Tom's Mad Blog
May 2nd, 2013 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Here’s what cooking on the drawing board this week: MAD Project– A very interesting project for an upcoming book. I can’t give away much, but it’s being written by someone who is famous in the movie biz and will be an original part of a MAD collection book due out this fall. Promotional magazine cover/poster image– Repeat client I did an NBA cover image for last year. Workplace poster– My usual monthly assignment. MAD #522– I am supposed to have something in this issue but haven’t been assigned it yet. Kind of quiet on the freelance front right now, although with the Reubens coming up… READ MORE
May 1st, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Our ongoing series of caricature sketches of all the Doctors from Doctor Who continues with the sixth Doctor, Colin Baker. READ MORE
April 30th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The latest in MAD‘s series of “Mad’s Greatest Artists” featuring Dave Berg just became available for pre-order on Amazon. From the Amazon page’s description: Included in this magnificent collection are some of the greatest works from Dave Berg…one of MAD Magazine’s most popular writers/artists. The material will be presented chronologically and interspersed throughout with rough sketches, a rare 1970 interview, an introduction and portrait of Berg by well-known American illustrator Drew Friedman, a “growing up with Dave Berg” essay by his daughter Nancy Berg, newly illustrated versions of classic Berg strips by several noteworthy cartoonists, and much more. I am one of the cartoonists who… READ MORE
April 29th, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
I occasionally get the question “What was the first piece you ever did for MAD“? which is not an easy one to answer. The full story is here, but the quick answer is a feature piece called “MAD‘s Cable TV Viewing Odds”, which I was assigned in June of 2000 but did not actually see print until MAD #406, June 2001. In between my doing that job and it seeing print I did several pieces for the MAD website and five jobs for the magazine including my first two TV/movie parodies. I recently ran across a dusty DVD with some old jobs archived, including that… READ MORE
April 28th, 2013 | Posted in General
Q: After working for my [caricature concession] company for four years, I might be in a position this year where I’ll be in charge of interviewing and hiring, as well as training. So here is my question: When hiring new artists for your theme park concessions, do you have any thoughts on: 1) Weeding out the right person who has enough artistic potential as well as the ability to engage a guest in¬¨‚Ć a pleasing manner while they draw, 2) Any tips and techniques for training these people to become better at engaging the guests? I would definitely like tips or drawing techniques I could… READ MORE
April 26th, 2013 | Posted in News
The fourth printing of The Mad Art of Caricature! arrived today and is back in stock! The book has a ton of extremely positive reviews on Amazon (88 as of this post), but there has been one complaint made by a just a few people…apparently on some copies the binding has come loose and pages have fallen out. I’ve only had a handful of complaints about it out of many thousands sold, so I suspect the problem only affects some copies where perhaps the glue was thin or some other factor weakened the binding on part of the run. That’s not unheard of… in the… READ MORE
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
