By: Tom Richmond
April 18th, 2017 | Posted in News
Two years ago this August I wrote about how a publisher in Korea purchased the Korean foreign language rights to my book The Mad Art of Caricature, and planned on publishing a Korean language edition of it. After having heard from some caricature artist friends in Korea that the book was in recently print, I finally got my three copies that were part of the original deal in the mail yesterday. The publisher took a lot of liberties with the placement of the art, and made some weird choices. Especially on the cover, where they moved some of the images around ignoring the fact that… READ MORE
April 17th, 2017 | Posted in Monday MADness
Here’s a peek at some of the preliminary sketches I did to work out how we were going to handle the look of Batman for Goodnight Batcave. Originally he started out more comic-bookish, and then we started working him toward a more cartoony and exaggerated form, loosely based on the “Batman- The Animated Series” look. His chin got even bigger and his upper body more exaggerated in the final roughs: READ MORE
April 16th, 2017 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I draw caricatures at weddings all the time. Recently I was hired to draw at a wedding by the mother of the bride. She was a really nice lady and I had a great time drawing at the event, but I ran into a bit of a dilemma when it came time to draw her. Physically, her most defining feature was that she had no neck or jaw line. Her head looked like is had sort of melted onto her shoulders. She was obviously a bit self conscious about it, so I did a drawing that played down her lack of a neck but… READ MORE
April 14th, 2017 | Posted in News
I sold out of the first printing of this collection of 100+ sketches, but ordered another run because I am not planning on printing a volume 2 until October. They just arrived today, this is back in stock! I’ll have copies for C2E2 next weekend. READ MORE
April 14th, 2017 | Posted in News
Just a quick update on what’s left in my scheduled 2017 caricature workshops: Eagan, MN: April 28-30th, 2017– 3 spots left Eagan, MN: May 5-7th, 2017- 4 spots left Pittsburgh PA: June 9-11th, 2017- 7 spots left Munich, Germany: July 7-9th, 2017- SOLD OUT! Long Island City, NY: Aug 8-10 2017- Only 1 spot left!! SOLD OUT!! I’m surprised the Pittsburgh workshop is not doing so well, considering of all the places I said I was considering for a workshop that one got the biggest response. Plenty of places left there. The two MN ones have a few spots left, but time is running out… READ MORE
April 13th, 2017 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Sorry for the poor scan, but this is the only image I have of this piece. This was a spot illustration for Minneapolis/St. Paul magazine back in 1995 of some of the stars of the stage musical “Victor/Victoria”, pictured are Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Michael Nouri and Rachel York. The Broadway show premiered in a test run here in the Twin Cities in the summer of ’95, and then had a couple of years on Broadway. This was done in ink and watercolor on illustration board. READ MORE
April 12th, 2017 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series
Back to my “Classic Rock” series of caricature sketches… this week is legendary guitartist, Eric “Slowhand” Clapton. As always the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
April 11th, 2017 | Posted in MAD Magazine
You’ve already seen a sneak peek of the splash page, but here’s a look at a few panels from MAD‘s parody of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” written by David Richards with art by me: Whaddya mean you want to read the words in the balloons? What do you think this is, a furshlugginer library? Go out and buy a copy, clod! READ MORE
