Tom's Mad Blog
June 9th, 2011 | Posted in General
Author Mark Arnold just released his two volume history of Cracked Magazine, If You’re Cracked You’re Happy! The books detail the history of the magazine from its beginnings in 1958 through its final days of multiple owners, changes and eventual demise. It’s definitely not a softball celebration of the perpetual second-fiddle-to-MAD humor magazine. There are candid interviews with former editors, contributors, and staff where punches are not pulled. There is particular venom directed at those who helmed what was left of the publication when American Media International (publisher of tabloids the National Enquirer, The Weekly World News and other things) acquired it as part of… READ MORE
June 8th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Better late than never… This week’s Sketch o’the Week is the late, great lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury. READ MORE
June 7th, 2011 | Posted in Freelancing
As promised, here is some of the character design work I did on last night’s episode of MAD on the Cartoon Network. The segment was called “The Big Fang Theory” and was a mash-up of Twilight and The Big Bang Theory TV show. It is pretty hard to recognize this art in what ended up on the finished segment… they obviously went in a different direction and only used my designs very loosely, although I did like the more graphic look they came up with: READ MORE
June 6th, 2011 | Posted in News
Today at Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, the company unveiled a new feature for their upcoming iOs 5 mobile operating system called NewsStand: iOS 5 adds NewsStand, which is going to be huge for readers and publishers. Demoed at WWDC today, NewsStand looks just like the iBooks app but this is for Magazines and daily papers. Working a bit like the Kindle magazine system, News Stand will update your Magazines when they are published without any fiddling around by users. Magazines can be read offline, and Apple has apparently signed up a boat load of magazines and newspapers. Emphasis added by me in quote above.… READ MORE
June 6th, 2011 | Posted in News
Warner Bros. Animation and the Cartoon Network just announced the release of Season One, Part One of MAD on DVD. The first 13 episodes will be included on the disc, to be available on September 20th. That should include many segments I worked on including “CSiCarly”, “uGlee”, “Ben Ten Franklin”, “The Batman Family Feud”, “Extreme Home Makeover: Fortress of Solitude Edition” and “Malcolm in Middle Earth”. In other CN MAD news, there will be a new episode on tonight with a segment in it I worked on called “The Big Fang Theory”. I’ll post some of that art tomorrow after the show airs this evening. READ MORE
June 5th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I noticed on MAD‘s website they mention that they don’t want any one submitting ideas to send in movie/TV parodies. I can fully understand this, but I was wondering how does someone eventually break through and get to cover these things? Your second published article in MAD was a TV parody. For writers, do they use the same again and again? A: I’m not a part of MAD‘s editorial staff, so all I can tell you is my personal experience and how I understand it usually works. You have to work your way up to doing things like the movie and TV parodies in… READ MORE
June 4th, 2011 | Posted in General
Bill “Weg” Green and his burglar. Photo: Craig Abraham From the You Can’t Make it Up Department: A burglar broke into the home of an 82 year old man in Heathmont, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, back in January, 2008. The offender got away after pushing aside the homeowner and stealing his grandson’s bike. Little did the crook know that the man he brushed aside was Bill “Weg” Green, a well known sports caricaturist. When police arrived, he drew a caricature of his intruder. 15 minutes later the burglar was picked up for an unrelated crime but quickly identified as the man who had broken… READ MORE
June 3rd, 2011 | Posted in News
…this time on E-Junkies.info. This is a website devoted to ecommerce, small business, self-publishing and creative stuff on the internet. They have an interview with an artist each week… READ MORE
