Tom's Mad Blog
December 3rd, 2010 | Posted in General
This is just a reminder that there is still plenty of original artwork straight from the pages of MAD available on The Great MAD Art Sale page. A lot of pieces have been snapped up, but many more remain including full parody pages from movies like “Traffic” (Oscar award winner), “Behind Enemy Lines” (Oscar Meyer winner), “The Royal Tennenbaums” (Oscar the Grouch winner) and “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (Oscar Madison winner), as well as TV shows like “Scrubs”, “Entourage”, “Dog the Bounty Hunter”, “the Bernie Mac Show”, “America’s Most Wanted” and “Boston Public”. I’ve been accused by some very well respected pals… READ MORE
December 2nd, 2010 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
I haven’t been able to get caught up since coming back from the USO trip… plenty to do and still a lot ahead. Here’s what’s currently cooking in the studio: Feature Illustrations for Honolulu Magazine– A full page and several spots for an annual year end article. Might be hard to wrap my head around Hawaiian imagery in the midst of Minnesota winter. Column Header illustration for Penthouse– Several spots for a new monthly celebrity column in the magazine MAD TV parody– Just got assigned a 6 page parody of a show that’s been begging for the MAD treatment for a few seasons now. Sorry,… READ MORE
December 1st, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Oops… forgot to post this yesterday. Too busy. This quick warm up sketch is in honor of the passing of one of the all-time great comedic “straight-men”. Leslie Nielson, who passed away a few days ago at age 84, also was one of the greatest “career reinvention” stories in entertainment. Nielson had a long career as a protoypical handsome leading man and was often cast as the serious minded hero in movies and TV. Then in 1980 his turn in the hit parody movie “Airplane” changed his focus from drama to comedy and launched him to greater heights as a deadpan staple in spoof movies… READ MORE
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
