Tom's Mad Blog
December 27th, 2013 | Posted in General
I have been meaning to post a review of this innovative sketchbook from illustrator and cartoonist Cedric Hohnstadt for some time but just keep on not getting to it. Today I rectify that oversight. Cedric is a fellow Minnesota based illustrator and National Cartoonist Society member, and has a lot of experience in animation character design, creating cartoon characters for advertising, storytelling and illustration in general. Back in August Cedric did a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of a unique kind of sketchbook he calls a “Sparkbook“. Cedric sent me a copy for review. First off, if you are looking for a book… READ MORE
December 26th, 2013 | Posted in Tales from the Theme Park
Technically this isn’t from a theme park experience but it’s close enough‚ and it’s got a Christmas connection. Back when I was going to art school in St. Paul, MN, circa 1986-1989, I did caricatures at bars and nightclubs on evenings and weekends to make some extra money. For a few years during the Christmas season I set up a booth at an event called “A Victorian Christmas”. This took place on evenings, weekends, and full time between Christmas and New Years, at an upscale shopping center called Riverplace. Riverplace was located on the Mississippi overlooking downtown Minneapolis and its existence as a retail center… READ MORE
December 25th, 2013 | Posted in General
Happy holidays and Merry Christmas from the Richmond family! READ MORE
December 24th, 2013 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
What, me work over Christmas? Yep. Here’s what’s on the board right now: 7 Page MAD Movie Parody– Special art commission- A rarity for me, but more on that later this week 40 plus page comic book project– This one will be a lot of work, but my first long comic book story since my “Coneheads” miniseries for Marvel back in the 1990’s! I’ll be sure to plug it here when I get the go ahead. Marlin Workplace poster– my usual monthly assignment Speaking of workplace posters here are a couple I did recently… sketches and finishes: READ MORE
December 23rd, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness features a few panels from “MAD‘s Inside Scoop On This Year’s Stupidest Holiday Movies” written by Desmond Devlin and Scott Maiko in MAD #459, Nov. 2005 (clicky any image to embiggen): King Kong Tom Cruise‘s lunatic couch-bouncing Oprah appearance was used by computer animators as a basis for one of Kong’s rampages. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire To save time in make-up, Daniel Radcliff agreed to let the famous lightning blot scar be permanently seared into his forehead with a red hot linoleum knife, having made peace with the notion that he will never be known for anything other… READ MORE
December 22nd, 2013 | Posted in News
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WISEeAOSjU[/youtube] Earlier this fall I was contacted by the people behind the adorable LindaLee Rose, a five year old Whovian who hosts the YouTube series Lindalee’s Doctor Who Review, about how much they loved my limited edition print. I sent them a couple, and now LindaLee is offering to give one away in a contest on her show. Just watch the above or visit this direct link to watch her latest “Fan Art” episode with the contest details. If you watch the entire (about 5 minute) episode, you’ll see her last contest gave the winner a custom piece of “name art” with their name created… READ MORE
December 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: What is your most and least favorite pieces you’ve done for MAD? A: Whew, that’s a tough one. My stock answer on the former question is “the last one I did”, which is actually not a bad answer. I always put 110% into anything I do, especially for MAD, so naturally I like my most recent work the most. However some projects, be they because of the subject matter or just a happy set of circumstances and dumb luck, end up being a favorite. I guess if I had to choose I think MAD’s 519’s “The Dork Knight Repises” is my favorite piece I’ve… READ MORE
December 20th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to embiggen… The answer to yesterday’s question as to what I did differently than usual in my art for the parody of “The Following” in MAD #525 is that I did the entire thing digitally. No pencils, no pens, no ink, no paper. Start to finish on the computer. It was an interesting experiment, but I will never do it again. I’d been thinking of giving this a try for a while now, just to see how it turned out and to see if it was a time saver of any kind. In this particular case I was a bit behind on getting the… READ MORE
