August 22nd, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops, on the iPad and in subscribers mailboxes now, on news stands everywhere on Aug 27th: MAD # 523 (October 2013) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Sam Sisco, Shira Rachel Danan, Matt Lassen, Peter Bagge, Alex J. Mann, Darren Johnson, Chris Houghton, Rick Tulka, Rich Powell, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Kevin Pope, Darren Johnson, P.C. Vey, Nate Chastain, John Martz, Hermann Mejia, Nate Fakes, Jeff Kruse, John Caldwell, Tom Hart, Anton Emdin, Darren Johnson, ) Ho-Hum Land (A MAD TV Satire) (David Shayne, Tom Richmond) Rules of Office Cubicle Ettiquette (Tom Cheney, Colorist: Carl Peterson) The MAD Vault: What Coaches Say…… READ MORE
August 22nd, 2013 | Posted in General
Finally have the website moved over to our new home, all (most) issues resolved! Regular posting will resume today. Thanks for sticking with us! READ MORE
August 21st, 2013 | Posted in General
Clicky to Embiggen… … still some issues to work out. Right now none of the individual pages/posts on the blog work. This includes the pages you’d use to order one of my Doctor Who prints or the Artists’ Edition of my book. Hoping to get this sorted out soon. READ MORE
August 18th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: ¬¨‚ĆI was wondering what brush setup you use for digital caricature line work. I have tried many different settings and no matter what I try it seems that my line work suffers in digital form. My caricatures seem to lose some “life” due to this.¬¨‚Ć I use a Wacom Cintiq tablet. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. A: I actually use the stock brushes from the PhotoShop brush palette for all my PhotoShop work. My needs are relatively simple since most of what I do is color scanned line art. I very seldom do line work in PhotoShop, much preferring the lines I get… READ MORE
August 15th, 2013 | Posted in General
Here we go again with another attempt to move the website to a new host. I will resume posting when the big move is successful. That’s “when” not “if”… READ MORE
August 15th, 2013 | Posted in Freelancing
…or “A Theme Park Caricaturist’s Long Journey Down a Freelance Path” The following is an article I wrote for the latest issue of the International Society of Caricature Artist‘s quarterly magazine Exaggerated Features. It is one of a series they call “A Master Piece”, meaning articles written by past winners of their highest honor, “Caricaturist of the Year” aka the “Golden Nosey” (which I won in 1998 and 1999). Its focus is advice on ways a live caricaturist can branch out into a career in freelance illustration: I’ll never forget my first summer drawing caricatures. It was 1985 and I was a new artist for… READ MORE
August 14th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Clicky to Embiggen… This is a little different than usual, but here’s a drawing I was commissioned to do at the Chicago Comic-Con this past weekend. Sorry for the lousy picture, I took it when the drawing was in a plastic holder, and it’s a little warped looking. Anyway, It’s the cast of “Firefly” with the couple who commissioned it added in on the right. Apparently one of the things you are expected to do when you have a booth at a comic-con are commissions for people. My buddy, comic book superstar Tom Nguyen, did a ton of them all weekend long. I prefer to… READ MORE
August 13th, 2013 | Posted in General
Just a boring update on the woes of Tom’s MAD Blog as I attempt to simply move it to another host. I gave up for the time being, so posting will resume on the old host until I can get this figured out. It’s a long story, but the short version is I moved the website to a new host a few years ago in an effort to take part of an initiative by a cartooning group. Because of the difference in server environments, the entire site had to be recoded from PHP to ASPX. Now said initiative is going to close up, and I… READ MORE
