Tom's Mad Blog
November 30th, 2010 | Posted in News
As rewarding and fun as my USO trip to Afghanistan with a bunch of other National Cartoonist Society cartoonists was, it happened to come at a time that caused me to miss out on two other cartooning/caricature events. One was the International Society of Caricature Artists‘ annual convention and competition, which happened Nov. 7th-12th in Las Vegas. The other was the Australian Cartoonists Association‘s Stanley Awards weekend, which this year was held in Melbourne. Last year I was one of the guest speakers at the Stanleys, and had an outstanding time meeting a lot of wonderful and talented Aussie cartoonists as well as getting to… READ MORE
November 29th, 2010 | Posted in General
I have a Google alert set up on my computer so I get a daily e-mail with links to any blog posts or web sites that mention “MAD Magazine“. Usually this results in several links a day where someone mentions MAD either in passing as part of some other subject, uses it as an example of satire or parody or says something to the effect of “I used to read MAD as a kid and loved it. Do they still publish MAD?” More and more these days, though, I get links to sites that are hosting illegally scanned copies of MAD, available for equally illegal… READ MORE
November 28th, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: How old do you have to be to read MAD Magazine? A: I could take that question one of two ways… either you are: A parent asking about MAD‘s age appropriate suitability as it pertains to allowing your kids to read the magazine, or A kid asking how old you have to be to read MAD. If it’s the former, then that is an impossible question to answer because all parents have different ideas what is appropriate for their kids. The best I can do is describe what kind of stuff you can expect to find in MAD and let you decide for yourself.… READ MORE
November 25th, 2010 | Posted in General
2008 Cover art for the now-defunct MAD Kids To all my friends and family from the United States, at home or abroad, The Richmonds wish you the happiest of holidays and hope you find yourselves together with your loved ones on this day of thanks. For everyone else… carry on. READ MORE
November 24th, 2010 | Posted in General
It seems that my trying to get fancy using some old fashioned HTML table coding on “The Great MAD Art Sale” page resulted in a lot of browsers (mainly Windows Internet Explorer) having trouble seeing the thumbnails and images… I’ve dispensed with tables coding so everything should be working fine now. My apologies. Despite the technical glitches quite a few of the pieces are already gone or spoken for… thanks for those who have purchased some of this crap… uh… original art from the pages of MAD. Those who are just thinking about buying something… what are you waiting for?? READ MORE
November 24th, 2010 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
This week’s sketch is a quick study of another star of the “Harry Potter” films, Rupert Grint AKA Ron Weasley. It’s remarkable how well these roles were cast 10 years ago when these actors were only little kids. They could easily have grown out of the roles, succumbed to “child actor” scandal syndrome or ended up just plain not fitting in as they grew up, but that didn’t happen. All three really grew into the roles as actors, and even more amazing is they ended up physically matching J.K. Rowling’s descriptions of their characters. Ron is described in the books as much taller than Harry… READ MORE
November 23rd, 2010 | Posted in News
About this time last year I conducted “The Great Art Blowout”, where I sold some 60 or so pieces of artwork I did for various projects at dirt cheap prices just to clean out my flat files in my remodeled studio. That sale went so well I threatened to do it again in 2010. Well, 2010 is almost toast, so I have combed through my overflowing flat files again to bring you another Great Art Blowout… but this time it’s nothing but published artwork from the pages of MAD Magazine! That’s right! This is your opportunity to own an actual piece of artwork from the… READ MORE
November 22nd, 2010 | Posted in General
I usually don’t blog much about sports, but I have to say as a lifelong Green Bay Packers fan yesterday’s merciless beating of Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings, 31-3 at their home stadium was pretty satisfying. File this one under” “You reap what you sow”. Favre went out of his way to give a big F you to Packers fans, GM Ted Thompson and the Green Bay front office by maneuvering his way to one of their chief rivals. A cushy early schedule in 2009 and an amazing run of good luck and good bounces combined with some admittedly great play on his part… READ MORE
