By: Tom Richmond
March 20th, 2018 | Posted in News
I just booked my final 2018 workshop, taking place November 30th – December 2nd in Phoenix, AZ! As always, this is a three day workshop limited to 12 students, personally conducted by me. You know… IN PERSON. I watch you draw. I pull up a chair and go over your work. I examine what you are doing, find areas you specifically need to work on to improve, and show you how to do it. There is only room for 12 students, so don’t wait around to register. Put a deposit down and guarantee yourself a space. Deposits are refundable up until 90 days before the workshop.… READ MORE
March 19th, 2018 | Posted in Monday MADness
Back in October at New York Comic Con, DC Entertainment did a MAD theme for their big company party in honor of the many years of great work the NYC MAD staff had done on the magazine. What you see above is the customized bar menu for the evening. I had two ‘Pale Ale Jaffee”s, the “43-Man Squamish” and “The Sergio Aragonés”… and I don’t remember much after that. READ MORE
March 18th, 2018 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: How do you handle drawing caricatures of people with disabilities? Say your subject has Down’s Syndrome, or M.S., or they are in a wheelchair, something like that? A: I find that people with disabilities take far more offense if you DON’T draw them as they look that if you do. Trying to “normalize” them is insulting. It is basically saying “You are broken but don’t worry, I will fix you in the drawing”. That is extremely insulting. People with disabilities are not broken, they are different just like anyone is different from the next person, it’s just that their differences create challenges other people… READ MORE
March 17th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
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March 16th, 2018 | Posted in News
Next weekend I’ll be abandoning wintery Minnesota for sunny Anaheim, CA to attend Wondercon 2018! Wondercon takes place at the Anaheim Convention Center March 23rd-25th, and you’ll find The Lovely Anna and me at booth number SP-83. You will also find me at the highly entertaining Quick Draw hosted by Mark Evanier, where I will not be just making a cameo appearance, but will be one of the three participating artists! That means I’ll be going head to head with Quick Draw master Sergio Aragonés and Scott Shaw! Lonnie Milsap, which also means I’ll be getting my artistic ass handed to me. Should be fun,… READ MORE
March 15th, 2018 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I did the pencils and inks (I think) for the cover of this “Mr. Lizard” one shot 3-D comic for NOW Comics, circa 1993. READ MORE
March 14th, 2018 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We are getting increasingly more obscure with our run of 60’s Batvillians. Here’s Anne Baxter as “Olga, Queen of Cossacks” from the third season of “Batman”. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. Bat Facts: While this was Olga’s only appearance on the series, Anne Baxter had another appearance. She first appeared in the opening season as “Zelda the Great”. This marked her as the only guest actor to play two different villains READ MORE
March 13th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Illustrations done for CNN, circa 2011 Wishing a happy birthday today to two of my artistic heroes! Longtime MAD artist and MAD‘s art director for over two decades, Sam Viviano has been a real mentor to me for twenty plus years. Sam is 65 today! That’s barely out of diapers compared to the other birthday boy. Al Jaffee is 97 years old today. He just completed yet another fold-in job for MAD, where his artwork has appeared in 500 of the 550 published issues. I don’t throw the term “genius” around lightly, but in Al’s case the shoe fits. As an artist, writer and humorist,… READ MORE
