Tom's Mad Blog
June 12th, 2014 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Clicky to embiggen… A couple of Sunday Mailbags ago I was asked about my work with The Marlin Company, which is the client I do all those “workplace posters” for I keep posting here. The above image is the very first one I ever did for them, done in traditional media using ink, Dr. Martin dyes and airbrush. I still do not know the exact year I did this, but I am guessing 2001 or 2002. READ MORE
June 11th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s “Game of Thrones” SotW subject is Sophie Turner, who plays the morose Sansa Stark. Next week will be the last of my “Game of Thrones” series, as the season finale is Sunday and I am getting a little bored with the subject. I’m letting you, the readers, choose who my last subject from the show will be. Here are the ones I’ve already done (by character name as opposed to actor name), so DON’T vote for one of these: Tyrion Lannister Arya Stark Cersei (Lannister) Baratheon Joffrey Baratheon Daenerys Targaryen Ned Stark Sandor Clegane Margaery Tyrell Jaime Lannister Jon Snow Anyone else is… READ MORE
June 10th, 2014 | Posted in General
I’ve been invited to be a special guest at the Grand Rapids Comic-Con this fall. The event is taking place November 21-23rd at the Deltaplex on 2500 Turner Ave. NW in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Lovely Anna will be my booth babe, and I’ll be hawking my prints, original pages of MAD art, books, and doing sketches and caricatures all weekend. I’ll also be doing a presentation at some point during the con, and it will be a combination caricature drawing lesson and how caricature and MAD Magazine fit together… so not my usual boring talk about my work. Should be fun! Hope to see… READ MORE
June 9th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
As promised, here’s the first of seven times I ended up having two different pieces in the same issue of MAD: MAD #463, March 2006: I did the art for the TV parody of “Everyone Hates Chris” written by Arnie Kogen. Here’s the pencil roughs and the final splash page art: Clicky any to embiggen… ¬¨‚Ć I also did the art for a Russ Cooper written feature called “MAD presents iToons” which were gags riffing on the at-the-time Apple ad campaign featuring silhouettes of people dancing around with white iPod earbuds in: READ MORE
June 8th, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: A few issues ago you had two different pieces in the same issue of MAD. Has that ever happened before? A: The issue Richard is referring to is MAD #525, which included both the Arnie Kogen scribed parody of “The Following” I did the art for, and the “Abysmal House” piece (written by Jay Rath) I drew for the “MAD 20”. Having more than one piece is the same issue is a rare thing for me… for any illustrator really other than Sergio. More often than not these days I am doing “continuity” features for the magazine (i.e. the movie and TV parodies), and… READ MORE
June 6th, 2014 | Posted in General
The Lovely Anna pointed out on Facebook the other day that 21 years ago our oldest daughter, The Animated Elizabeth, started an early special education program through our local public school district. Since that day we’ve gone through over two decades of shivering at the school bus stop, choir concerts, plays, musicals, awards ceremonies, lock-ins, class trips, and the graduations of Elizabeth (sort of), and daughters The Dramatic Victoria and The Effervescent Gabrielle. That all ends tomorrow when our youngest, Number One Son Thomas, graduates from Eastview High School with honors. He’s off this fall to St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN, to study computer… READ MORE
June 5th, 2014 | Posted in News
This Saturday a real gem of a gallery show of original comic art opens at the Kenosha Public Museum in Kenosha, WI… and when I say a “gem” I really mean it. The show is an extension of the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, an annual weekend featuring guest cartoonists doing panels, presentation, workshops and meet and greets organized by Anne Hambrock. Anne’s husband John is a cartoonist who does the syndicated daily strip “The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee”, and the Hambrocks live in the picturesque little town of Kenosha on the shores of Lake Michigan. This is why this small Wisconsin town hosts some… READ MORE
June 4th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Clicky to embiggen… Better late than never today… and we continue our series of caricatures¬¨‚Ćfrom “Game of Thrones”. This week our subject is Kit Harington aka Jon Snow. I met Mr. Harington in person last year at the Warner Bros./DC Comics party at Comic-Con. You would not believe how tiny he is. The internet claims he is 5’8″ but I think that would be accurate only if he was standing on a box. Maybe weighed 140 soaking wet. If it wasn’t for Peter Dinklage Harington would be the shortest guy on the set. That’s neither here or there, but it is funny how easy it… READ MORE
