Tom's Mad Blog
November 15th, 2013 | Posted in Freelancing
Clicky to embiggen… Ventriloquist/comedian and client of mine Jeff Dunham just came out with a new game app called “Achmed’s Bombsweeper” that uses a lot of my artwork throughout, including the giant “RoboAchmed” above. It’s a variation on the old Minesweeper game where Peanut, Jose Jalepeno, Bubba J, Walter and the gang try and prevent Achmed from completing his RoboAchmed terror weapon. You can get the game for free on iOS and Android platforms, or play it on Jeff’s website. READ MORE
November 14th, 2013 | Posted in News
I get a fair number of emails from people asking me if I am ever going to do a DVD or a series of instructional videos on drawing caricatures. Well, the answer is “yes”, and the time frame is “very soon” now. Animator and comic artist extraordinaire Tom Bancroft just announced today the launch of the new art instruction website, TaughtByAPro.com, and I will be one of the instructors and will be doing a series of how-to-draw caricature video courses. Here’s the press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tom Bancroft, well known author and animator, has teamed up with Rich Lanam, an educational technology executive, to… READ MORE
November 14th, 2013 | Posted in General
Shameless Plug Dept. Some of the limited edition stuff I’m hawking online are getting close to the end of their editions, so I thought it might be time to give folks a heads up if anyone is thinking about getting one of these for a gift for somebody this holiday season: “The Mad Art of Caricature” Limited Artist’s Edition Only 16 of 120 left! I just mailed out a batch of these last week, and there are only 16 remaining. Here are a couple of recent ones, with the reference pics I used to do the caricatures (clicky to embiggen): If you aren’t familiar with… READ MORE
November 13th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s subject is conservative political pundit Bill O’Reilly. Good, old-fashioned pencil on paper. READ MORE
November 12th, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
Last Tuesday MAD released the latest in their “MAD’s Greatest Artist’s” series- Dave Berg: Five Decades of The Lighter Side Of…¬¨‚ĆAs the title suggests it’s a collection of the best of Dave Berg featuring not only hundreds of examples of the best of “The Lighter Side of…” organized by decade, but also early work that is amazingly diverse in style and execution, book covers, some features he did the writing only on from the brief MAD Kids spinoff, some rare pencil roughs, gag photo ads he appeared in, lots of rare pictures and other fun stuff. It also features a fabulous foreword and portrait of… READ MORE
November 11th, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
The 100th episode of “MAD” airs tonight on the Cartoon Network at 8:30 pm / 7:30 pm central time, and they are celebrating with a double-sized episode. This is quite an accomplishment considering it’s only in its 4th season. The show never ceases to amaze me in that is seems to get some very timely gags and humor onscreen despite the enormous time-consuming challenges of it being an animated show. Congratulations to Kevin Schinick, Mark Marek, Peter Giradi and all the talented, funny folks behind the show! I am proud to be a small part of the effort. If you catch tonight’s episode, you’ll see… READ MORE
November 10th, 2013 | Posted in News
Congratulations to “The Lockhorns” (among other things) Bunny Hoest and John Reiner, who will be honored with the prestigious National Cartoonists Society Gold Key Award at the annual Reuben Awards this May in San Diego! From the NCS Website: Cartooning legends Bunny Hoest and John Reiner will both be receiving the National Cartoonists Society’s prestigious Gold Key Award at the 68th Annual NCS Reuben Awards in May of 2014 in San Diego, CA. The Gold Key, awarded by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors, honors the recipients as members of the NCS Hall of Fame. Bunny Hoest is the writer of several cartoon… READ MORE
November 10th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: What are your thoughts on the new Wacom Companion (the new Cintiq/tablet mashup)? Any plans to get one? A: When I was at the Stanley Awards in Australia a week or so ago I got a chance to play around with one of the hybrid Android tablet Cintiqs, which was brought to the conference by Jason Chatfield. Jason, incidentally, did a comprehensive review of that device on his blog and on YouTube which is well worth watching. I was not impressed. I thought there was significant lag with linework, and I just didn’t like the feel of it. Now, I was using it in… READ MORE
