Tom's Mad Blog
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
October 20th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: A few posts ago you mentioned how sometimes art directors ask you to ape the look of another illustrator and how you either talk them out of it or decline the job. Are there illustrators out there who routinely do ape the look of other artists? A: Oh, yes. I know of several illustrators who have built their entire careers around mimicking the style of other illustrators. Originally this question included the website of an artist that does just that, but I removed the reference. I don’t like bashing other people as a rule, so do not expect me to name names. What people… READ MORE
October 18th, 2013 | Posted in General
Clicky to embiggen… If you do, better order soon… my limited edition Doctor Who print “The Doctor is in” just passed the 350 mark, and there are now less than 100 prints left. Once they are gone, they’re gone! You can get the original print for $25, or I will do an original added drawing of the upcoming 12th Doctor, Peter Capaldi, for the ridiculously low price of only an extra $10: Clicky to embiggen… I do not think these prints will last through the holidays, so if your gift-giving plans include some Doctor Who fans, you might want to order one soon. READ MORE
