Tom's Mad Blog
July 29th, 2018 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Your new MAD parodies now have rounded corner dialogue boxes. Why? A: When the Burbank staff took over I was told they wanted to have rounded corners on all the word boxes in the parodies. So we went from this: From “Rough One”, MAD #545 To this: From “Star Bores: Half Assed Jedi”, MAD #1 Why? No reason other than just to give it a little bit different look, I guess. I was not given a real reason. It serves no functional purpose, so just aesthetics. It’s a huge pain in the ass for me, since I hand ink these balloons. Now instead of… READ MORE
July 27th, 2018 | Posted in News
The National Cartoonists Society recently announced their first international comic arts festival, NCSFEST, taking place in Huntington Beach, CA in May of 2019. You may say “what… another comic con???”, but you’d be badly mistaken to compare what NCSFEST is going to be and your typical U.S. comic con. This festival is patterned after some of the highly regarded European fests like the UK’s Lakes International Comic Arts Festival and France’s Lyon BD Festival. NCSFEST won’t be held in some cavernous convention center, but like their European counterparts it will take over an entire town, in this case Huntington Beach, with a huge street fair… READ MORE
July 26th, 2018 | Posted in General
Superstar comic book artist and fellow National Cartoonist Society member Graham Nolan invited me to contribute a full page piece of pin-up art for his Kickstarter project, which features two books: Graham Nolan’s MONSTER ISLAND 20th Anniversary Creator Edition and Black Book: the Art of GRAHAM NOLAN! Both books look to be fantastic, which is not surprising considering Graham is one the THE best in the business. My print will be part of the “Monster Island Print Set” pledge level, which features at least eight 11″ x 17″ plates of new Monster Island images by real artists like Lee Weeks, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Butch Guice,… READ MORE
July 25th, 2018 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I am still really swamped trying to play catch up from San Diego Comic-Con, so here’s a flashback sketch that I did back in 2011 and then added the grays to before putting it in my book… Sarah Jessica Parker. READ MORE
July 24th, 2018 | Posted in News
Just announced a new workshop scheduled for 2019: Las Vegas! Taking place at Light Forge Studios near The Orleans hotel (and casino… duh) on February 8-10th. My last announced workshop in Orlando sold out within hours… just sayin’. I still have a single spot available each for my London and Phoenix workshops, and two now available for the Minnesota one, all taking place in 2018. READ MORE
July 23rd, 2018 | Posted in General
San Diego Comic Con was its usual totally insane, overcrowded, smelly, frustrating bunch of awesomeness. I was kept incredibly busy doing various commissions from “live caricature” style drawings to more elaborate cover sketches and other fun stuff. The one above was one of my favorites from the week. Typically I got to spend far less time than I would have liked to with lots of people there. That’s the frustrating part. Well, that and people stopping in the middle of a shoulder-to-shoulder crowded walkway to get their 10th picture of a cosplay Deadpool of the day. Check out this great recap of the MAD panel… READ MORE
July 20th, 2018 | Posted in General
It was a big MAD day at SDCC yesterday with the New MAD Panel and a signing at the DC Comics booth. Above are the panelists, left to right: VP & Executive Editor Bill Morrison, Senior Editor Dan Telfer, Art Director Suzy Hutchinson, Design Director Doug Thomson, Editor Allie Goertz, Associate Editor Paula Sevenbergen, and artists Luke McGarry, Sergio Aragonés, moi, and Peter Kuper. I just said something really witty, but unfortunately not out loud. Sergio does not approve. Me, Bill and Luke signed and sketched for folks at the DC booth. That’s a bootleg MAD shirt I’m wearing. More fun today! READ MORE
July 19th, 2018 | Posted in News
San Diego Comic Con is here! You’ll find me at booth H-02, which is a new location. It’s one aisle over from my previous spot, right across from the great Sergio Aragonés! Here’s my crazy SDCC schedule: Thurs July 19th: Booth H-02- All day except: DC Booth #1915- Signing: 2:30-3:30 pm MAD Panel- Room 8: 4:30-5:30 pm Fri July 20th: Booth H-02- All day except: Wacom Demo booth #5336: 1:30-3:00 Cartoon Art Museum Fundraiser booth #1930- Sketching: 4:00- 5:00 pm Sat July 21st: Booth H-02- All Day! Sun July 22nd: Booth H-02- All day except: DC Kids – Sunday Art School: 11:00am – 12:00pm: Room… READ MORE
