By: Tom Richmond
March 13th, 2018 | Posted in News
Above: Class illustration from my recent workshop in Los Angeles Hey Northwest U.S. artists! Announcing one of my three day caricature workshops in Portland OR! The dates are Fri June 29th to Sun July 1st. The workshop will be taking place in the Wacom Experience Center at Wacom headquarters. This is a great space and best of all Wacom will be providing digital equipment for students to use if desired. As a result I’ll be spending a little more time demoing and teaching my digital coloring techniques than I usually do at these workshops. Otherwise the weekend will be the usual intense learning and drawing… READ MORE
March 12th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Caricature of longtime MAD scribe Des Devlin for MAD 550’s feature article “Gotcha! Mug Shots of Common (but Despicable) Criminals” written by Scott Maiko. Uhhh… sorry, Des? READ MORE
March 11th, 2018 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: When doing live caricatures: What do you say to a customer who just cannot sit still and moves the head here and there? A: SHUT THE HELL UP AND SIT STILL!!!! Thanks to Dominick Zeillinger for the question. If you have a question you want answered for the mailbag about cartooning, illustration, MAD Magazine, caricature or similar, e-mail me and I’ll try and answer it here! READ MORE
March 9th, 2018 | Posted in News
My caricature workshop in Dallas TX just got started a few minutes ago! I’ll be announcing my last two scheduled workshops for 2018 next week, one in Portland OR June 29-July 1 and one in Phoenix, AZ Nov 30- December 2nd. Details to follow! READ MORE
March 8th, 2018 | Posted in Stuff from my Studio
These two sculptured caricatures of me that adorn my studio shelves are by some insanely talented friends of mine. The top one is by Celestia Ward, who along with husband Robert Sundin III (a.k.a. Sundini) own Two Head Studios and are prominent caricaturists in the Las Vegas area. Celestia does 2D and 3D work, among a lot of other creative endeavors. If her name seems familiar to you (and you have read my book The Mad Art of Caricature) that’s because she was that book’s editor!! She did this sculpture for my 35th birthday in 2001. She is depicting me at the drawing board, airbrush… READ MORE
March 7th, 2018 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s ’66 Batvillian is Roddy McDowall as “Bookworm”, original available in the Studio Store as usual. BatFacts: Many TV Trivia and information books incorrectly state that actress Joan Crawford played “the Printer’s Devil”, an assistant to Roddy McDowall‘s Bookworm, in the first season episode. This error occurred when one book accidentally misspelled actor John Crawford‘s name. Many subsequent books then used this one erroneous book as a reference without bothering to check the accuracy of the listing. Joan Crawford never appeared on “Batman”, that role was played by John Crawford. READ MORE
March 6th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The other day I was talking to someone about MAD‘s history and had to correct them about something that is a persistent inaccuracy about why MAD went from a comic book to a magazine: the mistaken belief that the 1954 congressional hearings on comic books and “juvenile delinquency” had anything to do with it. For some reason people think that Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Gaines changed MAD from a comic book to a magazine in order to avoid having to adhere to the then newly formed Comics Code Authority, a self-censoring body the comic book industry created to avoid the government censorship that was on… READ MORE
March 5th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I often get asked what my favorite job for MAD has been, and while the standard answer is “the last one”, this one I did of the TV show “Breaking Bad” for MAD #516 (Aug 2012) and written by Desmond Devlin is right up there. Here are the pencil roughs for that job, plus all the final art. For some reason I did “full art” on this one and did not ink in the word boxes like I usually do. I honestly cannot remember why I decided to do that, but there it is. READ MORE
