By: Tom Richmond
December 28th, 2017 | Posted in General
I’m currently working on my first job for the new MAD staff, and part of this project requires me to recreate the look/style of another cartoonist. MAD does this sort of thing quite often, having lampooned comic strips, comic books, book illustrators, and other visual artists over the years requiring one of their artists to “ape” the look of another artist to pull off the parody. Doing a perfect copy of the style of another artist isn’t exactly the goal with a parody. It’s more capturing the “feel” of the work and certain signature elements of it, so the viewer sees it and instantly recognizes… READ MORE
December 27th, 2017 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series
My final Sketch o’the Week for 2017, and the last of the KISS series, original drummer Peter Criss! Original available in the Studio Store. My apologies to fans of Eric Carr, Vinnie Vincent, Mark St. John, Bruce Kulick, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer… but I’m only doing the original band members. I think this is also the end of my “Classic Rock Series”, I’m getting bored coming up with new subjects. Time to start doing something new in 2018! READ MORE
December 26th, 2017 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at one of the more unique movie parodies I’ve done for MAD, “Green Lantern” from MAD #510, August 2011. written by Desmond Devlin. It was not unique because of the film, but because of a rare instance of the MAD editors cutting a gag of mine, some experimenting on my part with my process, and a bizarre request for a cameo. First, the MAD edit: This was my pencil rough for the splash page: The “finger” ring construct was my gag. It’s not very often the editors step in and nix a gag I come up with, but… READ MORE
December 25th, 2017 | Posted in General
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Peace, Happiness, and Joy to all! READ MORE
December 24th, 2017 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: How often do you get to a museum or gallery, if at all, for inspiration or simply to reacquaint with the Old Masters? Do you try to go when overseas, or another American city, when doing your workshops? Who among the “greats” have influenced you — from Rembrandt to Rockwell..? A: My wife The Lovely Anna is the fine art connoisseur, but I also enjoy visiting art museums when we travel. When is comes to “being inspired” by the works of the Old Masters I guess I am inspired only in the way that anyone is when looking at incredible pieces of art. I… READ MORE
December 22nd, 2017 | Posted in Stuff from my Studio
This is a new occasional feature here on Tom’s Mad Blog, where I post a picture of something on the walls or shelves of my studio and tell a little story about it. That might sound boring but actually almost everything in my studio has some kind of significance for me… it was either obtained in some interesting way, or is a remembrance of some trip or event from my life, or was given to me from someone special or for some special reason, or is just incredibly freaking cool. I’ve got very little “just picked this up at Target” sort of stuff. By the… READ MORE
December 21st, 2017 | Posted in News
Above: art from my Pittsburgh workshop last June I just added a workshop in the Chicago area taking place April 20th-22nd, 2018! It will take place at the Comfort Suites in Schaumburg, IL just outside Chicago. Visit the Chicago workshop page for all the details and to place your deposit to reserve a space. So what do you get at these workshops? Well, three days of intense drawing and learning about caricatures with me, lots of one-on-one instruction where I work with you on your specific areas of need, a class lunch, and a bag full of swag including having your caricature drawn in my… READ MORE
December 20th, 2017 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series
Another in my series of caricatures of KISS… guitarist Ace Frehley! As always the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
