May 25th, 2014 | Posted in News
Whew. Another NCS Reuben Award Weekend in the books. I’ll write a complete wrap-up later this week after I recover. In the meantime, here are the complete award results. Congratulations to the winners! The Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year: Wiley Miller Editorial Cartoons Mike Ramirez Newspaper Illustration Miel Prudencio Ma Feature Animation Hayao Miyazaki: Director, “The Wind Rises”- Disney TV Animation Paul Rudish for Disney Channel’s “Mickey Mouse” shorts – Disney Newspaper Panels Dave Coverly Magazine Gag Cartoons Matt Diffee Advertising/Product Illustration Rich Powell Greeting Cards Mark Parisi Comic Books Sergio Aragon?¬©s –Sergio Aragon?¬©s Funnies Graphic Novels Andrew C Robinson- The 5th… READ MORE
May 23rd, 2014 | Posted in General
Greg Evans, creator of the syndicated comic strip Luann READ MORE
May 23rd, 2014 | Posted in General
Animator, illustrator and creator of Reed Gunther, Chris Houghton! READ MORE
May 23rd, 2014 | Posted in General
Eddie Pittman, animator and creator of Red’s Planet, talking about his work and career at the Friday NCS speaking program. READ MORE
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
