Tom's Mad Blog
December 12th, 2014 | Posted in General
If you are like me, you just woke up this morning, looked at the calendar and thought, “Oh, crap! It’s less than two weeks until Christmas Day and I still haven’t gotten any gifts bought for anybody!” Actually if you really ARE like me that ephinany happens to you 0n the 23rd or 24th of December. If that happened to you this morning, you are light years ahead of the game! In that light, here’s one last pitch to get that special geek in your life something odd different for the holidays at The Studio Store! Times a-running out to get your stuff shipped… READ MORE
December 11th, 2014 | Posted in Tales from the Theme Park
This one is the story of the closest I ever got to getting beat up for a caricature I drew. This happened in the summer of 1989 or 1990 while I was managing a concession for Fasen Arts at Six Flags Atlanta. It’s sad that I was in a position of authority and still pulled this stunt… I apologize to Steve Fasen for my actions a quarter of a century ago. It was a typical day doing theme park caricatures at Six Flags. I was working at our busiest booth located in the center area of the park when I started drawing a group of… READ MORE
December 10th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s SotW is Italian actress, model and recently announced newest Bond girl, the stunning Monica Bellucci. For those American audiences who might not be familiar with Ms. Bellucci, she played Persephone in the final two Matrix movies, Mary Magdeline in “The Passion of the Christ”, starred opposite Clive Owen in the forgettable action film “Shoot ‘Em Up”, and in my personal favorite was one of Dracula’s brides in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”. Incidentally at 50 she will be the oldest Bond girl ever. READ MORE
December 9th, 2014 | Posted in General
I am swamped right now to the point of near panic, thanks to a week out of the studio and multiple time consuming jobs now due, about due, and overdue: Jeff Dunham Illustrations– Several down but one more to finish on a multiple illustration job for some products for Jeff’s new Las Vegas show Z People Comic– Inking and coloring pages galore Penthouse– Just finished three new Dave Navarro caricatures for his column in the magazine, with a set of three more to go Marlin Co. Poster– My usual monthly assignment NCS Reuben Awards Brochure– Will debut this next month when it’s in member’s mailboxes… READ MORE
December 8th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
Here’s another sneak peek at one of “MAD‘s 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2014″ coming in next week’s MAD #531! #13- CNN’s Flight 370 Coverage (Courtesy JimRomenesko.com): READ MORE
December 7th, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I have a question which might be a little more atypical than what you usually get. I admire how a cartoonist can draw things like floor lamps, armchairs, automobiles, etc -and give them each their own personality or quirky fun shapes. Since this is something I struggle with, I wanted to ask how much of your rules for caricature can be applied to props, vehicles, plants, or other inanimate objects? How do you decide on which parts of a floor lamp (for example) to exaggerate, and which parts to de-emphasis?¬¨‚Ć Do you have a few rules I could follow, or advice on what to… READ MORE
December 6th, 2014 | Posted in General
I’ve been known to Cosplay a bit… Late this week a minor brouhaha ensued after comic book artist Pat Broderick posted a lot of negative comments about the rise of “cosplay” at conventions. Bleeding Cool covered the story and some of the arguments both in support and disagreement with Pat’s take. Pat was more than a little harsh, saying cosplayers bring “no value” to conventions and convention promoters that focus on cosplay as a draw for their shows are doing a disservice to the industry. To provide some context, Pat is just returning to comics after two decades of doing art in other media venues… READ MORE
December 5th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Every year MAD Magazine does a feature called “MAD‘s 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things” of the year. The 2014 edition of the MAD 20 will appear in issue number 531 (cover above), which will be on newsstands on Dec. 16th and (supposedly, but not yet) on the iPad today. The last few years MAD has been giving various website exclusive sneak peeks of various parts of the MAD 20. Some have begun to crop up already. Here’s two of them: Courtesy of Brietbart.com: This one from Craveonline: In case you are wondering I did one of the MAD 20 this year. Can’t share it… READ MORE
