Randy Jones

Friars Club Ghosts
Posted by Randy Jones at 5:28 pm on July 8th

I just completed this Friars Club "Save The Date " invitation and poster for their next roast. It's in honour of Matt Lauer with Al Roker as Roast-master. It's a dream come true.
   I've always been a big fan of the roasts and how viscous they can be. My favourite roasters. Jeffrey Ross, Lisa Lampanelli, Artie Lang, and Gilbert Gottfried. Gilbert is the only person I met occasionally in the old National Lampoon offices, and he was so shy . But, on the podium, all hell breaks loose. I wonder if they broadcast the original Aristrocrats joke on the original Hugh Heffner Roast?
     In addition to the "Save the Date " invitation, and the poster, I'll be drawing several celebrities who will be attending the Roast in October.
    When Susann and I went for lunch to discuss the project, in the Frank Sinatra dining room , they later gave us the   the grand tour of the "Monastery" . I couldn't help to feel some of the old spirits lurking about the dark panelled walls . When I saw the Billiard table in the Jackie Gleason pool room, I first felt the   nostalgia of old New York and old Hollywood.
It's the smallest building on the block, surrounded by gigantic skyscrapers on east 55th Street.

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Hanky-Panky in Balmoral Castle:
Posted by Randy Jones at 11:39 am on May 31st

Tony Blair's wife, Cherie, has just published a lurid autobiography called " Speaking for Myself".
Quentin Letts's article "Memoirs to Forget" mentioned that Mrs Blair "conceived her youngest child after forgetting to take her " contraceptive equipment" to Queen Elizabeth's ill heated Scottish castle, Balmoral, one drafty September."
This is the spark that I needed .

This illustration was published in the Wall Street Journal's Liesure & Arts on Saturday, May 24

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A Whole New Ball Game...For Me.
Posted by Randy Jones at 2:14 am on May 15th

This is a Wall Street Journal article that was about Bill Polian, who had the Midas touch in drafting Super Bowl winners .
Most of you Drawger artist have been photoshopping your colour work for millennia. It's a new ball game for me. I still water-coloured the shadow, then photoshoped the colour. I'm much happier with the vibrant colour on newsprint.
I feel like I'm back in art school .

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The Electronic Dragon
Posted by Randy Jones at 9:33 pm on April 3rd

I published this art on the INX site and it got some favourable responses . It's about the Tibetan protest against the Chinese Olympic Games. I'm using prisma colours and photoshop. I'm really enjoying the looser lines, and it's very much faster than pen and ink. It helps on those same day deadlines.

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Inner Circle Charity Ball
Posted by Randy Jones at 10:19 am on March 15th

Inner Circle Charity Ball 2008

The Inner Circle Charity Ball was performed at thr Grand Ballroom at the New York Hilton on March 15 /2008. This year's show was called" YOUNG MIKENSTEIN"
Here is my front and back cover art and some interior illustrations
It's the 86th Annual Charity Ball performed by media and print journalists who cover the New York City political scene .
This job came out of the blue in the last year of Mayor David Dinken's term . I've really enjoyed drawing all the local and national characters on the political stage.
This is also the show where Guiliani used to wear a dress. He was playing Rudy/Rudia , from the Broadway cast of Victor /Victoria, with Julie Andrews.
This year's show was a month earlier than usual. The Spitzer affair broke on the Monday before. It didn't really effect me because, the program was already at the printers.
I met David Paterson at the Con Edison Party , but,he left before the Spitzer jokes. I liked him. Then , he had his own problems.

Here's my contribution to the Governor Spitzer story. It was published on the INX syndicate <INXart.com> on Tuesday.
I put it into the Inner Circle ball as a stage backdrop at the New York Hilton's Inner Circle show. It was in the dress rehearsal performed last night. I love my work blown up that large.
This years show is "Young Mikenstein". It's very funny and well performed by print and television journalist who cover the City Hall Beat.
The $500 a plate dinner and mayor Bloomberg rebuttal will be performed tonight . Susann and I will be selling the program art . It's a very long weekend , but, it's a lot of fun. I'll post more about the show later.

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Now What Magazine
Posted by Randy Jones at 8:26 am on February 16th

      Here is a new series that I'm really enjoying . I haven't posted in a while, but, I've got a Roger Clemen's drawing coming out in Sunday's Newsday, and a Barron's cover I'm waiting to get published. In the meantime, I've been laying low on a few exciting projects I'm dying to tell you all about.
        My good friend and fellow INXster< INXart .com> Martin Kozlowski, has created an on-line humour magazine
called " Now What" < nowwhatmedia.com> .
      He asked me to illustrate the Cinema section of the " Critic's Corner . " All I do is parody the posters of newly released movies. Last week, I illustrated Vince Vaughn's unfunny self indulgent movie" Wild West Comedy Show".

