Tom's Mad Blog
September 2nd, 2011 | Posted in News
Click for a closer look… This week’s book sneak peek is the opening spread of Chapter Five: “Caricaturing the Rest of the Head”. This chapter contains 25 pages and over 70 illustrations. It deals with drawing and caricaturing the other features of the face past the eyes, nose, and mouth that were covered in the previous chapter. Split into two parts, “The Lower Face” discusses the jaw, chin, cheekbones and ears, while “The Upper Head” covers eyebrows, forehead, hair (the much asked about subject), and the general mass of the top half of the head. Book delivery update– Some bad news… the books will now… READ MORE
September 1st, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The gang at MAD just released a new book, INSANELY AWESOME MAD, that is geared toward the viewership of the animated MAD show on the Cartoon Network. There is an interesting selection of work inside, and it makes you get a better idea of what kind of viewers they are getting, or are aiming at appealing to, with the CN show. There are no movie or TV show parodies. You will find several examples of Sergio‘s “A MAD Look at…”, a bunch of Spy Vs. Spys (all classic Antonio Prohias ones, but nicely colored), several Don Martin classics (also colored) as well as many other… READ MORE
August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Getting back to sketches that have nothing to do with the book, here’s a fresh one. Subject: the dreamy Ryan Reynolds. Bizarre sort of reference… looked like he had a mustache. READ MORE
August 30th, 2011 | Posted in General
As promised, here are a few of the designs I did for one of the segments in last night’s episode of MAD on the Cartoon Network: From “Capt. America’s Got Talent”: Originally I did this character with a “shake weight” as part of a gag but it got changed to a spring-based chest exerciser… too much? READ MORE
August 29th, 2011 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Summer draws to a close and the drawing board is heating up. Here’s what I have going right now: Cover Illustration for the UTNE Reader– Kind of like my last cover for them, only different! Spot Illustrations for Cleveland Magazine– Fun little job for the city publication Jeff Dunham work– More illustrations for Jeff. I’m told he will have a TV special soon that reveals some of the stuff I’ve been doing for him (even credits me for it!) and when that airs I will be able to finally show off some of the work I’ve been doing. CG Animated Character Designs– More work for… READ MORE
August 28th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Have you ever been asked to do a job that you weren’t comfortable with for philosophical or ethical reasons? How did you handle it? A: Yes, I have had a few occasions where I have been approached to do some job that I was not comfortable doing. I handled it by politely turning it down. What kind of jobs? Well, I am a pretty open-minded sort of guy, so there isn’t a whole lot of things that would bother me to the point of refusing to do work associated with it. There are shades of definition in everything, but in simplest terms I won’t… READ MORE
August 26th, 2011 | Posted in News
This week I have started getting a few PayPal transaction disputes from people who have ordered the book and are wondering why they haven’t gotten it yet. Huh? I am sure I have been very clear about this- all orders right now for the book are PREORDERS. The printing process is going on right now, as we speak (figuratively), in Korea through Asia Korea Printing, and the bound copies will shortly be shipping to me here in Minnesota. Printing was delayed somewhat by come color/value issues with the proofs, but that has been resolved and I had taken possible technical delays into account when estimating… READ MORE
August 26th, 2011 | Posted in General
Click for a closer look… This Friday’s sneak peek of my upcoming book The Mad Art of Caricature! is the beginning of Chapter 4: Drawing and Caricaturing the Features. This chapter details how to draw and caricatures the main facial features: the eyes, the nose, and the mouth. While it incorporates much of the information found in my online tutorials, this chapter goes into much more detail and includes dozens of additional illustrations . The chapter contains 33 pages and over 90 illustrations! You can preview other chapters here. The book is currently under production in Korea, and will shortly be shipping to my doorstep…immediately… READ MORE
