Tom's Mad Blog
February 6th, 2012 | Posted in News
Splash of the MAD Watchmen parody- Art by me, words by Des Devlin No one can say that comic book fans aren’t a passionate bunch. There has been so much commentary on DC Entertainment’s announcement of a new series of stories featuring the characters of the beloved Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon‘s classic Watchmen, that I can’t even begin to link to them. Here’s a story on it that made CNN. Much of it is outrage over messing with such an icon part of comic book history as Watchmen. My take: calm down. They are just comics. I actually don’t understand the venom. There is… READ MORE
February 5th, 2012 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: What are some of your favorite drawing tools (e.g. type of pencils, drawing software, etc.) you use? A: I get this question every so often so once I year (or so, actually it’s been since 2009) I do an updated answer. Here is 2012’s version: In the Studio For doing my publication work I use a lot of different tools and materials. While most of what I do these days is digital I do occasionally, when the job calls for it, pull out the old paints and such. Here are the tools I like to use in the studio: Paper and boards- Paper for… READ MORE
February 3rd, 2012 | Posted in News
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwlxTwdyO5M[/youtube] I came across this recently posted unsolicited YouTube review of my book today by Brooklyn caricaturist Elgin “Subway Surfer” Bolling. He has some nice things to say about it. It’s one thing to get positive reviews from general readers, but it’s particularly gratifying to hear from well-established professional caricaturists that, despite long experience doing caricature, they got something from the book as well. Thanks, Elgin! As always, you can order a copy of The Mad Art of Caricature! here. READ MORE
February 2nd, 2012 | Posted in General
Yep… paying the price for my Maui vacation. I can almost still taste those mai tais now… READ MORE
February 1st, 2012 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s SotW subject is Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Michael Peter Balzary aka “Flea“. He wasn’t naked in the picture I drew this from, but as he was known for playing entire concerts naked back in the late 1990’s… thus the Full Monte treatment. READ MORE
January 31st, 2012 | Posted in News
MAD debuted 60 years ago in 1952. It’s success, first as a comic book and then as a magazine (or “slick” as the vernacular of the day went) caused the spawning of imitators… MANY imitators. The longest running of them all was Cracked magazine, which lasted almost 50 years (1958-2007), but the list of less long-lived MAD clones was much longer. Here’s a few off the top of my head: Sick Crazy Plop! Nuts! Not Brand Eccch! Eh! Madhouse From Here to Insanity An upcoming book (to be released in April) from Fantagraphics, The Sincerest Form of Parody, reprints some of the material from the… READ MORE
January 30th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I don’t post often enough about the good stuff being done on MAD’s official blog The Idiotical. The other day they posted their predictions for the 2012 Oscars: Click to visit The Idiotical There are daily updates with combinations of stuff from the magazine (both classic and current), plus a lot of original content. If you don’t regularly visit, you are missing out on some daily chuckles. READ MORE
January 29th, 2012 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I remember about a year ago you wrote a post about the decline in quality of Strathmore bristol boards, a brand you used with your work. Whatever happened with that? Did you find a suitable replacement? Have the Strathmore boards improved? A: Here is the post to which you refer: Strathless Bristol Bored. I contacted Strathmore about my concerns and found their customer service department very receptive to working with me. They were concerned and, while they didn’t come right out and say it, I got the feeling mine was not the first complaint they had received. They asked me to send them some… READ MORE
