Tom's Mad Blog
July 19th, 2013 | Posted in News
Day one of Comic-Con 2013 is in the books. Oddly the crowds did not seem as enormous this year, which can’t be possible because as it’s sold out every day there can’t be more or less people in the place on any given day. Things did get a little crazy around the NCS booth when Jack Black came in to sign the poster for his music festival with illustrator Luke McGarry. We also had Bill Amend (Foxtrot), Jeff Keane (The Family Circus), Chris Sparks (Eisner nominated “Team Cul de Sac” book), Brooke McEldowney (9 Chickweed Lane, Pibgorn), James Lyle (Illustrator), Steve McGarry (Biographic), Greg Evans… READ MORE
July 18th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops, on the iPad and in subscribers mailboxes now, on news stands everywhere on July 23rd: MAD # 522 (Sept 2013) Cover (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Colors: Tom Luth, Concept: Michael Gallagher) The Fundalini Pages (Matt Lassen, Sam Sisco, Rick Geary, John Caldwell, Jeff Kruse, Bob Eckstein, Maria Scrivan, Evan Waite, Charles Akins, Kenny Keil, Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer, Tom Hart, Neil Berliner, Rick Tulka, Al Jaffee % Carl Peterson, Adam Koford) Proaaaaacktiv (Alison Grambs, Scott Bricher) The Slobbit (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) The Debt (Frank Jacobs, Ward Sutton) MAD’s Office Greeting Card Etiquette (Ryan Pagelow) A MAD Look at The Internet (Sergio… READ MORE
July 17th, 2013 | Posted in General
Clicky to embiggen… “The Doctor is In” Limited Edition Print 450 signed and numbered prints 11″ x 27″, elegant matte finish heavyweight professional print $25.00 , $3 US domestic Shipping, $15 Rest of the World To order for US Shipping (50 states and PR) Personalized? Details: To Order for International Shipping: Personalized? Details: Here’s a closer look at each Doctor’s art as it appear in the print: READ MORE
July 17th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Today in honor of the release of my Doctor Who limited edition print, I present the finished art for all eleven Doctors from the print: READ MORE
July 16th, 2013 | Posted in News
The San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow with the unofficial ‘Preview night’. Here’s my updated appearance schedule: Fri July 17th- Preview Night NCS booth- #1307/1309- 6-9pm- Selling/signing book and original MAD art, doing caricatures and sketches, selling my Doctor Who Limited Edition Print Thurs July 18th MAD Screening and Q&A- 10:15-11:15am- Room 6DE- A panel discussion about the animated MAD show on the Cartoon Network: The MADness continues in San Diego as MAD once again descends on Comic-Con with their usual-but mostly unusual-brand of hijinks and hilarity. Producers Kevin Shinick and Mark Marek and other hilarious minds from the show promise a wisecracking discussion about the… READ MORE
July 15th, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
Sad to hear of “Glee” actor Cory Monteith‘s death this weekend. The Lovely Anna and my kids loved “Glee” back in its first few seasons… in fact I drew The Dramatic Victoria, the Effervescent Gabrielle and Number One Son Thomas into the splash page I did for the MAD parody of “Glee” in MAD #506 (Gabrielle and Tom on far left, top of stairs, Victoria with book to right of Jane Lynch): Clicky to embiggen any of these images… In honor of Cory, here are the rough pencil sketches and final art for that MAD parody: READ MORE
July 14th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Much of my illustration commissions remain of the personal gift variety, and therein lies the problem. I’ve always tended to charge ‘per person’, with an hourly studio rate added based on detail. This is no problem with two or even three people in one illustration, but as you can imagine the price very quickly jumps up when it’s several folk, or perhaps even a group. I subsequently find myself A) feeling bad for quoting private individuals such a high price, even though it’s indicative of the extensive work involved, and/or B) not hearing back from clients who, not unreasonably, balk at paying so much… READ MORE
July 12th, 2013 | Posted in News
Clicky to Embiggen… Here’s the finished art for my Doctor Who limited edition print. There were some printing hassles, but everything’s ironed out and the final prints will be available for ordering starting next week Wednesday, both here and at Comic-Con, where I will have the actual prints in hand. Due to some odd requirements for the print run (weird size, special format, etc), I’ll actually be producing 450 of these prints, rather than 250. Here’s the pricing and availability: “The Doctor is In” Limited Edition Print 450 signed and numbered prints 11″ x 27″, elegant matte finish heavyweight professional print $25.00 plus $3 US… READ MORE
