Tom's Mad Blog
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
April 10th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to embiggen… Yesterday Moviepilot.com posted a sneak peek at the splash page of MAD‘s parody of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” written by Desmond Devlin with art by yours truly. You can check out the full splash page with text here (although it’s kind of small to read). Above is the final art for said splash. I will post a few more panels of art from the parody once the issue hits news stands on April 22nd. READ MORE
April 9th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I’m going to start a series of sketches of the cast of “Game of Thrones”, starting this week with Lena Headey as Cersei Barathonen. I have already done a couple of cast members: I may redo them, though. Especially the one of Maisie Williams. For now I’ll do other characters. READ MORE
April 8th, 2014 | Posted in Freelancing
Sometimes when you freelance, a job comes along that seems promising and then it falls thorough or never ends up being brought to completion for whatever reason. I wouldn’t say I’ve had a lot of those kinds of jobs, but after 25 years of freelancing I’ve had my fair share. Most never get to the point where I do any actual drawing for them, except when that drawing is part of a conceptual stage where I get paid for my efforts regardless if the job gets “picked up”. Those kinds of jobs are fairly common in the advertising world. I have done illustrations for packaging… READ MORE
April 7th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is a peek behind the scenes of a feature from MAD #467, July 2006 entitled “Rejected Characters from CARS” written by Jacob Lambert (Clicky any to embiggen…): Pencil roughs…Some of the characters included were: “Guzzle” the 3 miles-per-gallon Winnebago, “Denny Dent” the garage-hidden hit-and-run suspect, “Cheesy” the ridiculously pimped-out Kia, “Don Pablo” the illegal alien-stuffed Econo van, and “Flippy” the rollover-prone SUV… Finished Art READ MORE
