myself. When Dad would take a break from his drawing board, I would sneak up and paint extra long and glamorous eyelashes on his damsels in distress. Years later I asked my father if he knew I was “perfecting” his paintings, back then when I was 9. He said of course he did, he would just go in and paint out my crazy eyelashes. But I swear I still spy some of my handiwork in the cards.
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Growing up I wanted to be just like my dad. He was the picture of nonconformist, devil-may-care self-assurance. And what kid doesn't want to be a nonconformist? But on top of that, he loved painting pictures and so do I. I count myself very lucky to be able to make a living at it, especially since most of my work is pretty outrageous political commentary that would get me thrown in jail if I lived in another country.
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I have step children, but I keep my sketchy past under wraps.
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I love the Batman series, too! They have a fantastic 60s vibe to them, very Hulabaloo and Shindig—if you're not acquainted with them, those are old TV shows that featured rock 'n roll acts in the 60s. I remember him hunched over his drawing board with his green eyeshade on, peering through his clunky magnifying glass as he concocted scenes of mayhem and massacre.
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Hmmmm…well, I thought the movie was pretty amusing, but I never thought of Mars Attacks as funny or goofy. And while I agree with you about the impishness of Burton's Martians, they were missing the deadly serious malevolence of the originals. The Mars Attacks cards were so wonderfully grisly and chock full of massacre and mutilation -- and Martian mayhem like that is no laughing matter! So I say "thumbs down!" on the movie. As for what Dad would have thought…seeing as how Dad and I saw eye-to-eye on all things gruesome and grand, I'd say he would agree with me 100%! What are you personally working on these days?
Every week I create animated political cartoons that run on various news websites (they can all be seen on my Youtube channel: and I'm also continuing my series of presidential campaign cartoons that appear in publications and on my website. In Mars Attacks news, I created a Mars Attacks poster, limited to 250 signed and numbered prints, that will be available Aug. 15th exclusively on shoptopps.com And, just between us, I'm hard at work doing the animated book trailer for the amazing Mars Attacks book!
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