Tom's Mad Blog
March 11th, 2011 | Posted in News
I got some cool news yesterday, or at least cool if you are a fan of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower series. Although the long series ended some years ago with the publication of The Dark Tower 7: The Dark Tower, there are plenty of holes where King could add to the tale via backstory and adventures alluded to in the existing books. I didn’t really expect him to do that, but it was something I was hoping would happen. Well, it has happened. King just made this announcement yesterday: Dear Constant Readers, At some point, while worrying over the copyedited manuscript of the… READ MORE
March 11th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Yesterday MAD very quietly revamped their website to a new, cleaner and more streamlined design. You can now browse the PDF previews of back issues of MAD and extras like MAD Classics, etc. There are links to the Carto0n Network show and promo videos, “The Untold History of MAD” timeline by Desmond Devlin, a page with downloadable parody posters, and even a collection of the “Idiot of the Issue” feature from the old MAD Classics, which features an interview/bio of members of the Usual Gang of Idiots in PDF form! Nice to see this… yet another sign MAD is not being ignored by the new… READ MORE
March 10th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Last week I posted a link to the MAD Cover Site and author Doug Gilford‘s great contribution to the collection of well wishes for Al Jaffee‘s 90th birthday, in the form of a comprehensive list of his every contribution to MAD from issue 25 until today. That was pretty impressive. It turns out, you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet. Al’s list is part of an ongoing project by Doug to catalog all the Usual Gang of Idiot’s credits in MAD. That’s an ambitious project! He’s even got all of my credits listed: Tom’s MAD list. My credits pale in comparison to many UGOI’s of course, but… READ MORE
March 9th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
A very quick sketch of total nutcase Charlie Sheen. Want conclusive evidence Charlie Sheen is crazy? Forget the drugs, the throwing away of a historically easy and lucrative TV gig, the ranting interviews, the tiger blood and Adonis DNA… you need look no farther than the two porno actresses he’s shacking up with. Of all the multitude of hot porn stars probably willing to move in with him, those two are his idea of “goddesses”? :crazy: READ MORE
March 8th, 2011 | Posted in Freelancing
Desperately trying to finish a six page MAD parody and a magazine cover illustration… stop distracting me. READ MORE
March 7th, 2011 | Posted in Freelancing
Click for a closer look… There are a lot of magazines I’d really like to do work for, but high on that list has always been Sports Illustrated Kids. I was therefore thrilled when I got a call from SI Kid’s art director asking if I was available to do a piece for them. The project was a two page spread featuring caricatures of several pro athletes engaging in the jobs they were quoted as saying they’d like to have if they weren’t professional athletes. The result is the image above, which appears in the March 2011 issue on news stands now. Here’s one of… READ MORE
March 6th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: This is a follow up question to last Sunday’s mailbag (about computer crashes). I fix Macs, and something I hear all the time from photographers is that the glass panel on the iMacs makes it tougher to accurately edit photos. ¬¨‚ĆDo you have that problem as an illustrator?¬¨‚ĆAm surprised to see you’ve gone with an iMac, so I’m wondering if the glare doesn’t bother you, or if you work in a dark room. 🙂 A: I don’t have that problem for two reasons. First, my studio lighting is of the halogen track lighting variety and the fixtures themselves are almost directly above my head.… READ MORE
March 5th, 2011 | Posted in News
Michael Cavna posts about the upcoming Reuben Awards on his excellent blog Comic Riffs, including statements from Cartoonist of the Year nominees Stephen Pastis, Richard Thompson and Glen Keane and some blathering by me about the NCS art I posted yesterday. READ MORE
