Tom's Mad Blog
November 7th, 2019 | Posted in News
Already sold out! Sorry for those who missed out. 🙁 I did this last year and it worked out pretty well (although I started offering them a little too close to the holidays last time, thus the earlier announcement), so I thought I’d give it another go this year. I usually do not do these kinds of commissions outside of comic book conventions (my studio commissions are more elaborate and a LOT more expensive). However, again this year I’m making 15 of these personal caricature commissions available just for the holidays. I’m doing them on 11? x 14? bristol, in brush and various pens, colored with Copic… READ MORE
November 6th, 2019 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This is a pencil sketch like most of my other SotW drawings, but I could not resist adding the blue hair after scanning it in… it’s just not Billie Eilish without the blue. Oh yeah, the original (sans blue) is in the Studio Store. READ MORE
November 5th, 2019 | Posted in General
Many thanks to “Capt. Shinbones” (aka cartoonist and caricaturist J.W. Cornelius) of “Pirates Parley” for doing this fun promo video for my Feb 7-9th Las Vegas workshop! Only three spots remaining! READ MORE
November 5th, 2019 | Posted in News
Announcing another date and location for my caricature workshops in 2020: Long Island City NY, May 2-3rd! READ MORE
November 4th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Looks like “Terminator: Dark Fate: is already terminated at the box office, having opened at only $29 million in North America when $40 million was projected (apparently less people than expected wanted to see a 72 year old Arnold Schwarzenegger and a 63 year old Linda Hamilton playing action heroes onscreen). So, here’s a look at the art for MAD‘s spoof of “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” i.e. “Interminable 3: Rise of the Bad Scenes”, from MAD #432, August 2003 written by Dick DeBartolo. Arnuld was a relatively youthful 56 at the time. Of course we still made fun of how old he was… READ MORE
November 3rd, 2019 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Is Viz your new MAD? Are you looking for other magazines where you can publish movie spoofs just in case Mad magazine is really ending? A: This is good timing for this question, because I just delivered a couple of pieces for MAD #11’s “The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2019″, and they might be the last thing I do for MAD for a while… maybe ever. I’ve been drawing for MAD for just over 19 years, so it’s been a big part of my life for a long time… but it’s never been my only, or even the biggest, source… READ MORE
November 1st, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Earlier this week Sony pictures announced the details of the home video release of Quentin Tarantino‘s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, and that one of the editions will feature a bunch of extras including a 24 page “Mini MAD” magazine with a follow up parody of the fictional “Bounty Law” TV show from the film. How did that all come about? I’m glad you asked! Back in late July MAD art director Suzy Hutchinson got a call from Quentin’s production team who wanted to explore the idea of doing a small MAD insert of some kind for the film’s Blu-ray release. It would be… READ MORE
October 31st, 2019 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
In honor of the end of the 2019 baseball season here’s a look at a job I did for the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper back in early 2008. This was a full page cover of the sports section (above image cropped a bit) to go with coverage that previewed the upcoming MLB season. That year the Minnesota Twins (and the Royals) were considered to be the ‘little guys” amid three “giants” of the division. Here are some of the pencils sketches I sent in: If I remember right we started out with generic people as players, so no caricatures. I tried a couple of different… READ MORE
