Tom's Mad Blog
February 2nd, 2020 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I see you self-published your caricature book. I’m curious why you went that route, as opposed to shopping it around to a publisher? I would think with your credits as a caricaturist and illustrator with MAD and all, you’d have had an easy time finding an actual publisher for a how-to book like this. Why self publish? A: I released The Mad Art of Caricature back in 2011, and I did think about approaching publishers about the book. In the end I decided to self-publish (sort of… I actually created my own publishing company Deadline Demon Publishing) for four reasons: The niche target audience… READ MORE
January 31st, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
ComingSoon.net just posted a peek at the cover (see above, art by Mark Fredrickson) and some of the contents of the upcoming MAD #12, saying that the issue “targets the television industry”. MAD has been posting small sneak peeks of the contents of MAD #12 on their Instagram page . A lot of people are highly curious about this issue because it is really the first of the “new” MAD with the mix of “classic material” along with some new content that we have been told is the new norm. How much new content? What kind of classic material? No one has been very specific.… READ MORE
January 30th, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Here’s another of about 200 poster illustrations I did for The Marlin Co. over the course of 16 years. This one was from 2012. READ MORE
January 29th, 2020 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
The Grammy winning Lizzo moved to Minneapolis at the beginning of her music career and was a fixture at First Avenue for many years. We count her as “one of us”. As always. the original of this sketch is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
January 28th, 2020 | Posted in General
While going through one of my flat file drawers I ran across five pristine copies of my long-ago sold out Batman print “Bats in the Belfry”. A lot of people ask me about reprinting this, and I have to explain what “limited edition” means. This print is so rare that I didn’t even have a copy of it! Well, I’m keeping one of the five, but the other four I have put up in my Studio Store and will sell as signed “Artist Proofs”. Get one while they last! Update: These sold out within minutes. Sorry if you missed out. There’s a good chance I… READ MORE
January 28th, 2020 | Posted in General
This is a left over from my “Holiday Commission” run from last month. The gentleman who ordered this one very kindly let me put it off until January as it was not for a gift but for him. Thanks for that, Tom! READ MORE
January 27th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
From “Muddled Family”, MAD #509, June 2011. Writer: Arnie Kogen. I always liked this caricature of Ed O’Neill. It was weird going back to drawing him after doing all those issues of “Married…with Children” comics back in the early-mid 90s. READ MORE
January 26th, 2020 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I’ve heard you mention, briefly, about being able to draw people in various positions, while maintaining a likeness, and have been wondering about your work drawing celebrities (or anyone) for the parodies that you do. Are you doing them from references that are in the pose that you want? Or are you using your knowledge of facial construction to “cheat” the pose? A bit of both? I have found it daunting to find references in a certain position, and have had limited success trying to “cheat” the pose. A: It’s a little of both, especially with regard to doing a movie or TV parody… READ MORE
