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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
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
