Tom's Mad Blog
January 16th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I started watching Homeland recently. It’s getting a lot of critical acclaim and it seemed like a show both The Lovely Anna and I could watch together . . . a rare thing since she like crap shows like Glee, Smash and Once Upon a Time whereas I like really awesome shows like Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. Anyway, we are almost through the first season of Homeland and I thought I’d do some caricatures of some of the stars of the show, starting with Damian Lewis. Is it just me or does he look like Steve McQueen? Might be just me. READ MORE
January 15th, 2013 | Posted in Freelancing
That was quick. The secret project I mentioned on Saturday is already out of the bag! Bleedingcool.com posted the news today that DC Comics will be celebrating MAD‘s 60th anniversary with variant covers of some of their main titles including Justice League Of America, Justice League, Batman, Green Arrow, Aquaman, Flash, Wonder Woman, Superman, Supergirl, Detective Comics, Batwoman, Green Lantern and Teen Titans drawn by the Usual Gang of Idiots. Since they specifically name me as well as Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Al Jaffee and Peter Kuper, I guess there is no sense in being coy. If you could go back in time and ask my 8… READ MORE
January 15th, 2013 | Posted in News
Just a reminder we are only about a month away from the third annual Success in the World of Comics Seminar, happening February 16th and 17th in Annapolis, MD. I’m one of several speakers at the event this year. These seminars are organized by Chad Carpenter and Bill Kellogg, the pair behind the wildly successful self-syndicated comic strip Tundra. When it comes to the business of cartooning in the 21st century, when these guys talk, aspiring cartoonists should listen. Here’s a complete lineup of speakers: Chad Carpenter –Creator of Tundra, the most widely self-syndicated strips in papers Bill Kellogg – The marketing guru behind Tundra;… READ MORE
January 14th, 2013 | Posted in General
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January 13th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Any good horror stories about dropping your pen on the page when you’re 99% done with inking a drawing? Any other ‘Oh s*#%t’ moments while working on (important) paid work? A: Most freelancer have one or two of those sort of stories, but I fortunately do not. Only once did I have a piece I was working on ruined so badly I had to start over, and it was when my 2 year old daughter got into my studio and took a marker to a comic book page I was working on back in 1992 or so. My fault for not locking my studio… READ MORE
January 12th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Duct tape can do the impossible As a freelancer you sometimes get a call to do a piece of artwork that is (at least to you personally) so cool that all you want to do is tell everybody . . . but you are sworn to secrecy until it’s either announced or published. Yesterday I got a call about doing a special project that will fulfill one of my absolutely biggest, top-of-the-bucket-list, most long cherished, professional dreams, and I can’t %*&#@ tell anybody! In fairness, it’s probably only a really big deal to me, and I’m achieving it based on a technicality, but what the… READ MORE
January 11th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This documentary examining the 60 plus years of MAD, produced by Alan Bernstein and Doug Gilford and directed by Alan, has been in the works for a couple of years now. As you can see by the video, the list of MAD contributors already interviewed is pretty impressive. They still have a lot they want to do, though. Yesterday the film makers launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds to get the rest of thier interviews done and finish the film. Here’s the pitch: [youtube]http://youtu.be/CoQK93H63_w[/youtube] And here’s more info from their Kickstarter page: I hope they realize their goal and get this made. What… READ MORE
January 10th, 2013 | Posted in News
Apparently the direct order page for my book has been down for a few days . . . I am not sure what happened there but it’s all fixed now. If anyone was trying to order a signed copy of the book, my apologies. Also, the Limited Artist’s Editions are still available but going pretty fast: READ MORE
