Tom's Mad Blog
September 25th, 2014 | Posted in Freelancing
Clicky any to embiggen… This was an odd job from early last year. A design company was doing a calendar for some client and one of the months they wanted a comic book “superhero” designed that would represent a color process or technology from 3M called “Q-Def”. They wanted a little humorous look to it, rather than a more serious comic book look… that’s why they called me. We needed to explore some ideas of the look of the character, so I gave them 4 different concepts. Three human characters and a robot: Then I worked a bit on the “Q-Def” logo. I really hate… READ MORE
September 24th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This one is for Celestia Ward. READ MORE
September 23rd, 2014 | Posted in News
“Z-People” page 1- Clicky to embiggen… The last few months I’ve been hinting about this comic book project I am working on. Well, the publisher is starting to do a little promotion on the various titles he’s producing, and gave me the nod to mention it here and even show a little teaser of my art via the first page of the story (see above). The comic is called “Z-People”, and it’s a humorous zombie story written and published by television comedy writer Darin Henry. Here’s the official copy from their Facebook page: Sitcomics is a comic book publishing company started by Darin Henry, a… READ MORE
September 22nd, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is a look back at the original pencil roughs of MAD‘s parody of the film “Watchmen”, written by Desmond Devlin from MAD #499, April 2009. Clicky any to embiggen: Here’s the final art. The last panel was rethought from the original roughs: READ MORE
September 21st, 2014 | Posted in General
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GncYQHBJIw[/youtube] I’m posting this for my kids, who loved this scene in “Guardians of the Galaxy”. READ MORE
September 21st, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: The pages your draw for the TV and film parodies in MAD are very complex. How long does it take you to do that? A: As long as they give me. Actually it takes about 2 days per page. That’s from blank layout to final, colored art. Some pages go faster than others of course. It depends on the subject matter and how many caricatures or complex scenes are involved, but it always seems to even out to 2 days per page in the end. Of course, that’s just the actual art. I also spend some time researching the job (i.e. watching the show… READ MORE
September 19th, 2014 | Posted in General
Kind of busy right now so no time for much of a blog post today. Here’s another piece I had framed up at the same time I got the “Fools of Rock” piece done. Occasionally you get some nice perks for being president of the NCS, and this is one. If you call the great Jack Davis up and ask him if he’d be willing to do a drawing of Batman for the NCS’s Comic-Con T-shirt, and about a week later an original piece of art like this shows up in your mailbox, you get to hang it on your wall when the T-shirt production… READ MORE
September 18th, 2014 | Posted in Wall of Shame
The Wall of Shame has a new resident! This summer Jack Black and Kyle Gass signed autographs at the National Cartoonists Society booth at San Diego Comic Con along with illustrator Luke McGarry, promoting their summer charity music event. I took the opportunity to get them to sign an oversized print of my splash page from the MAD parody “Fools of Rock”, from MAD #438, Feb 2004. I printed a copy out for each of them. Probably used it to line their cat’s litter box. At least I got a nice piece for my studio wall! READ MORE
