Tom's Mad Blog
March 21st, 2013 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Pretty busy right now with several different projects: MAD book illustration– a super-secret and very fun little job for an upcoming major MAD book. This is still in the early stages but I’ll be working with a writer I’ve never worked with on it, and it will be an original piece for this new MAD book I can’t talk about. Workplace Poster– My usual monthly assignment. Advertising Illustration– This is a really time consuming but interesting project for the back of a film industry publication. It features caricatures of 60 plus people who work for this movie industry company, and it is a spoof of… READ MORE
March 20th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Clicky to embiggen… Have to cop out this week and post this rough sketch of a recent workplace poster job, as I am swamped with several projects right now. I’ll get to that series of “Walking Dead” SotW caricatures starting next week. READ MORE
March 20th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Remember that radio interview I told you about yesterday featuring Drew Friedman, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth, talking about Harvey Kurtzman? Well, turns out they do have it archived and available for listening after it’s original airing. In fact, here it is: READ MORE
March 19th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s a link to a great article on the history of the movie parodies in MAD from Film Comment magazine. There are also on-line side interviews with MAD editor John Ficarra and me. READ MORE
March 19th, 2013 | Posted in News
If you are lucky enough to be in NYC tonight, no doubt you’ll be at the Society of Illustrators at 6:30 PM for the inevitably fantastic panel discussion on the life and work of Harvey Kurtzman with Drew Friedman, Robert Grossman, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth, moderated by Peter Kuper. That is, if you bought a ticket. If you show up and you don’t have a ticket, you’re a schmuck. If you are like me, and stuck in the frozen wastelands of the country, then you can at least get a little taste of the action by listening to Drew, Arnie, and Al on the… READ MORE
March 18th, 2013 | Posted in News
The 2013 Harvey Awards nomination process has begun, and for the first time you can fill out your nomination ballot online.¬¨‚Ć Ballots are due by May 6th. The 26th Annual Harvey Awards will be presented Saturday, September 7th, 2013 as part of the Baltimore Comic-Con. Only work published in the 2012 calendar year is considered eligible. The Harvey Awards recognize excellence in the comic book/graphic novel/cartooning industry, with work nominated and voted on by creative professionals in the comics field. According to the website: The Harvey Awards may be voted on exclusively by comic creators, those who write, draw, ink, color, letter, design, edit or… READ MORE
March 17th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Is it possible to get your book, The Mad Art of Caricature, in Spanish? A: I’ve gotten this question several times asking about getting the book in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, etc. The folks who ask are always so nice so I hate saying this, but I am afraid the answer is no, not as long as it is self published. I have looked into the feasibility of doing a foreign language edition of the book, and what I have found is that¬¨‚ĆI cannot do it myself, simply because the complexity of the endeavor makes it too expensive and unwieldy to do a translation. I… READ MORE
March 16th, 2013 | Posted in General
Crave Onlines gives us an exclusive first look at the brilliant Sergio Aragon?¬©s‘ variant cover for Justice League #19. Love the MAD jammies with Spy Vs. Spy and Flip the bird. That’s the thirteenth and last one to be released! If you are interested, I have created a page with all the variant cover promotional images on them here. READ MORE
