Tom's Mad Blog
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
January 10th, 2013 | Posted in News
News started circulating yesterday at the venerable Comics Buyer’s Guide will cease publication as of issue number #1699, March 2013. I heard about it via the excellent blog of excellent writer and excellent guy Mark Evanier . . . by the way his post about CBG and its demise is excellent really worth reading. Very sad to see this happen. CBG used to be THE source of news, views and insider info on the world of comics. But, like so many other sources of industry news, it was impossible for it to compete with the instantaneous and 24/7 content of the interwebby. Back in the… READ MORE
January 9th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I find it very interesting that Psy and neither Tweedle Dee nor Tweedle Dum have ever been seen together at the same time… Coincidence? You be the judge. My thoughts on Psy? As my boy, Number One Son Thomas, so astutely put it after seeing him on the “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” telecast: “Psy needs to go away now.” Well said, son. Well said. READ MORE
