Now accepting commissions for the Holidays!!

 

I am now accepting commissions for the Holidays.

 

Along with my regular style as seen in my books and prints, I am also willing to do requests in both Pop Art and a more cartoon style. Pop Art can vary from comic book art to a painting of your favorite comic strip.

 

As for medium. I work in pen and ink. But I can also do pieces in watercolor, gouche and in digital colors.

 

I don't usually do pieces in Acrylic or Tempera. However, I would be opened to any requests in either. Since they would be created on canvas, they would most likely a lot more factoring in supplies and shipping as well as the size of the piece.

 

I don't work in oils. I'm just not good at it and the smells of the oils and varinishes make me sick. Sorry.

 

Anyone who is looking for a piece digitally colored can rest assured that the original color file will be deleted once I have printed it making it a one-of-a-kind piece. You will also have the original mailed to you at no additional cost.

Any interested parties can e-mail me at herbertzohl@gmail.com for more information about pricing, size and what you have in mind for a particular illustration.

Cracked: After Hours

A couple months ago Dan O'Brien from Cracked.com contacted me about doing artwork for a brand new web series they were developing called Cracked: After Hours. The premise of the show was four employee's of Cracked.com getting together after work and riffing on pop culture. The artists chosen for the series would represent the inner thoughts of each of the characters on the show.

My artwork represents actress Katie Willert's (pictured) inner thoughts because my style and liking towards things from the 1920's and 1930's best suited her own tastes.

For those unfamiliar, Cracked Magazine was the MAD Magazine's closets rival since the late 1950's. There were countless humor mags around the same idea as MAD but Cracked was the only one of those rivals that hung around the longest and was the closest competition for MAD.

One of my favorite MAD Magazine cartoonists Don Martin even crossed enemy lines and worked for Cracked for a short while after a falling out with MAD when they refused to pay him royalties on reprints his work appeared in.

There's a link to the first episode of Cracked: After Hours in my previous blog post which is all about how the first Back to the Future is by far the worst ending in movie history. The characters reasons why are great!!

I also finished up artwork for the next couple episodes. Be sure to keep up with the series!! It's been a lot of fun to work on so far and the cast involved are a great group of actors!!