Tom's Mad Blog
October 3rd, 2016 | Posted in News
Every year the folks at New York Comic Con put on an auction of original comic art to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This year they have their usual stellar lineup of art from over 100 different creators. You can visit their auction page to see much of the art that will be auctioned off, and for more info. I donated the piece above, one of the pages from MAD‘s parody of “Man of Steel” from issue #524. The auction will be held Saturday night (10/8) at 6:45pm in room 1A18 at NYCC in the Javits Center in NYC. It’s not online so you… READ MORE
October 3rd, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In subscribers mailboxes, comic books shops and via digital this week, on news stands next Tuesday!!: Cover (Mark Fredrickson) Letters and Tomatoes (Ed.) Remembering Jack Davis (Contributions from readers) The Fundalini Pages (Rick Tulka, Johnny Sampson, Peter Kuper, Jeff Kruse, Kevin Pope, Will McPhail, Garth Gerhart, Stephen Silver, Anton Emdin, Paul Coker, Justin Peterson, Hermann Mejia, Sam Viviano, ) The Last 100 Days of the Obama Presidency (Kenny Keil and Jeff Kruse, Tom Richmond) The MAD “I Will Make America Great Again” Citizen’s Pledge (Artist: Ward Sutton) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) MAD’s Breakdown of Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Voters (Stan Sinberg, Sam Sisco)… READ MORE
October 2nd, 2016 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: When (and why) did you make the switch to doing your artwork digitally, and do you ever miss the traditional media you used to use? A: Back in the early 90’s I was using a combination of watercolor, acrylics and airbrush to do color illustrations. here are a few very old examples: Right around that time I started doing a series of comic book style booklets for a company that produced anti-drugs, anti-smoking, anti-drinking and other anti-stuff materials for schools. They wanted me to do the work digitally, so I bought myself an Apple Macintosh computer and taught myself how to use Adobe Illustrator.… READ MORE
September 30th, 2016 | Posted in News
I just got the big shipment of final printed copies of my Sketch o’the Week, Vol. 1 book in yesterday. The print job looks good! I have added the book to the Studio Store, but it’s unofficially a “preorder” right now. I still want to wait for the first copies to be sold at New York Comic Con next week, and I am crazy busy right now trying to get my studio work done before I head to NYC next week so I don’t have time to sign and ship copies anyway. All orders placed between now and Oct 10th will ship on the 11th.… READ MORE
September 29th, 2016 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
The drawing board is a little crazy at the moment: Spot Illustration for a Trap Shooting competition magazine Jeff Dunham product illustration Movie parody for MAD #543 Another MAD book job Z People Comic Book Assorted commission jobs Marlin workplace poster Speaking of the latter, the illustration I did a couple of months ago that would be released this month is above, pencil roughs below. Gotta get to work!! READ MORE
September 28th, 2016 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Continuing with my series of “Stranger Things” sketches, here is Chief Jim “Hop” Hopper as portrayed by David Harbour! Incidentally, I have not been adding my weekly sketches to the Studio Store lately… just a little to busy to follow through. I have rectified that, so this one and several other have just been added. READ MORE
September 27th, 2016 | Posted in General
As many of you know, I spend the last two weekends conducting workshops on caricature in the nearby city of Eagan, MN. Both workshops started with a Friday night welcome party at my house and a look at my studio, and continued at the host hotel on Saturday and Sunday. Each workshop had 13 students. Here’s a brief synopsis of what we did: Friday night: The entire group came over to Casa del Richmond for some of The Lovely Anna’s culinary goodies, a few adult beverages, a goody bag full of stuff, and a tour of the studio. I showed the group the process I… READ MORE
September 26th, 2016 | Posted in Monday MADness
Advance copies of Goodnight Batcave arrrived Friday sporting a fancy, glossy hardcover! Works like a charm! Available on October 25th where ever fine (and this one) books are sold. READ MORE
