Tom's Mad Blog
November 7th, 2011 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Clicky to Embiggen… Currently on the drawing board: MAD Job– for #513. Acutally just wrapped that up today. Something for the MAD 20. Workplace posters- Not one, not two, but three of these all at once! Speaking of these jobs, artwork above was for a recent one. Jeff Dunhan Illustration- Something you should be seeing on T-Shirts and merchandise from Jeff soon… rush job. That’s actually it right now. Kind of quiet on the drawing board all of a sudden… READ MORE
November 6th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I know you do a lot of different kinds of humorous illustration, but you are primarily known for doing caricatures. What first got you interested in drawing caricatures? Was it something you started doing as a kid, or did you discover it later? A: I started typing out an answer to this one, then realized that the following excerpt from the preface of my book said it better, and I’d already written it!… From The Mad Art of Caricature!: When I was a young man, drawing caricatures for a living never struck me as something I was interested in doing. I never opened a… READ MORE
November 4th, 2011 | Posted in News
Photo by David Folkman via NewsfromME.com Back on Oct. 29th, The Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) had their annual gala dinner where they honor someone from the comic art world… this year’s honoree was the indefatigable and unfoldable Al Jaffee. I was not there to attend (gotta make it to one of those one of these days), so go to Mark Evanier‘s excellent blog to read all about it. READ MORE
November 3rd, 2011 | Posted in News
Art by John Martz It’s that time of year again! Time for all your college students interested in cartooning to send in your submissions for the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship! : Jay Kennedy Scholarship The annual Jay Kennedy Scholarship, in memory of the late King Features editor, was funded by an initial $100,000 grant from the Hearst Foundation/King Features Syndicate and additional generous donations from Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman, Patrick McDonnell and many other prominent cartoonists. Submissions are adjudicated by a panel of top cartoonists and an award is given to the best college cartoonist. The recipient is feted at the annual NCS Reuben Awards… READ MORE
November 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Getting caught up on posts… been busy. This week’s SotW subject is local Minnesota embarrassment Kris Kardashian Humphries. Humphries grew up in the Hopkins area and played college basketball at the University of Minnesota. He quit after his freshman year and went pro, where he has enjoyed a thoroughly mediocre career so far. I hope he enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame (okay, 72 days) being married to Kim Kardashian, as he will forever be more famous for that than for playing basketball. READ MORE
November 1st, 2011 | Posted in News
It’s November, and it looks like I am the featured “Drawing Board of the Month” at The Cartoonist Studio website… they must be running out of real cartoonists to feature. The Cartoonist Studio is a fun website designed to connect cartoonists with their fans online, showing interested readers a glimpse at the artists, their work spaces, their processes, and more. They also sell stuff, have auctions of original work, and last year conducted a “So You Wanna Be a Cartoonist” contest where the winner received a development deal from Creators Syndicate. Looks like they will be doing the same again this year, with Universal Uclick… READ MORE
October 31st, 2011 | Posted in General
I thought about making this a Sunday Mailbag question, but thought it deserved it’s own post since it deals with some pertinent issues on the changing dynamics of today’s publishing world. I have received not a few queries from readers of The MAD Blog, friends and colleagues asking me why I went the self-publishing route instead of shopping the book about to established publishers. A few went so far as to hint I was being hypocritical insofar as they say I have showed some level of disdain for self-publishing in the past. Let me address that last point first. I am not sure where I… READ MORE
October 30th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q. You may have covered this already but when drawing clothes, do you look for real examples in perhaps magazines to see how a material would crease in certain positions. Or do you just imagine in your head how it would look? So basically my question is, Tom, how do you draw clothing so well!? A: I’m not sure I would agree that I draw clothes all that well, but thanks for the kind words. I do think I have improved quite a bit in the last few years on how I draw clothes, particularly simplifying the folds and such so they don’t look overwrought… READ MORE
