Tom's Mad Blog
July 1st, 2015 | Posted in General
Here’s the first of the final caricatures for my new Limited Edition print “Men of Steel”… Kirk Alyn. As with my other prints, the concept is a look at the different actors who have played a single, fictional character on television or film. So far I’ve done James Bond, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, and Batman. New for 2015: a look at the actors who have portrayed Superman. My rules for inclusion: First, they have to have appeared on screen in TV or film as the character in a production that centers on the character. That precludes advertising, odd cameos, live stage shows/World’s Fair appearances, or… READ MORE
June 30th, 2015 | Posted in General
Hard to believe that San Diego Comic-Con starts one week from tomorrow! I’m already gearing up for the event. This year will be very different for me, as I will have my own booth! My booth number is I-02, which is located back to back with the great Sergio Aragonés, so it will be a very MAD place to be. Since I have my own space, I will not be at the NCS booth at all this year. In fact, I’ll only be away from my location a couple of times: On Thursday night I’ll be on the annual MAD about MAD panel with Sergio,… READ MORE
June 29th, 2015 | Posted in Monday MADness
This is the closest I’ve gotten to doing an actual MAD cover… the cover of a special Superman issue from 2013. Here are the roughs and some close ups of the city painting that took forever. READ MORE
June 28th, 2015 | Posted in General
Q: Recently you changed your working process and now you are doing your pencil sketches for mad parodies just digitally. Is this now your favorit method for all sketches? And I think your inks are still real inks. Do you print out your digital sketches and ink over them? Can you give some details and pros and cons of your new working process? A: To be honest I have not completely switched to digital pencil roughs for everything I do. In fact I sort of go back and forth these days between preferring doing comps and roughs digitally and doing them on paper with real… READ MORE
June 26th, 2015 | Posted in News
This has been in the works for a while but is just getting announced today: A week long “Cruise with Cartoonists” in the Caribbean January 17th-24th, 2016, all funds raised will go to benefit the National Cartoonists Society Foundation! If you’ve ever seen me post about the National Cartoonist’s Society Reuben Awards Weekend here and think “It would be a lot of fun to go to one of those events and get a chance to meet some big-name cartoonists”, now’s your chance to do it… but for a whole week, not just a weekend. On one of the largest and most luxurious cruise ships in… READ MORE
June 25th, 2015 | Posted in News
The blog turns nine years old tomorrow, the first post having appeared on June 26th, 2006. Here’s my annual list of the website stats: Over 7 million page views Best day ever: 22,199 views 3,296 total posts 433 Sunday Mailbag questions answered 439 Sketches o’the Week posted Nice way to celebrate this year with a total makeover of the website. Thanks for visiting, reading, and supporting the blog! READ MORE
June 24th, 2015 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series
I was (and still am) a big Led Zeppelin fan. Robert Plant has an incredibly unique voice that ran the gamut from Led Zep’s ballads to raging rock to their pseudo-forays into other musical genres like country, pop, and rock-a-billy. I did get to see he and Jimmy Page in concert together once. They did not disappoint. This sketch is available for purchase in the Studio Store! READ MORE
June 23rd, 2015 | Posted in News
I just signed a deal with a Korean publisher to have my book translated into Korean and sold worldwide in that language. Interesting that Korean would be the first foreign language edition of The Mad Art of Caricature, as opposed to Spanish or Mandarin, which you would think has a much larger potential selling market. I had a Spanish publisher inquire about rights once but the deal went nowhere. No other foreign language publishers have shown any interest. The above image is just a mock-up I did for this post… the actual Korean cover will no doubt be different (and accurate in the translation… that’s… READ MORE
