Tom's Mad Blog
April 18th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops, on the iPad and in subscribers mailboxes now, on news stands everywhere Tuesday: MAD # 527 (June 2014) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Rick Tulka, Evan Waite, John Martz, Tom Bunk, P.C. Vey, Matt Lassen, Kenny Keil, Garth Gerhart, Mike Morse, Mike Loew, Rich Powell, Dick DeBartolo, Bob Staake, Glen Le Lievre, Desmond Devlin, Justin Peterson, Sarah Chalek, Mike Lynch, The Slobbit: The Adaptation’s a Slog (A MAD Movie Satire) (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) Sport’s Atrocity- (Jeff Kruse, Scott Bicher) When Delivery Drones Go Bad (John Caldwell) The Darker Side of The Lighter Side (Dave Berg… sort of) Planet TAD!!!!!… READ MORE
April 17th, 2014 | Posted in General
One of the gems in the¬¨‚ĆInside MAD book is the mind-blowing, pull-out poster illustration by Sergio Aragon?¬©s depicting virtually everyone ever associated with the magazine in its sixty-plus year history. Not only is it chock full of “The Usual Gang of Idiots”, it contains dozens and dozens of references to famous MAD moments, items and other goodies. In true MAD fashion, this is an image you can spend an hour staring at and still miss some of the gags and little touches. Fear not! The good folks over at Doug Gilford’s MAD Cover Site (ok, Doug… but with a little help from his friends) has… READ MORE
April 16th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Our “Game of Thrones” run continues with Jack Gleeson as the hated King Jeoffrey Baratheon… lets just say I greatly enjoyed the last episode. READ MORE
April 15th, 2014 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Clicky to embiggen… Things are heating up on the old drawing board. Here’s what’s going on right now: Comic Book Project- Ongoing, but going into higher gears now. MAD TV Parody- Just got the splash for that. Six or Seven pages. Great subject. Marlin Workplace Poster- My usual monthly assignment Event poster- An unusual project, will share when appropriate. T-shirt design project- Just a little thing I am doing for a good client. New print illustration!- Debuts next week! Last month’s Marlin poster posted above, pencil rough below. Pencil Rough (digital) READ MORE
April 14th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
Here’s a roundup of the various sneak peeks that have (so far) popped up on the Interwebs from the upcoming MAD #527 (besides the one of “The Slobbit” I posted about last week): MAD rules Bill Maher– Written by Butch D’Ambrosio with art by Paul Coker, courtesy of Politico Desmond Devlin and Anton Emdin take a look back at Pro Wrestling, courtesy of Craveonline. El Maestro Sergio Aragon?¬©s (with colorist Tom Luth) takes a MAD look at legalizing marijuana, courtesy of (go figure) High Times. READ MORE
April 13th, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Let’s say someone loves your rendition so much, they keep showing up for you to draw them. Does this affect your ability to produce a caricature, or do your drawings of them actually get better? A: How intimate familiarity with a subject affects your ability to caricature that subject is an interesting question. Specifically you are referring to live caricature work (I assume), and that is a little different of an animal. Unless your subject comes back to get a drawing several times a week, you really cannot get so familiar with their face that it affects your ability to draw them objectively. After… READ MORE
April 11th, 2014 | Posted in News
The Comic Art Professional Society has added their weekly fresh items to their ongoing auction benefiting the Sakai family. As usual they have a mix of fun fan art and mind-boggling work from well-known comics pros. This week’s update includes originals from Paul Chadwick, Richard Corben, Lar deSouza, Jan Duursema, Troy Nixey, Paolo Rivera, Dean Yeagle and a whole lot more. Worthy cause, great original art available, win win for all involved. READ MORE
April 10th, 2014 | Posted in It's All Geek to Me!
Regular readers of my blog probably already know this, but I am a bit of a Sherlockian, that being a scholar of the literary character Sherlock Holmes. In my particular case I am all about the original four novels and 56 short stories (aka the “canon”) written by Holmes’ creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I have a casual interest in the various films, TV shows and such featuring the Holmes characters, but it’s the original Canon that I am partial to. I was pretty happy to find some months ago that the smartphone/tablet app “QuizUp” had a literary “Sherlock Holmes” category. This app is a… READ MORE
