Richmond Illustration Inc.

By: Tom Richmond

Merry Christmas!

December 24th, 2014 | Posted in General

The Happiest of Holidays to all, from the Richmonds (throwback Christmas Card circa 1999 above)! READ MORE

Library Journal Illustration

December 23rd, 2014 | Posted in Freelancing

I occasionally get the opportunity to do work for Library Journal and School Library Journal magazines, and earlier this fall I did a quick piece for them featuring a caricature of Travis Jonker, a well-known book reviewer and librarian who is very social-media saavy (and very tall and lanky). Travis did an article on social media in a recent issue of Library Journal, and I did the above illustration for it (set in the layout here, thus the greek text). Here’s a rough comp and one of the initial sketches as well: READ MORE

Monday MADness- Stupid Holiday Movies!

December 22nd, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness

This week’s Monday MADness features a few panels from “MAD‘s Inside Scoop On This Year’s Stupidest Holiday Movies” written by Desmond Devlin and Scott Maiko in MAD #459, Nov. 2005. Also as a bonus, the pencil roughs at the bottom (clicky any image to embiggen): King Kong Tom Cruise‘s lunatic couch-bouncing Oprah appearance was used by computer animators as a basis for one of Kong’s rampages. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire To save time in make-up, Daniel Radcliff agreed to let the famous lightning blot scar be permanently seared into his forehead with a red hot linoleum knife, having made peace with the… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag- Pre-Internet Photo Reference?

December 21st, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: Prior to the internet and image search, how did you gather reference material for caricatures? A: Internet search engines have certainly spoiled me. If I want to do a caricature of Jennifer Lawrence, I am only a few seconds away from having literally thousands of photos of her to choose from… some even show her wearing clothes. Back in the days before Google, Yahoo and their ilk, it was a lot more time consuming a process. I used to keep what was called a “morgue file”. I believe the term was originally used to refer to collections of old police files and reports, but… READ MORE

Goodbye Colbert, Hello Colbert!

December 19th, 2014 | Posted in News

Unless you live under a rock, you know that last night was the final episode of “The Colbert Report”, and that host Stephen Colbert will be taking over “The Late Show” from David Letterman in 2015. Whenever anyone asks about MAD magazine’s influence on pop culture, invariably how it shaped today’s satirical comedy becomes part of the conversation. The three things I always point to are “The Onion”, “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”. All three of those shows are benchmarks of modern satire, and all three publicly cite MAD as a major influence on their work and comedic sensibilities. Colbert even celebrated Al… READ MORE

Illustration Throwback Thursday #9

December 18th, 2014 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday

Clicky to Embiggen… This was a spot illustration for a magazine called Snow Country done around 1995 (I think). It’s a caricature of a guy whose job it is to pick up all the stuff that drops from the ski lifts of a major ski resort. The story was about some of the crazy “treasures” he finds after the snow melts, so we did a kind of “Indiana Jones” theme. Yes, that is an artificial leg in his bag. This was done in ink and watercolor on illustration board. This is a scan of the original which is still floating around here in a big… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Stephen Amell!

December 17th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I’m beyond busy right now so only had time for a quick sketch late today. The Lovely Anna and I started watching “Arrow” in the last month or two. Here’s Oliver Queen himself Stephen Amell. What do I think of the show? It’s kind of a guilty pleasure. It is way too soap opera-ish for me to really love it, and some of the dialogue is George Lucas-level awful, but the action and the slow unveiling of the story on the island keeps me interested. READ MORE

Jack Davis Hangs Up His Pencil

December 16th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine

WIRED online reported today that the great Jack Davis, who turned 90 years old earlier this month, has announced he’s retiring from producing work. Jack has slowed down considerably from the days when you basically could not open a magazine, look at a movie poster or see an ad anywhere without it featuring his art, but he has still been doing work for clients like the University of Georgia, various golf and sports magazines and the like recently. Jack claims his work is no longer up to his standards: It’s not that the iconic 90-year-old cartoonist can’t draw anymore…he just can’t meet his own standards.… READ MORE