Tom's Mad Blog
October 28th, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
Tomorrow is the official release of MAD‘s follow-up of last year’s big Totally MAD book, entitled Inside MAD. Bad timing, since it’s being released on a Tuesday and it would be much more convenient for me if they released it today on a Monday, so I could post the art I did for it as well as reveal my choice for my favorite all-time MAD article here on “Monday MADness”. I’ll have to talk with the MAD guys about that… Anyway, in this new book they asked the Usual Gang of Idiots what their all-time favorite MAD article was, and then made us explain why.… READ MORE
October 27th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I have a question about the art of book writing. I own your book “The Mad Art of Caricature” and I love it, but I would like to know how you went to produce it. I understand that you use Photoshop for your work and you incorporated it in the book to show examples, but did the publisher you go through to produce it give you a set template? For example, did the publisher tell you where to place the page numbers and headings you see on each page, or was that part of your design for each individual page? I’m using Illustrator for… READ MORE
October 25th, 2013 | Posted in Tales from the Theme Park
Time for another thrilling tale of yesteryear from my days as a theme park caricature artist! I know… you are overwhelmed with anticipation. Try to stay calm. When you draw caricatures from live models for enough years, you are bound to have some moments where you do something dumb and embarrassing with the drawing because you just weren’t paying attention. Those types of things can happen on really busy days when you are going at high speed and are distracted by your environment‚ or just plain not being attentive. There is a certain subset of these instances that I like the call “missing missing limb”… READ MORE
October 24th, 2013 | Posted in General
Elizabeth on the Little Mermaid ride at the Magic Kingdom! I posted some time back about the news stories that were circulating concerning some real classy individuals who were hiring “disabled” people to pose as family members when they went to the Disney theme parks so they could juke the system and take advantage of Disney’s generous policies for truly disabled guests. As the parent of an autistic child, I really appreciated Disney’s now former treatment of their disabled visitors, and thought those who both bought and sold a way into it through fraud to be assholes of the nth degree. Sadly, the fraud was… READ MORE
October 23rd, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Right now I am winging it somewhere over the Pacific on my way to Australia for the ACA Stanley Awards… full report on that later… so I have to cheat this week and post a sketch from a job. This spot illustration of Dave Navarro as a fortune teller was for Penthouse‘s October issue, which should be out now. Here’s the final: READ MORE
October 22nd, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As promised, here are a couple of panels from the seven page MAD parody of “Man of Steel”, written by Desmond Devlin: Splash page I already posted, but clicky to embiggen if you missed it… A whole page! Clicky this one to embiggen… After all that I know you are just dying to read Desmond’s clever dialogue… Well??? What are you waiting for?? Go out and buy the issue, clod! READ MORE
October 21st, 2013 | Posted in General
I got this email from someone this morning: Hi there Tom My name is name withheld and I am an internet marketer. I have recently created a training program for people who aspire to make money online, named ‘title withheld‘. As you can tell by the name, the branding and name is inspired by James Bond, as will be my new sales page (comic strip style). My question is, would you consider giving me permission to use some of your “James Bond” images for my sales page? If you would be so gracious as to grant me permission then of course I would place an… READ MORE
October 21st, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops, on the iPad and in subscribers mailboxes now, on news stands everywhere tomorrow: MAD # 524 (December 2013) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Kenny Keil, Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer, Matt Lassen, Jay Ruttenberg, Tim Haggerty, Jeff Kruse, Sergio Aragon?¬©s and Tom Luth, Rich Powell, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Desmond Devlin, Anton Emdin, Alison Grambs, Dick DeBartolo, Ward Sutton, Maria Scrivan, Bob Eckstein, Rick Tulka, J.C. Duffy, Kevin Pope) Salinger: A Fundalini Movie Review (Desmond Devlin (2nd article)) Man of Veal (A MAD Movie Satire) (Desmond Devlin (again??), Tom Richmond) Unadvertised Fast Food “Secret Menu” Offerings (Scott Maiko, Mike Loew) Zingers… READ MORE
