Tom's Mad Blog
July 7th, 2011 | Posted in News
My official schedule at Comic-Con is slowly coming into focus, but still has a lot of question marks. However this panel was just announced: Thursday, July 22nd: 4:30-5:30 MAD Men… What’s up with America “s most famous humor magazine (that is, if you don’t count Newsweek)? Your genial moderator Mark Evanier quizzes the Usual Gang of Idiots: editor John Ficarra, art director Sam Viviano, writer Dick DeBartolo and artists Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond, and Keith Knight. Room 8 That one will be fun, especially moderated by the insanely busy Mark Evanier, who moderates just under 1,000 panels every Comic-Con. Per day. Otherwise I… READ MORE
July 6th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s SoTW subject is the notoriously hard-to-caricature Tom Hanks. I’m not sure why he is such an elusive subject, but he’s getting easier to draw as he gets older. READ MORE
July 5th, 2011 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Click for a closer look… I’ve been swamped all summer, but have put several projects behind me in the last few weeks including: Sports Illustrated Kids– 2 pager MAD animated show work– Season Two begins Jeff Dunham Illustration Work The above Marlin Co. Poster illustration I have just a few jobs on the board right now: MAD– 6 page parody for #511 Yet another Marlin poster More Jeff Dunham stuff THE BOOK READ MORE
July 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: As a young artist, I try to practice drawing cartoons and caricatures. From your point of view, what are some good famous people to draw to help me improve in all areas of drawing caricatures? Example– (insert famous person here) is good to draw to practice on hair and wrinkles. A: There is no good answer for that because just about any face, celebrity or otherwise, will provide good practice for some feature or other. In fact, the process of looking for a face that you would identify as being good to practice drawing hair, wrinkles or any other aspect of the face is… READ MORE
July 1st, 2011 | Posted in Freelancing
This is the last of the art I did for Season One of the animated MAD show on the Cartoon Network.¬¨‚Ć these appeared on the episode that aired this week in a segment called “Glee-VR”, and the subjects are Jared Padelecki and Jensen Ackles from the TV show Supernatural. I already have one episode for Season Two “in the can” as they say in the business. READ MORE
June 30th, 2011 | Posted in General
In the sheer craziness of what is becoming my summer, I plum forgot to post my annual “Happy Birthday” to The MAD Blog, which turned five years old on the 26th of June. So far we’ve had 1,906 posts (five of which have been these lame “Happy Birthday MAD Blog” posts, so actually only 1,901 posts), 7,658 comments, 251 Sunday Mailbags, 242 Sketches o’the Week, and a 100% score on the “total waste of time” meter.¬¨‚Ć Right now the blog averages about 1.1 million page views a year, a little over 3,000 per day. Thanks for visiting for the last half decade! READ MORE
June 29th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Once again… better late than never. This week’s Sketch o’the Week is Saturday Night Live alum Amy Poehler. READ MORE
June 28th, 2011 | Posted in General
We might be seeing this ugly guy some this week… READ MORE
