Tom's Mad Blog
December 18th, 2018 | Posted in News
The National Cartoonists Society has just announced a 2nd wave of guest creators for the inaugural NCSFest in Huntington Beach, CA May 17-19th, 2019! The current, updated guest list includes: Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead) Lalo Alcaraz (La Cucharacha), Jerry Van Amerongen (Ballard Street) Sergio Aragonés (Groo, MAD magazine) Pénélope Bagieu (Brazen), Ed Brubaker (Criminal, The Fade Out) Daniel Clowes (Eightball, Ghost World) Cathy Guisewite (Cathy) Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez (Love and Rockets) Rick Kirkman, Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott (Baby Blues and Zits) Patrick McDonnell (Mutts) Luke McGarry (Sad Chewie, MAD magazine) Bill Morrison (Yellow Submarine, MAD magazine) Sean Phillips (Criminal, The Fade Out)… READ MORE
December 17th, 2018 | Posted in General
Nicole from the Perfect Bound Podcast reviews MAD‘s latest kid’s book parody Don’t Let the Penguin Drive the Batmobile. Spoiler…she likes it: READ MORE
December 17th, 2018 | Posted in Monday MADness
Here’s a look at a very early piece of mine from MAD #412, Dec 2001, written by Desmond Devlin. The original digital files from this one are long gone to that great hard drive in the sky. Clicky to embiggen image. READ MORE
December 16th, 2018 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I’ve drawn and doodled for most of my life; 37 years. When it comes to caricatures, I struggle to draw features that have likeness to the reference feature. I understand your methods on how to exaggerate (T for eyes and nose, feature separation and proportions) but I guess I struggle to see a nose, for instance, and draw it with likeness. How do you reference a feature, and know exactly how to draw it with likeness and exaggeration? All of your caricatures have distinctive features that are used with that subject only. You don’t copy/paste and tweak a nose from your mental archive, its… READ MORE
December 15th, 2018 | Posted in General
MAD posted the complete second page of the parody of “A Christmas Story” on their website and social media yesterday, so here’s a look! Words by Desmond Devlin! READ MORE
December 14th, 2018 | Posted in General
I finally found a venue and a way to make a workshop in Amsterdam work, so it’s officially on for June 22-23rd, 2019 at the fabulous DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station, right in the heart of Amsterdam!! This will be a little different than my usual workshops. I found it VERY expensive to book a space in Amsterdam, so I have reduced the number of days from 2 1/2 (Friday afternoon, Sat and Sun) to only the weekend. The workshop will go from 10am-6pm on Saturday June 22 and 10am to 5 pm on Sunday, June 23. That’s a reduction of 5 hours of… READ MORE
December 13th, 2018 | Posted in General
As promised, here’s a look at the splash page of the parody of “A Christmas Story” in MAD #5, written by the Grinchy Desmond Devlin. You just might be seeing more parodies of classic or cult movies now and again in the pages of MAD. One of the challenges with doing films these days is that by the time we’ve seen it, the writer writes the scripts, the editors edit it, the art department lays it out, the artist draws it, the art department does the production, the issue is printed and distributed the movie is yesterday’s news. Sure, we will keep doing new movies,… READ MORE
December 12th, 2018 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was quoted yesterday as saying she hopes people remember her as being “transparent and honest“. I happen to be drawing her for a side job right now. I’ve got the original for sale in the Studio Store… it would make a great Christmas gift to that special S.H.S. fan in your life! READ MORE
