Tom's Mad Blog
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
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
