Tom's Mad Blog
August 20th, 2015 | Posted in News
Staring this afternoon you’ll find The Lovely Anna and me at Wizard World Comic Con Chicago at booth F-15 in Artists’ Alley. We have a nice corner booth this year. I’ll have the usual stuff and a few new things since my last visit to Chicago available: Signed copies of “The Mad Art of Caricature” Original MAD artwork NEW: Various pencil sketches ranging from $25 to $75 Limited edition prints: “Men of Steel” NEW! “Bats in the Belfry” “The Game is Afoot” My “Presidential Caricatures” poster NEW! Assorted copies of MAD (signed) Exclusive mini-prints of my sold out James Bond print and one of my… READ MORE
August 19th, 2015 | Posted in General
I’m forgoing my Sketch o’the Week this week to show this illustration I did in honor of Yvonne Craig, who passed away Monday at 78 after a two year battle with breast cancer. I had an enormous crush on Ms. Craig as a kid when I loved the Batman TV show. Then I had a different sort of …. uh…. crush on her when I realized as a teenager she played a scantily clad green Orion slave girl who tried to seduce and kill Kirk in an episode of the original Star Trek series. No doubt she played many other roles, but those were the… READ MORE
August 18th, 2015 | Posted in General
It happens to live caricaturists all the time the world over… you flip the drawing over to show it to your customer/model and their response is “I look like I’m pissed off!” It’s hard to explain to someone that, when they aren’t actively smiling, certain faces just look that way, and when you exaggerate features they tend to look even more “that way”. Now thanks to internet memes, this type of face has a label: Resting Bitch Face (RBF). Yes. it finally has a name and is on the radar of the world at large. Caricaturists everywhere rejoice. RBF is a face that, when at… READ MORE
August 17th, 2015 | Posted in Monday MADness
Here’s a look at the pencil roughs for MAD‘s parody of “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” that was at exclusive part of the special Loot Crate issue. If it seems my roughs get progressively rougher as the parody goes along, that is not your imagination, that is the deadline looming: READ MORE
August 16th, 2015 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Do you ever argue with art directors on a piece you are working on when they want changes you think will ruin the piece? Do you ever refuse to make the changes? A: The short answer to that first part is no. I would say I do not ever really “argue” with an art director. That said, I will “go to bat” for some aspect of the artwork I am doing for them if I think the changes they want work against the effectiveness of the piece. What I mean by “go to bat” is if I think something they want changed really does… READ MORE
August 13th, 2015 | Posted in General
One week from today I’ll be at Wizard World Comic Con Chicago, booth F-15 in Artists’ Alley. I’ll be pimping the following: Signed copies of “The Mad Art of Caricature” Original MAD artwork NEW: Various pencil sketches ranging from $25 to $75 Limited edition prints: “Men of Steel” “Bat’s in the Belfry” “The Game is Afoot” My “Presidential Caricatures” poster Assorted copies of MAD (signed) Exclusive mini-prints of my sold out James Bond print and one of my DC variant covers Commissions and caricatures I’m also doing a panel on Thursday: Thursday August 20: 5:30-6:15 PM HOW TO DRAW FUNNY! WITH MAD’S TOM RICHMOND, THE… READ MORE
August 12th, 2015 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here’s the last of my “True Detective” series, “Frank Semyon” as portrayed by Vince Vaughn. I have to say I was disappointed in this season of “True Detective” (Don’t worry, no spoilers here). The storytelling was convoluted, introducing motivations and characters involved in key events almost right before the plot lines they were part of were resolved. That’s not very fair when viewers spend 8 plus hours trying to understand the story behind the crime being investigated. Sloppy and poor storytelling, and a waste of a dynamite cast. Ah, well… The show did have some great moments. As always, this sketch is available for purchase… READ MORE
August 11th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As promised, here’s a look at some of the art from MAD‘s parody of “The Avengers: Age of Ultron”, written by Desmond Devlin. Clicky any to embiggen… Whaddya mean you want to read Des’s jokes in the word boxes??? What does this look like… a furshlugginer library?!? Go out and buy a copy of MAD #535, clod! READ MORE
