By: Tom Richmond
Monday MADness- Holiday Movies!
Sticking to the Holiday theme this week, here’s a look at the only “holiday” orientated piece I ever did for MAD: “MAD’s Inside Scoop On This Year’s Stupidest Holiday Movies” Written by Desmond Devlin and Scott Maiko from MAD #459, November 2005. READ MORE
Sunday Mailbag- Santa’s for Christmas?
Okay, not really a question this week, but a request. Mega fan Frank Wollard, a Vietnam veteran and frequent email correspondent, asks this: I would love to see a post from you of the Santa’s that you have drawn over the years. Great idea. In fact, I’ll post a couple of the many different Santa/Christmas illustrations I’ve done over the years for The Marlin Company (and a few others) each day leading up until Christmas… Starting with these! READ MORE
Flashback Sketch Friday- Iggy Pop!
Originally did this one in 2008, then added the digital grays when I included it in my book. READ MORE
Another MAD #537 Sneak Peek!
MAD gave me the go ahead to share this sneak peek of my other piece in issue #537, written by Matt Lassen. Now go out and buy the fershlugginer issue, already! READ MORE
Sketch o’the Week- Megan Boone!
Star of “The Blacklist”, Megan Boone! This original sketch is available in The Studio Store. READ MORE
Sneak Peek: Forcesonic Lightsaber Manual
This was a very different project. MAD asked me to do the art for spoof of a “user manual”… for a lightsaber. Written by Scott Maiko, it’s a clever take on the goofy seriousness of high tech toy manuals with a lot of Star Wars thrown in (I guess MAD heard about that movie coming out this week). Anyway I had to mimic the art style of these types of manuals, but still add some humor to it. The above illustration is the first page “beauty shot”, which MAD printed in black and white so it matched the manual’s format, but had me do in… READ MORE
On The Stands- MAD #537!
On news stands everywhere tomorrow, in comic book shops this week, in most subscriber’s mailboxes already and available digitally immediately via the MAD iPad app: MAD #537 (February 2016) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Kenny Keil, Anton Emdin, Mike Morse, Scott Bricher, John Martz, Dick DeBartolo, Jeff Kruse, Paul Coker, Desmond Devlin, Rick Tulka, Garth Gerhart, ) The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2015 Donald Trump- GOP Frontrunner (Artist: Roberto Parada) Josh Duggar (Artist: Tony Moore) Volkswagon Fakes Emission Tests (Desmond Devlin, Jame Warhola) Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal (Artist: Richard Williams) Dentist Kills Cecil the Lion (Darren Johnson, Bill Morrison) Seahawks… READ MORE
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