Tom's Mad Blog
March 7th, 2014 | Posted in General
These Reuben Award illustrations are something I have been doing for quite a few years now, ever since I was approached by then NCS prez Steve McGarry about doing something for the 2003 Reuben Awards in San Fransisco. Sometimes the art was used on the official Reuben T-Shirt, and sometimes it was for the brochure, and once or twice for both. Anyway I thought it would be fun to post a gallery of the Reubens art I have done over the years… it also makes for a nice record of the guest speakers most years, although some years they depicted the award winners/Reuben nominees instead:… READ MORE
March 6th, 2014 | Posted in Tales from the Theme Park
This story actually comes not from drawing at a theme park but from doing a state fair. I didn’t do many of those but for a couple of years in the early 90’s I would pack up my gear and a 10×10 tent and drive to Oklahoma to do a state fair. The fair lasted for 17 days, during which I became an honorary carnie… except I had all my teeth. To be fair, most carnies also have all their teeth, but they keep them in a jar on their dashboard whereas all of mine are still in my mouth… but I digress. Doing fairs… READ MORE
March 5th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Art by Hermann Mejia courtesy of CBR.com In April of last year DC Comics did a series of “MAD” variant covers for thirteen of their “New 52” titles done by the Usual Gang of Idiots. They are doing a follow up series this year, but this time on 21 different titles! CBR has an exclusive first look at a couple of the covers, including the one above for Detective Comics #30 by Hermann Mejia. Check out a bigger version of the Mejia cover and cover art by Al Jaffee and John Kerschbaum on CBR.com. Here are the titles getting the MAD treatment this year: JUSTICE… READ MORE
March 5th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I’m traveling right now and unable to do a new sketch for this week. Here is the rough sketch for a recent workplace poster job. READ MORE
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
