Richmond Illustration Inc.

By: Tom Richmond

Sketch o’the Week- Chris Pratt!

September 24th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

This one is for Celestia Ward. READ MORE

Teaser: Z-People from Sitcomics!

September 23rd, 2014 | Posted in News

“Z-People” page 1- Clicky to embiggen… The last few months I’ve been hinting about this comic book project I am working on. Well, the publisher is starting to do a little promotion on the various titles he’s producing, and gave me the nod to mention it here and even show a little teaser of my art via the first page of the story (see above). The comic is called “Z-People”, and it’s a humorous zombie story written and published by television comedy writer Darin Henry. Here’s the official copy from their Facebook page: Sitcomics is a comic book publishing company started by Darin Henry, a… READ MORE

Monday MADness- Watchmen!

September 22nd, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness

This week’s Monday MADness is a look back at the original pencil roughs of MAD‘s parody of the film “Watchmen”, written by Desmond Devlin from MAD #499, April 2009. Clicky any to embiggen: Here’s the final art. The last panel was rethought from the original roughs: READ MORE

Dancing Groot

September 21st, 2014 | Posted in General

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GncYQHBJIw[/youtube] I’m posting this for my kids, who loved this scene in “Guardians of the Galaxy”. READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag- Time on a MAD Job?

September 21st, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: The pages your draw for the TV and film parodies in MAD are very complex. How long does it take you to do that? A: As long as they give me. Actually it takes about 2 days per page. That’s from blank layout to final, colored art. Some pages go faster than others of course. It depends on the subject matter and how many caricatures or complex scenes are involved, but it always seems to even out to 2 days per page in the end. Of course, that’s just the actual art. I also spend some time researching the job (i.e. watching the show… READ MORE

Holy Brushwork, Batman!

September 19th, 2014 | Posted in General

Kind of busy right now so no time for much of a blog post today. Here’s another piece I had framed up at the same time I got the “Fools of Rock” piece done. Occasionally you get some nice perks for being president of the NCS, and this is one. If you call the great Jack Davis up and ask him if he’d be willing to do a drawing of Batman for the NCS’s Comic-Con T-shirt, and about a week later an original piece of art like this shows up in your mailbox, you get to hang it on your wall when the T-shirt production… READ MORE

Wall of Shame- Tenacious D!

September 18th, 2014 | Posted in Wall of Shame

The Wall of Shame has a new resident! This summer Jack Black and Kyle Gass signed autographs at the National Cartoonists Society booth at San Diego Comic Con along with illustrator Luke McGarry, promoting their summer charity music event. I took the opportunity to get them to sign an oversized print of my splash page from the MAD parody “Fools of Rock”, from MAD #438, Feb 2004. I printed a copy out for each of them. Probably used it to line their cat’s litter box. At least I got a nice piece for my studio wall! READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Adrian Peterson

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

Watching this whole Adrian Peterson thing unfold here in Minnesota is sad, ugly and infuriating. If you haven’t seen it on the news, Peterson was indicted by a grand jury in Texas for beating one of his sons, a four year old, with a “switch” for arguing with one of his other sons over a video game. Pictures of the boy, taken about a week later when doctors in Minnesota examined him after he returned home from Texas, show horrific welts, broken skin and scabs over his legs, butt, scrotum and hands… the last of which were defensive wounds trying to protect himself. Peterson has… READ MORE