Tom's Mad Blog
October 9th, 2018 | Posted in General
I’m getting home from New York today where The Lovely Anna and I did New York Comic Con. The show was crazy busy, especially with commissions. One of the things I do are “sketch covers”. For those not familiar with these, they are comics that have a heavyweight blank paper cover over top of the printed cover. This blank cover usually has the logo of the comic on it, so artists can draw their own “cover” on it. It’s a popular thing at comic book conventions. Anyway, MAD has done two of these sketch covers, one was issue #539. I have a pile of those… READ MORE
October 8th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In subscribers mailboxes for a week or so already, on newsstands everywhere tomorrow and in comic book shops and digital this week! Cover (Gary Pullin) ToC Art (Ron English) Rejected Monster Cereals (Jeff Kruse, Dean Macadam) Sad New Ways to Feel Good About Yourself (Teresa Burns Parkhurst) Sven, Golly, It’s… Svengoolie (Ian Boothby, Tom Richmond) A Slasher Movie Scene We’d Like to See (David DeGrand) Melania Trump Paper Doll (Sina Grace) Cthasper the Friendly Elder God (Peter-John Byrnes, Nick “The Hat” Gucker) Stink Lines Through Art History (Maria Bamford, Scott Marvel Cassidy) The Ghastlygun Tinies (Matt Cohen, Marc Palm) A MAD Look at Dia de… READ MORE
October 5th, 2018 | Posted in General
I will be returning to Seengen, Switzerland in 2019 to conduct not one but TWO workshops on back to back weekends, again all organized through the Cartoon-Schule, a Swiss cartooning art school. The workshops will be on June 28-30th and July 5-7th, held again at the scenic Eichberg Hotel in Seengen, about an hour outside of Zurich. These workshops are organized by the Cartoon-Schule, and they do all the booking, registration, determine the costs and logistics, etc. I conduct them just like my other workshops, same basic itinerary and structure. They are done in English. I am told they already have enough students to fill… READ MORE
October 5th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
https://youtu.be/8huPKrGp2C0 The cat (or bat, as this case may be) is out of the bag that I did the artwork on a parody (sort of) of TV horror host Svengoolie and his show in issue #4. However back in July before I had that job “in the can” (that’s showbiz talk for “completed”) one of the show’s… uh… henchmen Kevin stopped by my booth at San Diego Comic Con and had me do a live-style caricature of Svengoolie. They shared that drawing on a recent show in their mail segment, video link above. Svengoolie also gives a shout out to my pal Scott Shaw! who… READ MORE
October 4th, 2018 | Posted in General
NYCC starts today at the Javits Center, New York City! You’ll find The Lovely Anna and I at booth L-6 in the new Artists Alley, and will also be on the “Mad about MAD” panel on Sunday at 10:45 AM, room 1A21. READ MORE
October 3rd, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Once again too busy for a sketch today… in fact I’m on my way to New York for New York Comic Con, which starts tomorrow! Here’s a look at the original pencil roughs for MAD‘s parody of “Iron Man” that appeared in MAD #492, Aug 2008, written by Desmond Devlin. These are available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
October 2nd, 2018 | Posted in General
Check out this really cool mini-documentary on my caricature workshops by filmmaker, artist, and workshop alum Greg Feinberg! Thanks, Greg! You can see his work at www.gregfaces.com. More workshops dates and locations for 2019 soon to be announced!! READ MORE
October 2nd, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I had planned on waiting until the issue came out to post this, but ComingSoon.net had the scoop on MAD‘s Svengoolie feature in issue #4 yesterday, so I guess no need to keep it under wraps anymore. Here’s a look at the splash page of the parody I drew in MAD #4, written by Ian Boothby. Be sure to visit that ComingSoon.net article as they have two of the interioir pages as well as the splash. I also promised to explain what makes this parody different, but not unprecedented, in MAD. A few people are wondering why horror TV host Svengoolie does not have a… READ MORE
