Tom's Mad Blog
November 23rd, 2018 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I know this is usually “Illustration Throwback Thursday” but yesterday was a holiday, so I bumped this to today. We recently had a little water damage in a basement storage area and I had to clean the whole room out, digging through a lot of boxes of old papers and file cabinets full of stuff that mostly got tossed out. Some of it was old artwork or copies of same. During the digging I came across this one-page comic I did in 1991. For a very brief period of time I did some editorial cartoons for what was then the Comic Buyer’s Guide, a trade… READ MORE
November 22nd, 2018 | Posted in General
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November 21st, 2018 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
If you missed out on one of my specially priced holiday caricatures, you can still get this one I did of the MCU’s Spider-Man Tom Holland as a sample for the brush pen/marker technique in the Studio Store. READ MORE
November 21st, 2018 | Posted in General
EDIT: Well that did not take too long. I’ve afraid all 15 spots are spoken for. My apologies if you did not get a chance to get one. I usually do not do this sort of thing outside of comic book conventions, and even then I only do these full color brush pen and Copic marker illustrations on the blank MAD sketch covers (which are much smaller than this). However just for the holidays I’m making 15 of these personal caricature commissions available. I’m doing them on 11″ x 14″ bristol, in brush and various pens, colored with Copic markers and a touch of colored… READ MORE
November 20th, 2018 | Posted in General
I’ve been working on trying to get a workshop scheduled in Amsterdam on June 21-23, and it is proving to be very problematic. Mostly it is the outrageous costs of the meeting space and hotels in the area. I will certainly have to charge quite a bit more for the class, although thanks to the per person fees lunch will be included every day as well as coffee, tea, snack breaks, sweets, fruit, croissants, etc. They put on a good event, but it’s expensive. So I am polling my followers, let me know if you would have interest in a workshop the weekend of June… READ MORE
November 19th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s another episode of “My Favorite Panel from MAD #…” where I post, you guessed it, my favorite panel from the job I did for that issue. I don’t count the big splash pages because they’d probably always get the nod. This one was from the parody of “Ready Player One” from MAD #3, written by Desmond Devlin. Des suggested the addition of “Leroy Jenkins”. I had decided the only way to parody a movie that is full of MAD-like pop-culture cameos already was to include characters that no one in a million years would actually choose as their avatar. Thus you have Strawberry Shortcake, a… READ MORE
November 18th, 2018 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: You’ve previously described pretty thoroughly how to submit work to MAD – originally via snail mail, then through MAD‘s official submissions page. Now that MAD is under new management, is the submission process different as well? (The submissions page is still there, but it hasn’t been updated since the rebrand. It still has stuff about the Fundalini pages etc. in it, and as they don’t reply to rejected submissions there’s no way to tell if it’s even still working or not.) A: I visited the MAD offices while I was in LA last Monday, and put this question to MAD art director Suzy Hutchinson.… READ MORE
November 16th, 2018 | Posted in General
It’s elementary, my dear Watson… there are only six of my limited edition Sherlock Holmes prints left! Numbers 445 to 450. I have zero artist proofs of this one, so that’s it. If you were thinking of getting one for that big Sherlock fan in your life, you’ve been warned! READ MORE
