Tom's Mad Blog
August 16th, 2018 | Posted in General
I just had a cancellation TWO cancellations for my workshop taking place Oct 12th-14th here in Minnesota, so I know have two open spots! Visit the workshop page here for all the details and to grab those last reservations! The workshops in Minnesota are unique. The first part of the class takes place not at the hotel meeting space but in my home. We have everyone over for some drinks and food, then we visit my studio and I demo and explain my inking and coloring techniques right in the space I work at every day, as well as the full process of doing a… READ MORE
August 15th, 2018 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
On the second day of my workhops the class warms up with four quick caricature sketches, and I usually have them suggest the subjects on the spot. In Seengen I asked for suggestions of some well know Swiss personalities, and one of the was tennis star Roger Federer. The above is my sketch, which I fleshed out a bit with some crosshatching while sitting around the airport on Monday. READ MORE
August 14th, 2018 | Posted in General
My second workshop of this European tour gets underway shortly here in London! Class illustration above. I’ll be eating my quota of fish ‘n chips with mushy peas, and drinking plenty of ale. Cheers! READ MORE
August 14th, 2018 | Posted in General
Accidentally discovered that “Goodnight Batcave” has a Spanish version. Any other language versions out there I don’t know about? READ MORE
August 13th, 2018 | Posted in General
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at the pencil roughs for the parody of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” which appeared in MAD #1…. not the one from 1952 but the one from 2018. READ MORE
August 12th, 2018 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: You’ve done three issues with the new MAD staff now, is it a lot different than working with the old staff? If so, how? A: It would be impossible for it not to be different. I spent 17 plus years working with the same art directors and editors, and now I am working with an entirely new group of people. I went from knowing exactly what the staff wanted to see and what I could “get away with” to having to learn that all over again. The NYC staff had a way of doing things that was honed by 65 years of continuous publishing,… READ MORE
August 10th, 2018 | Posted in General
It’s workshop time again! My workshop in Seengen, Switzerland starts today through the weekend! I’m happy to say this one sets a record, BY FAR, for the most female participants… 11 out of 16 (one not pictured)!! I don’t know why I get so disproportionately few female students. I have another in London next week. I’m still looking in to 2019 locations, but right now all my other workshops are sold out except the one in February in Las Vegas. There are still a few open spots for that one. READ MORE
August 9th, 2018 | Posted in General
It’s been a seriously crazy summer. I just finished a couple of sudden, short deadline jobs (including two illustrations for a major motion picture that will remain nameless) while working around several comic cons and workshops, plus family drama. The above image is a cover I did for a publication dedicated to high school competition trap shooting that just got released. I’ve been doing spot illustrations for them for years. Right now I don’t have a lot of publication stuff on the board but I do have a couple of personal projects that are way overdue: MAD– a 6 page parody that’s half TV show… READ MORE
