[mburbank]

It is mine own technique, although I'm certain other people have done the same thing. I pick a photo I like as a model and put it into photo shop. I then add a layer over it, and draw/trace their features somewhat more cartoony fashion using the photo as a guide. I then delete the phto, color the image to suit and finish by flattenting everything and using a noise filter, which I find pulls it all together.

Once I have a cartoonified image, I can re-use it in any panels I want and add slight modifications, which saves time and also gives it the very static quality I like.

In the Tom Cruise piece, I was able to find a whole slew of screen captures from a Larry King interview and that was great. I'm not suually that lucky.

I invented this technique while working for Hustler magazine doing a strip called "Angry Girl Darcy", which I can now reveal since they fired my ass. I think it may have been because darcy never got naked or put anything up herself, and if she had got naed, she would have had pubic hair. I think they sensed that.