Tom's Mad Blog
October 16th, 2020 | Posted in News
Another thing I did for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival this past weekend was a one hour(ish) virtual mini-workshop. For anyone interested in my upcoming online multi-video caricature workshop, this is a little peek at some of what that will be all about. NOTE: This is NOT one of the actual videos from my virtual workshop. Those are still in the works and will be professionally shot and edited, multi-camera videos. This was a live, Zoom-based event. You can watch it here: READ MORE
October 15th, 2020 | Posted in General
This past weekend I took part in the Lakes International Comic Art Festival based in Kendall, UK. Like everything else on Planet Earth these days, it was held online rather than in person. That didn’t stop it from being fascinating and a lot of fun. In fact they did a fantastic job with the online experience. One of the events I participated in was a “Pass the Panel” collaborative comic, where 16 different comics artists were challenged to draw a page on an ongoing comics story. The idea is that the first artist (in this case Luke McGarry) draws a page starting a story, and… READ MORE
October 14th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
This one is actually part of one of my “Virtual NYCC Artist’s Alley” commissions, so done in a “live caricature” technique. READ MORE
October 13th, 2020 | Posted in Freelancing
I did another Halloween themed piece for Ranger Rick magazine this year, this one is about “not so scary animals”. The idea was to depict a haunted house with windows showing various animals that are considered “scary” but with facts showing they actually have endearing some qualities. The big blank areas in the image is where text boxes with the animal facts were to be placed. READ MORE
October 12th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Exactly 20 years ago this week, MAD #399 hit newsstands (for you kids out there a “newsstand” was a place where people bought magazines, newspapers, and chewing gum). Pages 30 and 31 of that issue featured my first printed piece in MAD, pictured above. It was written by MAD‘s MADDEST WRITER Dick DeBartolo. We threw a MAD party at our house. I was 34 years old and my youngest kid was 4. Today he is 24, a college graduate, homeowner, and currently on his honeymoon. Time flies. I still have both the rough pencil sketch and the original inks from this job: READ MORE
October 11th, 2020 | Posted in News
That’s it, my Virtual NYCC Artist’s Alley Table is closed up! Thanks to those that stopped by and got one of my new prints, a commission, or any of my other junk! You can always buy my prints, books, etc, in my Studio Store, I just won’t be doing comic con style (and priced) commissions until I reopen the Virtual Artist’s Alley table again. My next scheduled comic con is C2E2 March 26-28th, 2021. Who knows if that will actually take place or not. I think not… I would be amazed if we were enough out of the woods on this pandemic for something like… READ MORE
October 11th, 2020 | Posted in General
Today’s your last chance to get a comic-con style commission from me at my virtual NYCC Artist’s Alley table. The table shuts down at 5pm EDT, just like it would have if I’d been set up at the Javits Center this weekend… except I don’t have to pack up all my stuff and schelp it out to the curb in NYC! This will be my last virtual comic-con offering in 2020. In fact the next time I will do one would be the end of March 2021 for C2E2 (assuming that one will not be happening). So stop on in! READ MORE
October 11th, 2020 | Posted in General
Q: Now that MAD is basically a reprint publication, do you consider it dead? A: I would not say “dead”. I would say it’s on life-support. First let’s dispel the persistent rumor that MAD is no longer being published. MAD still publishes bi-monthly, although it is no longer on news stands and the only way for you to get it is either in comic book shops, via mail subscription or digitally on Apple iBooks, ComiXology, Google Books and ReadDC. Yes, MAD is now almost entirely classic material. It will always have a new cover, and a new Fold-In by Johnny Sampson, but other than the… READ MORE
