Tom's Mad Blog
June 1st, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This isn’t really a sketch, but I did this ink and watercolor piece as a gift from the rest of the National Cartoonist Society’s board of directors for outgoing NCS president Jeff Keane (The Family Circus). The stuff laying on the floor represents the four different locations Jeff hosted the Reuben Awards in during his two terms as president: New Orleans, Los Angeles, New Jersey and Boston. The other members of the board signed the original and we presented it to him at our board meeting. I understand it’s already on eBay… READ MORE
May 31st, 2011 | Posted in News
David O’Leary and the folks over at Comics Related really scraped the bottom of the barrel and interviewed me for their feature “5 minutes with…” As happens a little too often with me… I was done in only 2 minutes. READ MORE
May 30th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Tom, have you ever drawn any cartoons in a style other than the caricature style you do for ” MAD?” Do you have a “History and Development of Tom Richmond’s Drawing Style?” A: I guess that depends on how you define “style”. One way to define style would be the technique or medium being used on a given piece of art. In that respect, I do have a few different styles I work in. There’s my line and color style that is what I principally use for my work in MAD: Then I have the colored line style, which had a softer and more… READ MORE
May 29th, 2011 | Posted in News
As always, I am preempting the Sunday Mailbag on the day after the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Awards¬¨‚Ć to list the results: Winners are in red: TELEVISION ANIMATION Dave Filoni – Supervising Director / Production Designer, “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Dan Krall – Art Director, “Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated” Scott Wills – Art Director, “Sym-Bionic Titan” FEATURE ANIMATION Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, Directors, “How to Train Your Dragon” Glen Keane, Animation Director, “Tangled” Nicolas Marlet, Character Designer, “How to Train Your Dragon” NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION Sean Kelly Michael McParlane Dave Whamond GAG CARTOONS Bob Eckstein Zachary Kanin Gary McCoy GREETING CARDS Jim Benton Dan Collins Teresa… READ MORE
May 28th, 2011 | Posted in News
Watch my twitter feed for live results of the 2010 NCS Reuben Awards tonight. Link on the my blogroll on the left. READ MORE
May 25th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I’m not sure if you heard about this but apparently there was a royal wedding a week or two ago in England. This week’s subject is the bride, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. READ MORE
May 23rd, 2011 | Posted in News
This weekend is the 65th Annual National Cartoonists Society Reuben Weekend, being held this year in Boston, MA. I am off to the event early on Wednesday to help with some preliminary preparations and some NCS Board stuff, as I have been serving as one of the vice presidents for two years. I am sure it will be a great time as usual. It’s always fun to get together with some of the world’s most talented cartoonists, get to know everybody better, talk a little shop, stammer a bit when running into some cartooning legend I have admired for years, compliment people on the work… READ MORE
May 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: In the illustrations requiring text, such as background signs, posters and the like, do you illustrate them free-hand or use the computer? A: That depends on what feel or context I am looking for. In cartooning, no matter how “hand drawn” a particular computer font might look, it still lacks the warmth and truly hand-drawn charm of lettering done by the artist. If I want that sort of feel, I will do the lettering by hand. For example, I do basically all the “sound effects” lettering in my MAD jobs by hand: A panel from MAD #492’s Ironic Man parody with hand lettering More… READ MORE
