Tom's Mad Blog
February 27th, 2019 | Posted in News
The NCSFest website just went live yesterday with details on the full lineup of special guests, panels and speakers, artists Alley and the Marketplace on Main St., The Family Zone on 5th and PCH, the Windows Trail, the giant comic strip drawing jam, multiple exhibits at the Arts Gallery, children’s book readings by the creators and other programming at the Huntington Beach Library, “The Great Zombie Walk” and more! All FREE to the public! You can also buy day and weekend passes for the premium events and programming taking place about 3/4 of a mile down the Pacific Coast Highway at the Hyatt Regency Resort.… READ MORE
February 26th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Whoops, this was supposed to post next Monday! Oh well. Here’s my favorite panel from “Merry Poopins Visits the White House” from MAD #6. In case you missed them, here’s the splash and a panel from page 3. I liked this panel just because it’s the better of the caricatures I did of Emily Blunt and Lin Manuel Miranda. The filmmakers went out of their way to try and make Emily Blunt look a lot less like Emily Blunt in this film, so capturing her was difficult. Ordinarily she has these sleeply-lidded eyes with a pronounced dark bulge under them, and a kind of protruding… READ MORE
February 25th, 2019 | Posted in General
I shared a peek at the “Merry Poopins goes to the White House” splash page from MAD #6 last week, but that feature I did with writer Ian Boothby was six page long. So for the next few weeks I’m going to post a favorite panel from each page. This was my fav from page 3, mostly because of the background gag. I drew in a “David” statue with Trump‘s head, with a cell phone of course, and with even more enormous hands that the real David has. I think that is a gag but I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump hadn’t commissioned something like… READ MORE
February 24th, 2019 | Posted in General
If you are into that sort of thing… I stopped watching when they gave “Best Picture” to “Annie Hall” instead of “Star Wars” in 1978. Granted, I was 11 years old and couldn’t figure out how some movie with a nervous weirdo and a lady who dressed in men’s clothes could be better than one with light sabers and Darth Vader. In fact I still can’t. READ MORE
February 24th, 2019 | Posted in General
Q: I noticed that in beauty or glamour magazines that eyes are tilted up to highlight lashes while the eyes you draw are often tilted down. Is this to emphasize a sort of “sad sack/loveable loser” nature to get readers to sympathize or identify with faces that have distorted features? A: No, and I don’t think you are correct when you say the eyes I draw are “often tilted down”. I draw the eyes of any subject tilted as the eyes of the subject are tilted. Some are up, some are down, some are even. It’s all about the specific subject. The angle the eyes… READ MORE
February 23rd, 2019 | Posted in General
In case no one noticed, there has been no copies of The Mad Art of Caricature to be had anywhere for about the last month. My distributor has been out since the end of the year, Amazon ran out the middle of January, and I have had no copies in stock here since Feb 13th. That’s because the ninth printing of the book (yes… NINTH PRINTING) was delayed somewhat by the fact that I switched to a different printer and the rough winter weather the last month. The original delivery date here in Minneapolis was Feb 4, which got pushed back to Feb 14th due… READ MORE
February 22nd, 2019 | Posted in News
It’s almost March, and that means the Comic-Con season is about to ramp up. I keep telling myself I need to scale back on the comic con scene but every year I seem to end up doing more of them than the year before. Here’s my list for 2019 (you can always check to see where I’ll be by clicking on “Appearances” in the menu): Emerald City Con– March 14-17th, WA State Conv. Center, Seattle, WA C2E2- March 22-24th, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL Wondercon!- March 29-31st, Anaheim Convention Center, CA NCSFest- May 18-19th, Main Street, Huntington Beach, CA Atlanta Comic Con– July 12-14th, Georgia World Congress Center San… READ MORE
February 21st, 2019 | Posted in News
Hot off the presses (almost), It’s Sketch o’the Week Vol. 2! 60 black and white pages containing over 80 caricature sketches, most from my Wednesday “Sketch of the Week” feature and a few from other projects. The book is proofed and at the printer, delivery scheduled for early March. You can pre-order your signed copy here and be among the first to get it, shipping the first week of March. Here’s a few sample pages: … and yes, I will have these at my next comic-con appearances. READ MORE
