Tom's Mad Blog
April 25th, 2013 | Posted in News
The National Cartoonists Society Foundation announced the 2013 recipient of the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship today. From the NCSF website: 2013 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship Winner April 23rd, 2013 The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) is happy to announce the winner of the 2013 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship – Charlotte Mao. Charlotte is an illustration major at Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota FL. She was chosen from over 65 applicants for the award, which includes a $5,000 scholarship and a trip to the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award weekend in Pittsburgh in May. The scholarship applicants submitted eight examples of their work… READ MORE
April 24th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week our subject is the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison. Worry not, Whovians… I will eventually get to David Tennant, so stop asking. READ MORE
April 23rd, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops, on the iPad, in subscribers mailboxes and on news stands everywhere today: MAD # 521 (June 2013) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Rick Tulka, Jeff Kruse, Anton Emdin, Bob Staake, Brian Gordon, Matt Lassen, John Kerschbaum, Tom Bunk, Darren Johnson, David DeGrand, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Paul Gilligan, Phil McAndrew) Game of Groans (Desmond Devlin, Hermann Mejia) A MAD Look at Baseball (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Colors: Tom Luth) Planet TAD!!!!! (Tim Carvell) Overheard in Doggie Heaven (Jeff Kruse, Paul Coker) The All-American Fun N’ Gun Show (Frank Santopadre, Scott Bricher) The Darker Side of the Lighter Side of… (Dave Berg) Stuff-E-Vest… READ MORE
April 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness isn’t actually from a piece I did in MAD but one from the now-defunct MAD Kids. Some people questioned why a magazine that was supposedly already aimed at kids would do a “Kids” version as well. MAD itself is not aimed at kids…it’s not aimed at any demographic, really. That said, if I was forced to name a demographic I’d say 13-17 years-olds, with plenty of stuff thrown in for both adults and younger kids as well. MAD Kids was squarely for the 8-12 year old set, in the same mould as Nickelodeon magazine used to be. It was a fun… READ MORE
April 21st, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: After reading about your fourth printing of the book (congratulations!) I was wondering if you could dispense any advice about self-publishing art books and how to do it successfully. What’s the secret? A: I appreciate the thought but I am hardly an expert in self publishing. I’ve only done one book, and some very unique circumstances came together to make that book work out pretty well. I’d be happy to share what I have learned along the way, but the formula that worked for my book is very specific. First off, there’s a post I wrote some time ago about why I self-published the… READ MORE
April 19th, 2013 | Posted in News
The National Cartoonists Society will be holding its annual Reuben Award Weekend on May 24th-26th in Pittsburgh, PA, and part of the festivities includes a public cartoon event on Sunday. The Toonseum and the NCS Foundation, along with several local sponsors, are putting on a special public event to raise money for a worthwhile cause on Sunday, May 26th in the 900 block of¬¨‚Ć Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh. Here is the official press release: First Annual Pittsburgh Comic Arts Festival! Pittsburgh, PA-Hundreds of cartoonists are descending on downtown Pittsburgh as the city plays host to the National Cartoonists Society Conference. It is the first… READ MORE
April 18th, 2013 | Posted in Freelancing
Clicky to Embiggen… Last week in the Sunday mailbag I promised to post about a recent job I completed that reminded me (again) of why I turn down most jobs that involve doing caricatures of the actual client, or their employees. See that post for the reasons why, but here are the gory details of the job that resulted in the final art above (I have changed the names to protect the guilty): I get a call from a company that works in the film industry that wanted me to do a parody/homage of the classic Animal House movie poster, only with caricatures of their… READ MORE
April 17th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We continue with our series of caricatures from Doctor Who? with the 4th doctor, Tom Baker. I was told by a few Whovians that the appropriate expression for Baker’s doctor should be a giant, goofy grin, but I like some of his bemused expressions better. READ MORE
