By: Tom Richmond
March 20th, 2015 | Posted in General
If you are attending the Toronto ComiCon this weekend, stop by and see me at the National Cartoonists Society booth #117! I’ll have copies of my book, my Sherlock and Batman LE prints, exclusive comic con print-cards and original art pages from MAD for sale, and I’ll be doing caricatures and commissions! Also meet “Between Friends” cartoonist Sandra Bell-Lundy, and on Saturday cartoonist/illustrator Mike Cope! The NCS will have some of it’s fantastic comic con T-shirts available as well, with art from the likes of Sergio Aaragon?¬©s, Jack Davis, Garry Trudeau, Mike Peters, Patrick McDonnell, Bill Ameca, Jim Borgman, Rick Kirkman, Jeff Keane and others!… READ MORE
March 19th, 2015 | Posted in News
I just read on Mark Evanier‘s blog that longtime MAD writer Lou Silverstone passed away this past Monday, March 16th at age 90. I never met or worked with him, he having left MAD in the early 90’s and going over to Cracked to write and eventually become an editor there, But I always enjoyed his work on MAD‘s TV parodies. He teamed up a few times with Mort Drucker and especially often with Angelo Torres on many, many classic MAD spoofs. Some of my favorites were “Bats-Man”, “Clodumbo”, “Miami Price” and “The Greatest American Zero”. So long, Lou. Thanks for the many laughs! READ MORE
March 19th, 2015 | Posted in News
I’m off to the Toronto ComiCon! You’ll find me at the NCS booth (117) doing caricatures/commissions and with plenty of original MAD pages, prints, and books for sale. One new wrinkle: Exclusive ComiCon stuff! I will have an updated James Bond #007 caricature 6×9 postcard print and a MAD Alfred/Joker variant cover 6×9 postcard print for sale for $5.00 each CHEAP! These will not be for sale anywhere but when I have a booth at a comic book convention. Not online, not via mail. Zip. Gotta come see me! READ MORE
March 18th, 2015 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s Sketch o’the Week is in honor of my trip to Canada this weekend for the Toronto ComicCon… Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas AKA Bob and Doug McKenzie of “The Great White North”! READ MORE
March 17th, 2015 | Posted in General
I’ve done a few pieces for the Warner Bros consumer products line, and the above I did a year or two ago as a t-shirt illustration. Below are some preliminary roughs!: READ MORE
March 16th, 2015 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at some of the art I did for the parody of the second Harry Potter movie: “Harry Plodder and the Lamest of Sequels”, written by Desmond Devlin, from MAD #424, Dec 2002. This parody is my record for length of any piece I ever did for MAD, weighing in at whopping 9 pages! Sadly, it seems that 5 of the original digital files of those pages are lost, as¬¨‚Ć I only found the splash page and pages 3 and 4 on my hard drive… (clicky any to embiggen): READ MORE
March 15th, 2015 | Posted in General
Q: I just watched the NCS awards banquet on your site (thanks for posting!), and just attended my forth International Society of Caricature Artists convention. How do these organizations differ regarding choosing award recipients, if at all? At ISCA members vote for the winner of the coveted Noseys. Is this the same with NCS–do members vote or are Reuben recipients chosen by elected board members? A: They are very different. The questioner knows all about the ISCA awards, but I’ll fill readers in on both. The International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA) hold an annual convention and competition each year. At the event, competing artists… READ MORE
March 13th, 2015 | Posted in General
Image courtesy madmagazine.com It’s a MAD dual birthday today… in fact it happens on this day every year! Yes, today is the birthday of both legendary “MAD fold-In” creator Al Jaffee and longtime MAD artist and current MAD art director Sam Viviano. You see above Al accepting Sam’s award for picking such an excellent date for his birthday, and Al thinking how nice it is to know he could still crush Sam’s hand like a rotten egg despite having been born 32 years earlier. Al is 94 today, and still delivers his completed MAD assignments to the offices by hand, and they are still as… READ MORE
