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Sketch Week- Bob Dylan

September 24th, 2012 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I am kicking off a week of nothing but sketches with Minnesota native Bob Dylan. This is actually a study for an upcoming job. READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

September 23rd, 2012 | Posted in General

Q: Tom, what factors do you take into account on who (or what) to draw for “The Sketch O’ The Week”. I’ve noticed that you’ll draw someone who’s in a popular movie, or a person that’s currently on the news. What dictates your choice for the SoTW? Is it favoritism towards a celebrity you like? Or maybe someone who you enjoyed sketching out? Insight on this topic would be nice as I’m always entertained by the spontaneous decisions you make every week for the SoTW! A: When I sit down to do the SotW, I usually just grab a current magazine and start paging through… READ MORE

Good and Bad Book News

September 21st, 2012 | Posted in News

The Good News The Mad Art of Caricature is about to go into its third printing! Distribution through Itasca Book Distributors in bookstores and libraries has really risen in the last several months. TMAoC must be on the shelves of more than a few Barnes and Noble stores. Also Amazon sales have been not just consistent but growing. It is usually ranked anywhere from #4 to #15 under “Books > Arts & Photography > Drawing > Cartooning“ and a similar ranking under “Books > Children’s Books > Arts, Crafts & Music > Art > Drawing”. Thus, our third print run is already ordered and due… READ MORE

More on the New Mort Drucker Book

September 20th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Back in August MAD announced the next book in it’s MAD’s Greatest Artists series: this one featuring the incomparable Mort Drucker. Today on their excellent official blog, The Idiotical, MAD gives us some more info on the book, including the release date of Oct. 23rd, and a sneak peek at a few of the pieces that will be inside, all selected by Mort himself, including this beauty of a full-color, pull-out vintage poster that is reprinted for the first time in almost 50 years: No-brainer, gotta have it, pre-ordered already sort of book. READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week

September 19th, 2012 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Here’s another drawing of rocker Dave Navarro, which was the basis of an upcoming spot illustration of him in Penthouse. READ MORE

Latest Workplace Poster Job

September 18th, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing

A couple of weeks ago I posted a pencil sketch of this illustration, promising to post the final soon. Well, here it is: Clicky to Embiggen… Here are the inks: Clicky to Embiggen… I actually did the color on this piece while I was in Charlotte for the DNC, using my portable (sort of) Cintiq 12WX.¬¨‚Ć Far from my best work, but deadlines are deadlines. READ MORE

Humor in a Jugular Vain

September 17th, 2012 | Posted in General

Ah . . . vanity. In a way, it’s the ultimate target of the caricaturist. Nothing falls harder in the face of an accurate but biting caricature than the unrealistic self-perception of a vain subject. Like Anderson Cooper here. At the end of this clip from CNN, he goes on and on about how little he thinks the caricature that artist Glenn Ferguson did at the RNC in Tampa looks like him: Drawing live caricatures, you run up against a few truly vain people, and they never believe a caricature looks like them…even when it’s a dead-on likeness. Everyone else in the world thinks it… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag

September 16th, 2012 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: Hello Tom. Big fan of your work in MAD. My question to you is that your work is easily recognizable. Have you ever felt you were too comfortable in your style and was ever tempted to radically tweak it? A: That depends on your definition of “style”. Some might define style as simply the visual look of someone’s art. That would mean that using a different style would be as simple as using different mediums, or changing the technique used for finishing. Personally, I think “style” is deeper than that. It’s the way an artist sees the world and interprets it through their drawing… READ MORE

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