Tom's Mad Blog
March 4th, 2014 | Posted in News
We interrupt the sharing of potentially useful or entertaining content on this blog for some shameless huckstering! This past weekend I added a bunch of original art for sale in The Studio Store. Included are some not so cheap original pages from MAD, but also a few relatively cheap sketches. Well… okay… it’s ALL overpriced but that goes without saying. The MAD pages are from the parody of “The Avengers”, and this pencil drawing that was then digitally colored for the “MAD 20” piece “Abysmal House”: Among those sketches for sale are both my recent “sketch o’the week” drawings of: John Hurt Peter Capaldi Meryl… READ MORE
March 3rd, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This weeks Monday MADness is a look at the pencil roughs from a piece called “You Can Write the Next American Idol Single!” written by Desmond Devlin, which appeared in MAD #466, June 2006. Clicky any to embiggen: And here’s how the final art looked: READ MORE
March 2nd, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Before I answer this week’s Sunday Mailbag, I thought I’d point out the new title format. I’ve gotten a few requests that I start adding some information about the content of my Sunday Mailbag Q&A’s, as doing a search for topics on the blog often yields a lot of “Sunday Mailbag” hits and no alternative but to click each one to find out f the sought after info is in that post. From now on I’ll add something in the title to help with that. Q: Have you ever had a “rep”, and if not why not? Do you advise an illustrator to have a… READ MORE
February 28th, 2014 | Posted in News
The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning is back with real cartoonists as featured guests as opposed to the poser they had last year. Well, it’s back but it could sure use your help: [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/87380865[/vimeo] From their Indiegogo campaign page: The Kenosha Festival of Cartooning is a 3 day festival, in Kenosha Wisconsin, from September 25th through September 27th of 2014. There will be live presentations, workshops, a gallery show, panel discussions, and community outreach by some of the nation’s top cartoonists.¬¨‚ĆWe are asking for a total of $10,000 – this amount will allow us to mount two spectacular gallery shows of original comic art, cover the… READ MORE
February 28th, 2014 | Posted in News
Clicky to Embiggen… Comic book art legend Stan Sakai and his family are currently struggling to deal with the costs and challenges related to the health of his wife Sharon, who is fighting a brain tumor and needs constant medical care. The Comic Art Professionals Society (CAPS), a Southern California sister organization of the NCS, is organizing a benefit auction and the printing of a book, with all proceeds going to the Sakai’s. They have asked cartoonists to do their take on Stan’s classic comic character Usagi Yojimbo, and it’s that original art that will be auctioned off and will be in the book. My… READ MORE
February 27th, 2014 | Posted in News
From the NCS Website: NCS membership nomination voting has been tabulated, and the nominees for the 2013 Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year” are: Wiley Miller Stephan Pastis Hilary Price Mark Tatulli ________________________________ Wiley Miller is the creator of Non Sequitur, a daily comic strip syndicated by Universal UClick. Started in 1992, Non Sequitur has been honored with four National Cartoonists Society Divisional Awards, including Best Newspaper Comic Strip in 1992, and Best Newspaper Panel in 1995, 1996 and 1998. It was the first comic strip to win in its first year of syndication and the only title to ever win both the… READ MORE
February 26th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
The Lovely Anna and I have been watching the Netflix series “House of Cards” and I have to say that is one TV show that can still surprise me on a regular basis. It took a few episodes to gather steam in season one, but once it got there it never lost momentum. The above is my take on star Kevin Spacey. The format of the show, with an entire season being released all at once, is very interesting.” Binge-watching” is the new catchphrase around the water cooler these days, but considering how long it takes these elaborate series to be shot and produced, is… READ MORE
February 25th, 2014 | Posted in General
As promised. here’s a sneaky peeky at the splash page and art for the Desmond Devlin scribed parody of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” from MAD #526: Clicky to Embiggen… Just for fun, I did the clouds and shadows in that above panel using ink washes rather than digital… it gives things a more textural feel which I wanted for the stormy atmosphere. Here are the inks for that panel sans color: What do you mean you want to read the dialogue? What does this look like… a library? You’ll have to go out and buy the fershlugginer magazine for that, clod! READ MORE