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Choking Victim Memorabilia
Posted by Randy Jones at 11:23 am on February 2nd

     A few months ago, I was re-organising my record collection when I came across my old Choking Victim 45. It 's in mint condition.
     It brought back fond memories of the band's smoke filled gigs at CBGB's. ....I think. I lost 40% of my hearing to some screeching keyboard solo from some forgotten band.
There was only two things holding me back from posting this article.
     I had to find their tongue depressors. I also had to go way back into my photo albums to try and find some young compromising pictures of the Choking Victim band .
    I couldn't find any Peter Thorp , or Bob Zimmerman pictures, but, I did find some very young pictures of Mark Matcho and Mike Bartolos . I'm using Zimm's Menudo picture from his current Bogus Products article
As for the Choking Victim Tongue Depressor.
     It finally showed up right under my nose in my pen drawer. It's been there all these years. Since I've switched to my R. Esterbrook Co.steel nibs, I hardly use my Rapidiographs any more.

I wanted to post my memorabilia on Drawger, so, I asked Zimm for permission . He said

"Do it, man."

Here's my post to refer to at Drawger:

http://www.drawger.com/zimm/?section=comments&article_id=444&

Here's the terrible sounds of me, Mark, Mike and Peter Thorpe, which I also posted at Drawger in the early days of the site:

http://www.drawger.com/zimm/cv.html

Crazy times and a LOT of fun had by a few...

Go for it.

Z

With Zimm's consent, we can all sit back and dial up the volume knob to 11, and listen to Choking Victim one more time. ENJOY

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How Time Flies.
Posted by Randy Jones at 11:04 am on February 1st

How Time Flies.

Here are two drawings about air traffic congestion published years apart. Some things never change.
The first drawing illustrates when Reagan busted the Air Traffic Controller Unions.

The recent Newsday Opinion article( January 18/2008) illustrates the congestion caused by so many smaller jets clogging up the runway for the big planes at Kennedy Airport.

I love to draw and fly them.

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Martin Luther King Day
Posted by Randy Jones at 4:58 pm on January 21st

      I've been sitting on this article since last December , to post for the Martin Luther King Holiday. It was published on November 30th /2007, in the Weekend Journal for the Wall Street Journal
       It's serious story of the current conditions of (HBCU's) Historically Black Colleges and Universities. I liked the simplicity of the concept of these three men from different generations , just standing , doing nothing but displaying their college football logos.
   I also found the time line very interesting. Martin Luther King Jr. graduated Morehouse (Atlanta) in 1948, W.E.B. DuBois graduated from Fisk in 1888, and Thurgood Marshall from Lincoln ( Chester County Pa.) in 1930.
       I received an E-Mail the Friday morning it was published, from a prominent lawyer in Alabama that wanted to purchase the original. We quickly negotiated a price for the original and had it sold by noon. He paid immediately , and I sent it off . Over the holidays, we received a Christmas card from him saying that my art is hanging in his son's room, and , that his son is attending Morehouse College where Dr. Martin Luther King went.
It's always great to find a good home for the originals.

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PEACE Show at the Sideshow .
Posted by Randy Jones at 1:10 pm on January 19th

      I'm participating in this group show at the Sideshow Gallery that's opening tonight in Williamsburg Brooklyn. I'm showing these two small sculptures and my Three Stooges Wisemen from my Christmas eve Drawger posting ,
     Frances Jetter has another print of her George Bush in the Bone chair that is currently showing in Steve Brodner's Society of Illustrator's show , and an amazing print of a Troll Doll.
     The Sideshow Gallery was founded by Richard Timperio in 1999 to create a space that would foster young Williamsburg artists, giving them exposure and a means to create a dialogue with the larger artists community. I snuck in from the East Village.

Richard Timperio, an artist himself, has been an esteemed member in the Brooklyn art scene since 1979, and has been curating since 1995. I met Richard many years ago when he was an airbrush illustrator. We even shared an agent. It's been interesting to watch his transition from an illustrator, to a painter, and gallery curator and owner.

When Leo Espinosa commented that my two sculptures looked like the Marc Caro movie, "City of Lost Children", I might agree,except. that these figures were created many years before the movie was made . I had so many influences, and still have, but one stands out. I remember reading the Gormenghast Trilogy , by Melvin Peake in 1950. He was an illustrator, painter, poet, novelist and playwright ( in that order)
I 'm posting the sculptures in their original form . Many years later, I had to bronze them just to save them from falling apart.

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