Tom's Mad Blog
December 8th, 2019 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Will you please do one of your caricature workshops in my area/backyard? A: I’m in Orlando right now, on the last day of teaching another of my caricature workshop. I just posted a new workshop location/dates for August in Detroit, MI yesterday. Whenever I post a new workshop, I invariably get the following: “Can you do one in Miami/Dallas/Brazil/my backyard?” I get this one a lot… so often I repost the answer now and then. The answer is “maybe”, but there IS a way you can make it happen if you really want to. I choose where I am going to try and do a workshop… READ MORE
December 6th, 2019 | Posted in News
Just announced! An August 7th-9th workshop in the Detroit MI area! There are already several spots taken by people on my mailing list, who get advanced notice of new workshops before I announce them here, so don’t wait around too long if you want a spot in this one! In fact, I only have a few spots available for any of my announced 2020 workshops. I’m sold out in Burbank and Las Vegas, have only one left in Chicago, two in Long Island City and three in Dublin! There’s several still in Vienna but those are the only two workshops in 2020 in Europe. Spots… READ MORE
December 5th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD shared this on Twitter the other day, so I guess it’s ok to share here. This is one of my caricatures of 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates (some now former candidates… they are dropping like flies!) for the ‘Democratic MADvent calendar”, written by Amanda Stellberg. MAD #11 on sale in comic book stores and via digital on 12/18. READ MORE
December 4th, 2019 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Kind of a sourpuss Robert De Niro for this week’s sketch, original available in the Studio Store. I used the same reference for the one I did of him in MAD #11, but I thought it would be nice to do one without the puke coming out of his mouth. I haven’t seen “The Irishman” yet, but it’s on my list. READ MORE
December 3rd, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD just posted a cropped sneak peek of one of the pieces I did for the “20 Dumbest of 2019” on their Instagram page. “Madame Pus-sauds Anti-Vax Museum” written by Sarah Hutto. MAD #11 goes on sales somewhere on Dec 18th. READ MORE
December 3rd, 2019 | Posted in General
I received several emails from readers who were outraged about my post yesterday, where I showed a 5 year old piece of variant cover art I did for the DC title Batman/Superman reprinted as the cover of the Australian MAD Magazine (with modification to the art), without my knowledge or without renumeration. I guess they expected me to be outraged as well. Most were surprised that I was far from outraged. In fact I barely shrugged. Why? Three words: Work for Hire. All the work I did for MAD (and that most people have done in the nearly 70 years of the magazine) was done… READ MORE
December 2nd, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I was surprised to see (mostly) my art on the cover of the the latest issue of Australian MAD. This is an altered version of this variant cover I did for Batman/Superman #10, April 2014: Someone added the Joaquin Phoenix “Joker” makeup to the original art for the new cover. No, I did not get paid for this. In fact I didn’t even know about it until someone posted the cover pic on a MAD group in Facebook. That’s the wonderful world of work for hire. READ MORE
December 1st, 2019 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Seeing your Captain Rochester picture made me wonder what you think of the evolution of the depiction of the male heroic physique in comics since the 1960s, as a bodybuilder yourself. I haven’t bought comics for many years, and it was partly the advent of what I saw as the weirdly unpleasant overdeveloped character representations that made me stop. A: The “Captain Rochester” character (see above) is of course an exaggeration of a male comic book hero physique (although not by much by modern standards). I’m no expert but it seems to me the superhero physique of the day is a reflection of society’s… READ MORE
