Tom's Mad Blog
May 18th, 2018 | Posted in General
I did the cover illustration for this week’s Commercial Observer featuring New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City major Bill De Blasio. The newspaper was out on Wednesday in the New York City area. The art and the article are also on their website. Everyone on the paper was pleased with the art, and it got a lot of attention in NYC (it even got featured on NY1 morning news)… …but the editors really made me reign in the caricatures, which was kind of disappointing. This was the original sketch: As you can see the final is a lot more portrait-like. C’est la… READ MORE
May 17th, 2018 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
In all the years I’ve done freelance illustration, this piece is the only one I ever asked to be credited under a pseudonym. I did a fair amount of work for Penthouse magazine, back when there was a Penthouse Magazine, but never did anything “blue”. The art director called me up one day in about 2008 or so and wanted me to do the art for a humorous feature article, and possibly more art for future features. I immediately told him that if the art they wanted needed to include overt pornographic images I was not interested. He assured me they had a lot of… READ MORE
May 16th, 2018 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series
I’m going to continue with my Rock n’ Roll series with some members of the 27 Club, including multiple Grammy winner Amy Winehouse. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
May 15th, 2018 | Posted in News
The Columbus Dispatch has a nice article on the “Artistically MAD: Seven Decades of Satire” exhibit that just got started at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum ten days ago. I’m definitely planning on making the trek to Ohio sometime this summer to see the show. The exhibit hangs through October 21st. READ MORE
May 14th, 2018 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at the original pencil roughs for the Desmond Devlin penned parody of the film ‘Watchmen” that appeared in MAD #499, April 2009. You can see some art notes written in here and there… some were my telling the MAD guys what I intended to do and some was direction from them. READ MORE
May 13th, 2018 | Posted in General
Q: Will you please do one of your caricature workshops in my area/backyard? A: I get this one a lot… so often I repost the answer now and then. The answer is “maybe”, but there IS a way you can make it happen if you really want to. I choose where I am going to try and do a workshop based on a few factors. Population, obviously, is a major one. I am going to end up doing three workshops in the Los Angeles area this year. I did one in the New York City area last year and just did another last weekend. I’ll… READ MORE
May 11th, 2018 | Posted in News
I’ve got a few more comic-con appearances planned for the rest of 2018, here’s a list of where you’ll find me: July 18-22- San Diego Comic-Con: NEW BOOTH LOCATION: H2- Debuting new LE print! Aug 23-26- Wizard World Chicago: Artists Alley booth TBD Sept 7-9- Rose City Comic Con, Portland: I’ll be a special guest, booth location TBD Oct 4-7- New York Comic-Con: Artists Alley booth TBD- Debuting “Sketch o’the Week Vol 2! You’ll find me and The Lovely Anna at the above this year. Stop in and say hello! READ MORE
May 10th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The crew at MAD Magazine are starting to release little sneak peeks at what’s coming up in MAD #2. The image above is from my piece in the issue, written by Ian Boothby. It’s a VERY close up cropped part of a panel from what is kind of a movie parody but isn’t really a movie parody… but is a movie parody. Why Ms. Pacman? You’ll just have to wait until June 5th to find out! That’s when MAD #2 hits the stands. Incidentally, if you are not following MAD on social media and the interwebbies, what are you waiting for?? They are doing original… READ MORE
