Tom's Mad Blog
September 9th, 2012 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: When drawing a MAD parody, are the artists assigned the project without any say in who appointed the job, or do you get to lobby to work on a specific task that you would love to take part in (i.e. the new Batman movie)? A: The artist has no say in what movie or TV show they get assigned. That is entirely up to the editorial staff. That’s not to say an artist can’t make a case for why they should be strongly considered for a particular movie or TV show, but it rarely makes any difference. When the Tim Burton remake of Planet… READ MORE
September 8th, 2012 | Posted in News
If you are near the St. Louis area, or intend to visit there before the end of the year, you might want to make time to stop by the Sheldon Art Galleries to see the Al Hirschfeld’s Jazz and Broadway Scrapbook exhibit: From the Sheldon Art Galleries website: Al Hirschfeld’s Jazz and Broadway Scrapbook, the first major retrospective of the artist to be mounted in his hometown, will feature more than 100 original drawings, paintings, prints, collages, posters and ephemera from his long and important career, and reveals a heretofore unexplored, lifelong fascination with jazz. In addition to his artwork, the installation will feature his… READ MORE
September 7th, 2012 | Posted in General
The video above aired on CNN several times the last day or so. I am mentioned and briefly shown drawing, followed by a look at the wall of caricatures, for which I am indirectly credited (or blamed). In fact, only a few of the caricatures shown above I actually did (Adrian Grenier, Hill Harper, Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich, Elijah Cummings, Bill Richardson, Jesse Jackson, and a few others). Most of the CNN people were drawn at the Republican National Convention in Tampa by caricaturist Glenn Ferguson, especially the one of Anderson Cooper, which he complains about on the video. I did the one of Dana… READ MORE
September 7th, 2012 | Posted in News
Image courtesy and ©2012 CNN I just wrapped up my week of doing caricatures at the CNN Grill in Charlotte during the Democratic National Convention. Headed back today. Next week I’ll be posting more details about it, hopefully including some pictures sent to me by some of the CNN photographers. I drew a lot of celebrities, politicians and news people. Here’s a small sampling of some of the subjects I drew: Rosario Dawson (pictured) Jay Thomas Richard Schiff Gen. Wesley Clark Rep. Barney Frank- MA Jessica Alba Darell Hammond Wayne Knight Tony Shalhoub Gov. David Paterson- NY Dave Barry Jeff Bridges Rev. Jesse Jackson Gov.… READ MORE
September 6th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The fine folks at MAD Magazine tell me that Bo Confidential, the book I illustrated for them several years ago under a nightmarish deadline, is now available as a digital download through the MAD app on the iPad for the ridiculously exorbitant low price of $1.99 (cheap). There are eventual plans of making it available on other platforms as a regular book download (i.e. the Kindle Fire, Nook color, etc) but no timeframe on that. It is cool that the MAD app is adding things like this to the mix of available content on the iPad. They already have made special issues like the MAD… READ MORE
September 5th, 2012 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Since this week is mostly dedicated to my recent USO trip, here’s an actual drawing I did on the USS Enterprise. Josh was one of the many Navy folks I met and drew, and he was kind enough to make a copy of it and give it to me when I was aboard. It got a little wrinkled on the trip home. Time about 8 minutes, but we chatted for a bit longer. Come home safely, Josh! READ MORE
September 4th, 2012 | Posted in General
I originally had a long post here describing our experience on the recent NCS USO to the middle east, but was asked to significantly modify it because of sensitivity to the presence of the US military in certain locations in the area which shall remain nameless. I’m not quite sure why, since all the information I posted here and much more including, literally, the addresses of the bases and names of the very units and squadrons (if any) posted there are plainly available in Wikipedia and many other places on the internet, but rules is rules. Rather than rewrite the post, I’m just deleting it.… READ MORE
September 3rd, 2012 | Posted in News
18 hours after landing back home from my USO trip, I left again for Charlotte, NC, where I will be drawing caricatures for CNN through Friday at the Democratic National Convention. I have no idea if I will end up on TV or not, but I am bound to be drawing a lot of recognizable folks from politics, media and other forms of celebrity. I will try and post pictures if and when I get a chance to do so. Hopefully no U.S. congress members will realize I’m the guy who did their caricatures for the BobbleRep app. I also hope I won’t have to… READ MORE
