Tom's Mad Blog
June 21st, 2011 | Posted in News
The book proceeds apace, but it’s slow going as I keep having to put it aside to work on jobs. In fact, plans to have the printed copies ready to go at the San Diego Comic Con are now nixed, which sucks. No helping it, though. It makes no sense for me to turn down paying jobs in order to finish it, because the book will get done eventually and I won’t sell any fewer copies if it ships in August rather than July. Bills continue to be due. My theme park crews are getting mad at me as they haven’t seen me in weeks.… READ MORE
June 20th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
On news stands tomorrow and in comic book shops today: MAD # 510 (August 2011) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Jeff Kruse, Rick Tulka, J.C. Duffy, David DeGrand, Sam Viviano, Michael Grinspan, Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer, Anton Emdin, Scott Nickel, Scott Maiko, Kiernan P. Schmidt, Paul Coker) Olbermann: The Terminated (Artist: Roberto Parada) Green Lunkhead (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) When Ventriloquists Go Bad (John Caldwell) A MAD Look At Celebrity Life (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Tom Luth) Glenn Beck: Terminated, Too- Misjudgment Day (Artist: Richard Williams) Bored Bath & Be Gone (Jeff Kruse, Scott Bricher) How Does Capt. America Stack Up Against other Legendary… READ MORE
June 19th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I read on your blog that you just became the president of the National Cartoonists Society. What is the National Cartoonists Society? Assuming it’s a group of cartoonists, how do I join up? A: The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists. It got its start back in the early 1940’s, when several cartoonists did a series of “chalk talks” for service men and women during World War II. In 1946, the NCS was officially formed at a dinner event, with Rube Goldberg as its first president, Russell Patterson as vice president, C.D. Russell as secretary and Milton Caniff as treasurer.… READ MORE
June 18th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Yesterday MAD‘s new blog, The Idiotical, posted the splash page I did from the parody of Green Lantern in MAD #510: Click for a closer look Interestingly, they also posted the rough pencil sketch I initially sent them to approve: Click for a closer look As you can see, the “finger” gag got nixed. I didn’t think that would make it by the editors, but you can’t blame a guy for trying . . . just looking to be a little edgier. Here are a couple of other panels from the parody: t I’ll post the table of contents if I ever get a copy… READ MORE
June 17th, 2011 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Sport Illustrated Kids has quickly become one of my regular clients, much to my delight. That publication was always one of those I’d wanted to do work for, and after doing a project for them back in March I am already working on my third job for the magazine. The current issue just came out with some art I did for an article on funny “trophy mishaps”, infamous stories about how various sports trophies have been dropped, broken or in one case run over by a bus. Here are a few of the spot illustrations I did for the article: The Real Madrid team drops… READ MORE
June 16th, 2011 | Posted in General
From The Life Magazine 2011 Photo Blog Award Winners: MAD magazine has been called revolutionary, subversive, surreal, hilarious, and a total waste of time. (The latter by its own editors). That a single publication could fill all of those roles for millions of readers, and thrive, across six decades says a lot about both the human appetite for satire and the unique vision of MAD‘s founder, William Gaines. Here, on the occasion of MAD launching its first-ever blog, Theidiotical.com, MAD‘s editor for the past 25 years, John Ficarra, shares some personal photographs of — and lively stories about — Bill Gaines; the magazine’s happily chaotic… READ MORE
June 15th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s subject is karma victim LeBron James. I’m not a guy who wishes ill will on anybody, but I must say I was happy to see Dallas win the NBA championship rather than have to hear about this jackass getting a ring. James is the poster boy for super-egotistical, narcissistic, spoiled brat athletes. I have to laugh out loud when I read comments by him and his (small) group of supporters wondering why all the hate and saying he doesn’t deserve it. He deserves it. Every bit of it. His one hour TV special “The Decision” (note the caps in the title, like the… READ MORE
June 14th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I knew this set was on the way, now it’s officially announced and available for pre-order. The complete collection of Al Jaffee fold-ins from 1964 through 2010. He’s still going strong, so it’s already missing the latest 2011 fold-ins, but would you rather wait until Al kicks the bucket?? He’s probably going to outlive me, so I’m excited about the books! READ MORE
