Tom's Mad Blog
September 19th, 2013 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Most of these are in progress already but I’ve got a lot to get done before I depart on Saturday for Italia: CN MAD Show episode– This one is for the upcoming 100th episode in November! Brochure Cover Art– This is for a scientific event program of some kind, and features caricatures of Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and Salvador Dali (!). An interesting project and one I will write about due to a certain aspect of it I sometimes run up against Marlin poster– My usual monthly assignment Jeff Dunham Illustrations– Doing a few of these for Jeff for some products Penthouse “Dave Navarro” Spot… READ MORE
September 18th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I had so much fun drawing Jeff Daniels from “The Newsroom” a few weeks ago that I decided to take a shot at another cast member from that show, Alison Pill. I wish I had seen Alison here a few years ago when I was writing my book, because she is a perfect example of my “lines of force” theory for caricature. A central theme with caricature is the fact that a face has a fixed amount of entropy between all its elements. When you exaggerate the relationship (distance, size, angle) between some features, whatever you did needs to be balanced in another area to… READ MORE
September 17th, 2013 | Posted in General
… of the scheduled posts feature on my blog that is supposedly fixed. If you are reading this. it’s fixed and all is right with the world. If you are not reading this, I am currently cursing Go Daddy, WordPress, the Internets, Al Gore, Steve Jobs, Miley Cyrus (just because) and technology in general. READ MORE
September 17th, 2013 | Posted in General
I’m currently working on an episode of the MAD show on the Cartoon Network, this one for the show’s upcoming 100th episode! Here’s some designs I did for an earlier episode of season four entitled, “Dog with a Captains Log”… you can see the full clip on the CN website. READ MORE
September 16th, 2013 | Posted in General
That’s Italian for “Buy my Stuff!” One week from today will mark 25 years since The Lovely Anna and I walked down the aisle and became husband and wife. I’ll have a bit more on that when the big day arrives, but only if I can figure out how to fix the “scheduled posts” feature of my blog as it’s broken right now and I won’t be home. In fact, Anna and I will be in Venice having dinner overlooking the lagoon on a fabulous eleven day tour of Italy that evening… a dream trip of ours we’ve been saving up for for a long… READ MORE
September 16th, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
Seems like a long time since I’ve done one of these… every (supposedly) Monday I try and post some MAD related art or tid-bit no one has seen on the blog before. Sometimes it’s all the pencil roughs from a project, or something behind-the-scenes, or just some cool thing MAD has got going, like a book project or some such. Today’s Monday MADness is something that demonstrates I am either losing my mind or have been in this business too long. It’s a caricature of TV talk show host Conan O’Brien I did for MAD back in 2010… my apologies for the LONG post: The… READ MORE
September 15th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I know from reading your blog that a caricaturist can use caricatures of celebrities to display their work, but cannot sell them due to the celebrity “owning” their likeness, and that it is not worth the hassle of getting into legal trouble doing it. Having said that, an artist sold a painting of a nude Bea Arthur a few months back- Don’t the same rules apply? Or are exemptions made for “fine” art? A: I’d like to preface my comments below by saying I am not a lawyer and this is not meant to substitute for real legal advice… I’m just a guy who… READ MORE
September 14th, 2013 | Posted in General
For all those of you getting tired of the USO tour posts, this is the last one. On to regular life… People in the military all know what a challenge coin is, but few civilians do. A challenge, or unit, coin is a medallion that represents affiliation, support or patronage to the organization minted on the coin. Almost all military units have their own coins, carried by the members of the units, and commanders often have special coins to give out when someone does something special for the unit. According to legend, the challenge coin originated during World War I, when American volunteers from all… READ MORE
