Tom's Mad Blog
December 6th, 2013 | Posted in General
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEdRLlqdgA4[/youtube] This has been all over the internet the last few days. Artist Kyle Lambert did this digital painting of Morgan Freeman using ProCreate and an iPad… and his finger.¬¨‚ĆAccording to the video, it took over 285,000 brush strokes and 200 hours of work. This has elicited a lot of discussion and speculation on the internet about, among other things, the following: 1. Did he just trace a photo? My two cents: Yes, he must have used a photo as an underlayer even though it is not seen in the video (easy to exclude from a screen capture video). No way could anyone do something… READ MORE
December 5th, 2013 | Posted in General
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDUKzdidzQo[/youtube] This is a great video interview with syndicated comic strip “Baby Blues” creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott about the genesis of the strip. I’m fortunate to be able to call Rick a good friend. We have been on many USO tours together to places like Germany, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, and even drew together on the U.S.S. Enterprise in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. He’s an incredible talent… incidentally he was honored with the NCS Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year” last May. A well deserved honor. Baby Blues has a special place in me and The Lovely Anna’s hearts. It… READ MORE
December 4th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Clicky to Embiggen… As promised, here’s the pencil sketch for the splash page of MAD‘s “The Swallowing”, a parody of “The Following” TV show. I’ve taken to doing my roughs digitally these days as it seems to go a bit faster and I am free to move elements about and resize them on-the-fly. Plus I don’t think as much about the quality of the pencil line and am therefore a bit looser with the work, leading to drawing more with the inks. MAD #525 will be on news stands December 17th. READ MORE
December 4th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to go to Zap2it for a closer look… Zap2it.com just posted a sneak peek to the splash of MAD‘s parody of the TV series “The Following”, words by Arnie Kogen, art by me. They have close ups of the four quarters of the splash so you can read Arnie’s gags, so visit their post for a better look. Amazingly they were able to write several paragraphs about the parody without once mentioning me or Arnie as the creative team! 🙁 I’ll post the pencil roughs for this as my “sketch o’the week” a little later today. READ MORE
December 3rd, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to see the sneak peek at Advocate.com Here’s another exclusive look at one of “MAD‘s 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2013″: This one courtesy of The Advocate.com takes Mother (or is it “Father?” Russia to task for their new anti-gay laws. Written by Desmond Devlin, art by Peter Kuper! READ MORE
December 3rd, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0K2nLOcf_o[/youtube] …MAD VP John Ficarra talks MAD 20 in the latest webisode of DC All Access (John is the first segment after the intro). … also my Batsuit is just as nice, and I look better in it. READ MORE
December 3rd, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to visit the Uproxx Sneak Peek! The upcoming issue of MAD will be their annual “MAD‘s 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of the Year” issue, which in the last several years has been getting quite a bit of attention on the interwebbys in the form of “exclusive first looks” of some of the various MAD 20. Today Uproxx.com gives us the first of those exclusive first looks, this one is MAD’s Dumbest #10: a look at “Dennis Rodman, Our North Korean Ambassador”. Looks like the writer is Desmond Devlin, the artist is probably Gary Halgren, and I don’t have a clue who the… READ MORE
December 2nd, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
The great Jack Davis is 89 years old today! This from a post here in 2006: Any conversation about the greatest and most influential cartoonists of the last half century must, at some point, include the name Jack Davis. From the notorious E.C. horror comics of the 1950?s to MAD Magazine to TIME and TV Guide covers, record covers, movie posters, advertising, animation design and even US postage stamps, Davis’s art has entertained, amazed and inspired generations. John Burton “Jack” Davis Jr. was born in Atlanta, GA on December 2nd, 1924. An incurable doodler, the young Jack Davis drew on textbooks, writing tablets and anything… READ MORE
