Tom Richmond Freelance Illustrator Tom has been a professional freelance illustrator for over 19 years, with extensive experience in caricature, cartoons and comic book art. He began his career drawing caricatures at Six Flags Great America theme park near Chicago, Illinois. and continues to create caricature and cartoon illustration in several different arenas. Tom has had work published in a great number of nationally distributed magazines, books, comics and other publications, as well as work for advertising and corporate clients. Tom's work is seen regularly in MAD Magazine.  He was twice honored as "Caricaturist of the Year" by the National Caricaturist Network, and served two terms as president of that organization. Tom is also a member of the National Cartoonists Society, and was awarded a divisional Reuben Award for Advertising Illustration at the 2004 Reuben Awards. He continues to do live caricature work, owning seven caricature art concession operations in four states. Tom's studio is based in the Minneapolis, MN area, where he resides with his beautiful wife, Anna, daughters Elizabeth (14), Victoria (12), Gabrielle (10) and number one son Thomas (8). Goals: Continue to produce high quality humorous illustrations for publication and advertising. Education: Bachelor of Fine Art, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN. Graduated 1989. Experience: Freelance Illustration: Over 15 years producing professional illustrations for local and national magazines, periodicals, books and other publications as well as for advertising and merchandising. Mediums include pencil, ink, airbrush, watercolor, acrylics, digital medium, gouache and colored pencil. See client list below.   Comic Art: Well versed in the art of sequential storytelling with over 650 nationally published comic pages and 22 covers. Has had comic art interpreted into four foreign languages and published internationally in titles like "Married...with Children" and "The Cone heads". Tom has done movie and TV parodies for Cracked Magazine, and has most recently joined the "Usual Gang of Idiots" at Mad Magazine doing movie and TV parodies and art for feature articles.   Caricature Owns major caricature art concessions at Valleyfair theme park, Shakopee, MN, Six Flags, St. Louis, Eureka, MO; Underground Atlanta, Atlanta, GA; St. Louis Union Station, St, Louis, MO, the Mall of America and Camp Snoopy, Bloomington, MN; and Six Flags New England, Agawam, MA. Has been doing live caricature for nineteen years.   CD-ROM Graphics: Creating digital images and artwork for entertainment and game CD-ROMS. Clients include Luminare Inc., Palladium Interactive and Wayforward Technologies, on such titles as "Star Warped", "The X-Fools", "Winblows 98" and "Super Scattergories".