Tom's Mad Blog
May 17th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
If you are ever in Washington DC and go to the International Spy Museum on F Street NW, you might see the above illustration on a T-shirt available for purchase . . . if you have the stomach to wear such a thing. I did this for Warner Brothers Consumer Products specifically for the Spy Museum store, and as far as I know it is not for sale anywhere else including their online store. Just for fun here are a few of the other pencil roughs I did that they considered before settling on the trash can one: I’m working on some other WB/MAD related… READ MORE
May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Clicky to embiggen . . . A year or so ago I attempted to take my pal Stephen Silver‘s online animated character design class. Steve is an awesome artist and a great teacher, but I don’t know what I was thinking when I enrolled because in typical fashion I got swamped with work and had to give up on the class. Anyway I was clearing out some old sketches from the flat files today and ran across these from one of the lessons. We were supposed to do a (more or less) realistic character sketch of this model, then do three different takes on his… READ MORE
May 15th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
CBR reports that “Dynamic Forces has announced a partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to create a line of toasters designed to burn iconic images into bread. Much like the popular “Battlestar Galactica” toaster that makes Cylon-ized toast, Dynamic Forces’ line of toasters will brand bread with a special image from various Warner Bros. properties such as “The Wizard of Oz,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Watchmen.”” . . . and also MAD Magazine. Yes, YOU TOO can toast your bread to display the nauseating visage of Alfred E. Neuman (actually I have no idea what MAD image will be burned onto your breakfast,… READ MORE
May 15th, 2012 | Posted in News
Funny and fantastic cartoonist, former NCS president and friend Rick Stromoski is one of many who have joined the growing number of cartoonists entering the wonderful world of eBooks in recent years. He just released a new one: Bad Cats, a feline-centric collection of some of his terrific cartooning. Rick does the syndicated strip Soup to Nutz thorugh Universal Uclick, and is known for his great greeting card and gag cartoon work, as well as book illustration, advertising . . . you name it. I really enjoy his work…he’s a pro’s pro. If you have any cat-lovers with eBook readers in your life, this book… READ MORE
May 14th, 2012 | Posted in General
I almost didn’t have time to post this non-post. Ecccch. READ MORE
May 13th, 2012 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: As a caricaturist how do you avoid the reliance and clich?¬© of using props (as in properties) to bolster the recognition of a person? For example, if you are depicting a not so well known sports personality there maybe a tendency to add sports gear or team logos to the image helping to get the message across. Or say a “celebrity” who is surrounded by their associated paraphernalia, just so you know who that caricature is meant to be; which helps bridge the association of recognition but then destroys it with poor observational drawing. Sorry if this question has answered in your new… READ MORE
May 12th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
From The Idiotical…The Offical Blog of MAD Magazine: READ MORE
May 11th, 2012 | Posted in News
Bring on the lazy, obligatory “Holy (fill in the blank), Batman!” headlines. A near mint copy of Batman #1 sold recently through Heritage Auctions in a private transaction for $850,000. According to this story on CNN.com, this same copy was purchased by a collector three years ago for a mere $315,000. Not a bad return. It was sold to an “investment group” who I am sure are all avid comic book fans. These types of stories have become commonplace lately, as the price of rare and historically-significant (at least historically in the world of pop culture and comic books) comics have skyrocketed in the last… READ MORE
