Tom's Mad Blog
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
April 6th, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Would you like to see a MAD’s Maddest Artists edition of your work? I personally would love to see one as you are my favorite contributor who is not of the original gang of idiots. Also do you think you have had a big impact on the magazine like others who got their own books: Mort (Drucker), Don (Martin), Sergio (Aragon?¬©s) , and Dave (Berg)? A: First part: I’m flattered, but I do not have anywhere near the body of work deserving of such a collection, and there are many, many MAD artists more deserving of a collection that I am. Jack Davis, Wally… READ MORE
April 4th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Like this. Sculpture by Jordu Schell, via this website. Hat tip to Dalton Vaughn and Doug Gilford‘s MAD Cover Site, Facebook edition. This is really well done, because it isn’t easy to make Alfred look convincing in three dimensions. Not only are his eyes uneven, but the center axis of his face is slightly tilted, and one side has considerably more space between the eye and hairline than the other. His ears are also lower than natural, and asymmetrical. There is a lot about his face that is ‘off” in a way that only stands out when you see a mirror image of it. Drawing… READ MORE
