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By: Tom Richmond

Presidential Caricatures #2: John Adams!

April 10th, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures

Fun Facts: First president to live in the White House, his wife Abigail hung laundry out to dry in the unfinished East Room. READ MORE

Presidential Caricatures #1: George Washington!

April 9th, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures

So… about those “Classic Rock Sketches”… I’m going to have to put those on hold for a while. A long while. As well as most other content on Tom’s Mad Blog until after Memorial Day. Right now my workload has reached Red Alert, incoming tsunami, epic emergency proportions. In the next 6 weeks I have to complete the following: 32 more pages on the “Z-People” comic for Sitcomics 5 page TV parody for MAD Marlin Co. illustration Large and complex full page ad/promo for a big cartoonists event TBA soon Assorted other art jobs Finish planning, organizing and running The 69th Annual NCS Reuben Awards… READ MORE

Classic Rock Sketches #6- Jimmy Page!

April 8th, 2015 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series

Classic Rock Sketches continues with Led Zepplin’s Jimmy Page! READ MORE

More MAD Weird Al-ness…

April 7th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Here’s a great HuffPo interview with MAD VP and head editor John Ficarra and issue #533’s guest editor “Weird Al” Yankovic. This issue really sounds like a lot of fun. I can say that Weird Al has a cameo in the piece I did for the issue, and I am sure he’ll be popping up in many of the other features as well. He’s assembled an all-star lineup of contributors to the issue. read the article for all the details. The art above is a commission I did for a mutual friend a few years ago who gave it to Al on his 50th birthday.… READ MORE

Lucy Sculptor, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!

April 6th, 2015 | Posted in News

I saw a post about a Facebook group lobbying about this this over the weekend, and Mark Evanier mentioned it yesterday on his terrific blog. Now it’s a headline story on CNN. The folks in Celoron, NY, which is Lucille Ball‘s birthplace, want the statue removed because they consider it “ugly” and that it “does not do justice to the “I Love Lucy” star”. Here’s another shot of it: Uhhhh…. I have to say I agree. It is pretty hideous. I don’t think anyone in a million years could identify that as Lucille Ball if not told first it was meant to be her. I… READ MORE

Monday MADness- Watchmen Wrong Ending!

April 6th, 2015 | Posted in General

Last week I posted about how we got the ending of the parody of “X2: X-Men United” wrong thanks to working from a script in advance of the film’s release. When we used to try doing that, we’d occasionally have a panel or so with a scene that didn’t make the final movie, but I thought X2 was the only movie we got the ending wrong. An astute e-mailer pointed out we also got the ending of the parody of “Watchmen” wrong. Forgot about that one. It wasn’t as drastic a difference as X2, but they did change things a bit from the script Desmond… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag- If You Weren’t an Artist?

April 5th, 2015 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: If you couldn’t draw or work in art at all what do you see yourself doing for a living? Depends on what you mean by “art” under your restrictions. If, by your question’s rules,¬¨‚Ä† I just could not draw but would still be allowed to work in the creative fields, I think I would have tried to be a writer. I’m not sure I could have pulled off a career in that field, but I think I would have given it a try. If my entire right-brain creativity center was short-circuited and I had no aptitude in the creative arts at all, I would… READ MORE

Classic Rock Sketches #5: Ozzy!

April 4th, 2015 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series

This one is actually an older sketch that appeared in my book of an older Ozzy, but what the hell… now it’s part of the classic rock sketch series. READ MORE