Tom's Mad Blog
May 22nd, 2014 | Posted in News
This weekend is the big National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award Weekend in San Diego, where between 200-300 cartoonists will get together and eat, drink, be merry, and honor their fellow cartoonists with various awards. This year, we’ll be honoring some other folks as well… those that have served our country in the military. Those who follow this blog will know I have been privileged to have been a part of several USO cartoonist tours to visit both wounded warriors and serving active military personnel in places like Germany, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations both in and out of war zones. Our groups meet and… READ MORE
May 21st, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s SotW subject in our ongoing “Game of Thrones” series is everyone’s favorite gold-digging husband’s bane Margaery Tyrell, as portrayed by Natalie Dormer. Gotta love that twisted, duck-lipped smirk of hers. Or hate it. READ MORE
May 20th, 2014 | Posted in News
The Lovely Anna and I are off to smoldering sunny San Diego for the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award Weekend early tomorrow. As the current President of the NCS, I’ve organized, planned and will run the whole weekend. Well, actually The Lovely Anna does all that but I will help with the centerpieces for the banquet. There will be copious live coverage here on Tom’s MAD Blog as well as the NCS site, included “red carpet” pics and interviews and other fun stuff. Just a few fun facts and other info before we head out: Yes, I know who will be the winner of the… READ MORE
May 19th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s MADness is from MAD #405’s parody of the Oscar-winning movie “Traffic” entitled “Traff-eccch!” written by Arnie Kogen. This was my very first movie parody for MAD, and the splash page was made up of a series of spot illustrations superimposed over maps of the United States and Mexico. The weird yellow and blue casts to some of the spots were to mimic the color palette of the film, which changed depending on the location of the scene… Mexico was yellow, Washington DC was blue and other scenes were normal color. Back in the early days I did the pages as a series of… READ MORE
May 18th, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I know you have a full schedule at the drawing board and a family to manage and cherish, but if you had a full day to use to just fill the well, gather inspiration for your art, how would you spend it? A: I’ve always subscribed to the philosophy that the best way to recharge your creative batteries is to do nothing creative at all for a while. My ideal day off is to go nowhere near my studio and completely disconnect from the drawing board. In fact, the less I can even think about work the better. Total escapism by going to the… READ MORE
May 16th, 2014 | Posted in General
I was honored to be the guest this morning on “Friday Hangouts with Carlos and Bob”, a Google hangout program with Carlos Castellanos (Baldo, Drawn by Success) and Bob Ostrom (Bob Ostrom Art, Bob Teaches Art). Here’s some links to the interview on Drawn by Success and YouTube. You can find it on Google+ as well. Here’s the YouTube version: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jaj-ZQbNRA[/youtube] READ MORE
May 15th, 2014 | Posted in News
Clicky to Embiggen… Last week the New York Post quietly dropped their entire daily comics section, which admittedly was only 7 or 8 comic strips, with no explanation or warning. As the current president of the National Cartoonists Society, I wrote a letter to the Post admonishing them for the action…which according to some reports was a cost-cutting move. Daryl Cagle and the Cagle Cartoons Syndicate asked me to turn my letter into a guest column, which they now have available on their website. Daryl also suggested I do a cartoon to accompany the column. Below is my article. Above is the first editorial cartoon… READ MORE
May 14th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Continuing our “Game of Thrones” run, here’s a quick study of Rory McCann as Sandor “The Hound” Clegane. READ MORE
