Tom's Mad Blog
December 1st, 2011 | Posted in Freelancing
Here are a few spot illustrations I did that are appearing in this month’s issue of Seattle Business Magazine in their article on “The Good, The Bad, and the Stupid” in business in 2011: Feeling the heat in the PA Amazon Warehouse… Washington state’s Governor closes the state tourism office to save money. Starbucks new 31-ounce “Trenta”…! Seattle developer Michael Mastro, his wife and her two diamond rings (weighing in at over 40 carats total) go on the lam from their bankruptcy hearings. READ MORE
November 30th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Clicky to Embiggen Since I missed last week’s SotW, this week it’s a two-for-one! In honor of writer extraordinaire Mark Evanier‘s ongoing series “Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy” on his blog, here is my take on the Great Stan and Ollie. These might be the two most caricatured/cartooned film stars in history. READ MORE
November 29th, 2011 | Posted in General
Phase two of the marketing of my book, The Mad Art of Caricature! is on with the listing of the book on Amazon.com. As I discussed in this post, listing the book through on-line retailers like Amazon (and soon Barnes and Noble) brings the book beyond the relatively narrow audience of this blog and offers it to the world-at-large. The trade off is that Amazon takes a whopping 55% of the cover price, and I have to pay to ship the copies to them, so the amount of profit I realize on a sale through them is significantly less than when I sell it directly… READ MORE
November 29th, 2011 | Posted in Freelancing
As promised, here are some of the character art I did for last night’s episode of MAD on the Cartoon Network for the segment “Superhero Millionaire Matchmaker”: Christian Bale Rachel from “Millionaire Matchmaker” Patti from “Millionaire Matchmaker” Robert Downey Jr. Destin from “Millionaire Matchmaker” READ MORE
November 28th, 2011 | Posted in General
Jeff, AJ and me Early in the summer of 2010 I received a call from some gentlemen out in LA who represented world-famous comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham to inquire about my doing some work for him. I was told Jeff was a big fan of MAD Magazine and my work, and wanted to explore the possibility of using some of my artwork for various projects. In the ensuing year and a half, I’ve done quite a bit of work for him, including detailed illustrations of his various characters, some more simplified line-art type work of same, a few things for merchandising/products and some conceptual work on… READ MORE
November 28th, 2011 | Posted in General
Tonight’s episode of MAD on the Cartoon Network will feature a segment I worked on called “Superhero Millionaire Matchmaker”. Check it out at 8:30/7:30 Central time on the CN. I’ll post some of the art I did for it tomorrow. READ MORE
November 27th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Can you share how much time an average project (such as the “workplace posters”) takes you to produce? Does your Cintique make a difference in that timeframe? A: That’s a question I get often and it’s one that is impossible to answer. Each project is different and factors like multiple revisions, complexity of the image and even just “having a bad drawing day” come into play. Specifically, I will say one of those workplace posters take me about 1 1/2 to 2 days to do from sketch to final, although complexity of the scene makes a difference. This one: …took only a long day… READ MORE
November 25th, 2011 | Posted in General
Thinking about ordering a signed copy of The Mad Art of Caricature for Christmas? Better hurry, especially if you are ordering from overseas. We have had a number of horror stories about customs in the destination countries sitting on the package for several weeks before finally clearing it and allowing delivery. In some cases, it has taken as long as 5-6 weeks from shipment to delivery when going overseas… and even just to Canada. There seems to be no rhyme or reason with this… two shipments to same country can vary from delivery in 10 days or so to 5 weeks or longer. Luck of… READ MORE
