Tom's Mad Blog
June 13th, 2015 | Posted in News
The new website is finally up and running (sort of)! There are a number of things that need fixing, and the Studio Store is completely offline for the moment, but the new design and layout is in place and running smoothly (more or less). So what’s new? Well, this is a much sleeker and less cluttered website, and infinitely more mobile-friendly. It changes dynamically with the device you are using, so on a smartphone you have a different layout and drop down menu functions than you have on a tablet or a desktop. Overall the site should load and run much faster, and be a… READ MORE
June 10th, 2015 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
You can guess what this is going to be a part of… READ MORE
June 9th, 2015 | Posted in
MAD Magazine superfan Steve “The Kuhnster” Kuhn put this animation together of all my presidential caricatures. Pretty cool… thanks, Steve! Speaking of the presidential caricature series, the poster is all done and at the printers. Should be getting it next week sometime and it will immediately be onsale in the Studio Store. I’ll announce it here on Tom’s Mad Blog when that happens. READ MORE
June 8th, 2015 | Posted in Monday MADness
I know I’ve told this story before, but if someone was to ask me “what was the first piece you ever did for MAD?”, there are actually three answers. The first piece of art I ever had printed in MAD was a two pager called “Gadgets to Make Your Home Theater REALLY like the Movies” in MAD #399, October 2000. The first piece of art I ever did for them that they used for any reason was something called “Presidential Survivor”, and was used on the MAD website (back when they were first doing original content on it) in August 2000. My first official paid… READ MORE
June 7th, 2015 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: What’s your favorite and least favorite movie and/or tv show you’ve drawn a spoof of? A: I have to separate those into the two categories, TV shows and films, for a complete answer. One caveat: my choices would not necessarily reflect how I felt about my work on the spoofs in question… what I would consider my best work might not (in fact does not) coincide with what I consider my favorite and least favorite shows and film I’ve drawn the satires for. Mostly my choices are based on a balance between how much fun I had doing the job, how much I either… READ MORE
June 5th, 2015 | Posted in General
Wow, two blog posts headlines in German in a row? The reason behind this one is not as pleasant as yesterdays. Right now The Munich Comic Festival is going on in, you guessed it, Munich, Germany. This year they are giving their lifetime achievement award, called the “Peng!” to MAD artist Tom Bunk… a very deserving and fantastic cartoonist. The frestival is the second largest of its kind in Germany, and boasts a lot of publishers in a huge book fair, professional comics artists doing workshops and signing autographs/sketching, and various presentations and lectures on the artform and the industry. Sounds like a great event.… READ MORE
June 4th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Number One Son Tom recently returned from a three week college choir tour of Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, and he brought me home this issue of the German MAD magazine! MAD still has a few foreign language editions out there (though not as many as they used to have), and the German MAD is one of them. The way these work is the foreign edition licenses the MAD name and format, and gets a certain amount of content from the U.S. version of the magazine. They translate that into their language and then fill the rest of the issue with MAD-flavored work but… READ MORE
June 3rd, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures
Since I am doing a poster of all my presidential caricatures, I had to do a real one of Grover Cleveland for his second, but non-consecutive, term. So, here is the real final caricature of this series… at least until 2016. READ MORE
