Tom's Mad Blog
December 1st, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Hey Tom! Not sure if you’ve covered this ever on your blog but here it goes. As we all know people come in all shapes and sizes. Now let’s say a lady is a little on the heavy side. Hopefully as she’s getting her caricature, she’ll know it’ll be somewhat exaggerated. But how do you find a balance on a “sensitive” person, so you’re not offending the person? In the case above, you don’t want to make the lady disgustingly fat and all that. But you don’t want to just ignore the fact that “she” is on the heavier side. It doesn’t have to… READ MORE
November 29th, 2013 | Posted in News
Since I self-published The Mad Art of Caricature! I’ve had a lot of people ask me when or if I’ll ever have a digital version that can be downloaded and read on the ubiquitous iPad or other tablet devices. I have been reluctant to do that because I didn’t want to make it so easy for the inevitable pirating of my book and its distribution for nothing via unscrupulous “sharing” websites. I have rethought that position, and now am happy to announce that The Mad Art of Caricature! is available via a PDF digital download immediately in my Studio Store! Why the change of heart?… READ MORE
November 28th, 2013 | Posted in General
Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving… I hope you are spending it with family and friends, like it was meant to be! READ MORE
November 27th, 2013 | Posted in News
An Open Letter to all Cartoonists: This is a wonderful time of year for most of us. Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that isn’t about commercialism, selling toys or candy, or giving presents… it’s about the gathering of family and friends to enjoy a meal together and give thanks for the things that are important in life…health, family, community and any other blessings we might be lucky enough to have been granted in the last year. For some people, the things they are thankful for can seem very distant in the face of the challenges life has placed in their path. As with any… READ MORE
November 27th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Exclusive first look courtesy of perezhilton.com. No doubt more sneak peeks of MAD’s “20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2013” to follow on various websites. I can neither confirm or deny I did the art on “Dumb Thing #1”, nor that it has to do with our current U.S. Congress, nor that perezhilton.com is one of the 20 dumbest things of the year… Fa Fa Fa! Cover art by Mark Frederickson. READ MORE
November 27th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s subject is superstar director JJ Abrams. JJ is a huge fan of MAD Magazine, so there is clearly something wrong with him. However, he makes great movies and TV shows, and I recently did a little project for him and sent this sketch to him as a thank you along with the original art. At some point I will be able to share the art I did for him… it was a sort of personal commission so nothing as exciting as a Star Wars illustration. I did ask to be paid for the work by being cast as a Jedi in the next… READ MORE
November 26th, 2013 | Posted in News
Front row L to R: Steve Moore, Jeff Myers, Rick Kirkman, Marcus Hamilton. Back row L to R: Mason Mastroianni, Paul Combs, Jeff Keane, me The Lovely Anna and I spent this past weekend in beautiful Boise, ID, in support of one of the most unique and wonderful programs to help our wounded warriors in action today- The Wyakin Warriors Foundation. I wrote a bit about it last week before we left. A Wyakin is a Native American “spirit guide” that legend says appears to a young warrior during a rite of passage where he is left alone on a mountainside to await a vision.… READ MORE
November 25th, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
In honor of the opening of the latest “Hunger Games” film, here’ a look at 2012’s parody of the first movie. As always, clicky images to embiggen. The writer of the parody was Desmond Devlin. First pencil rough Above is the first pencil rough of the splash. This was a complex splash, because all the word boxes were being spoken by one person (Stanley Tucci’s host character “Cesear Flickerman”), there were a LOT of word boxes, necessitating three rows, and most of them described a character that needed to be near the box that describes them. So, I did something I seldom do . .… READ MORE
