Tom's Mad Blog
July 1st, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
In honor of the sixth season of “Mad Men” just finishing up recently, here are assorted pencil roughs, final pencils, inks, close ups and full pages from the parody of the show from MAD #508, written by Arnie Kogen. Many of these images are in my book, where I break down the entire process of doing a MAD parody with respect to caricature. Clicky to embiggen any of the full pages: The pencil rough with some notes from the book… Close up of final pencil detail Close up of inked detail Close up of final art detail Final art full page Page 3 rough Page… READ MORE
June 30th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: What the hell is Max Korn? Even if you don’t wanna tell do you actually know, or do any of the old timers at MAD actually know.. or do they pretend to? A: Ah… the mystery of “Max Korn”. For those who are not MAD aficionados, the name “Max Korn” began to show up as a sort of “Easter egg” drawn or written into the pages of MAD here and there… I am not sure exactly when it started, but I think sometime in the mid to late 80’s. “Max Korn” is even listed in Urban Dictionary, where the definition says: Max Korn a… READ MORE
June 28th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The digital version of the MAD Superman Special is available for purchase via the MAD iPad app (including a nifty animated version of my cover which justifies all that work I did on the cityscape). What’s more, according to the above announcement within that very downloaded collection of dreck the first 23 issues of MAD are also now available through the app or Comixology. I haven’t actually tried to see if I can download them, but they are either ready to go or obviously on the way soon! fa fa fa! READ MORE
June 27th, 2013 | Posted in General
Well‚ belated birthday. This blog began seven years ago yesterday (I would have posted then, but it was “Sketch o’the Week” Day!). Over 5.7 million page views (best day ever: 22,199 views), 2,570 total posts, over 9,300 comments, 343 Sunday Mailbag questions answered, 344 Sketches o’the Week posted. We laughed. We cried. I procrastinated on freelance jobs. It’s been fun. Thanks for visiting. READ MORE
June 26th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s subject is “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage. I’ve never read any George R.R. Martin books, but I have been watching GoT, and it’s a very entertaining show… although I must admit I am having a hard time remembering all the %$#*^ names of the characters. READ MORE
June 25th, 2013 | Posted in News
The last two years the small but picturesque town of Kenosha, Wis. has been host to a very impressive cartooning event called, appropriately enough, the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning. Kenosha happens to be the hometown of cartoonist John Hambrock (The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee), and his wife Anne is the driving force behind these terrific events. Previous years (2011 and 2012) featured stellar speaker lineups including the afore mentioned John Hambrock, Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), Greg Cravens (The Buckets, Hubris!), Norm Feuti (Retail, Gil), Michael Jantze (The Norm, Jantze Studios), Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Hilary Price (Rhymes with Orange), Between Friends creator Sandra… READ MORE
June 24th, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
I thought as long as I revisited two of the three James Gandolfini pieces I did for MAD, I might as well show a little of the other one as well. Here’s the splash and some close-ups/panels from MAD #482’s “America’s Next Top Mobster”, a mash-up of “The Sopranos” and, uh…. well, every crappy “pretending to look for the next top something” reality TV show, written by Desmond Devlin: Clicky to Embiggen… READ MORE
June 23rd, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Do you ever get tired of drawing smiles? You know when you have a lousy day and all there are all big toothy smiles… has there been a day where you were just sick of it? Also, what’s your favourite expression to draw? A: You are obviously referring to drawing live caricatures with this question, so I will answer from that perspective. First, the short answer: no, I don’t get sick of drawing everyone with big, toothy smiles because I don’t draw everyone that way. I draw a caricature of THEM, and the specific smile they give me/have. In some cases I don’t draw… READ MORE
