Tom's Mad Blog
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
November 21st, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I’m a caricature artist and looking to make a profit by selling my work online of celebrities. Do I need permission, a contract, or can I just do it blindly? A: I get this question (or variations of it) quite often, so every once and a while I just answer it again for those you may be newer readers and who don’t slog through years of back posts. Standard Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and don’t even play on on TV. This article should not be mistaken for professional legal advice, and anyone with legal concerns over this or similar issues should seek… READ MORE
November 19th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Click to visit Anton’s blog for a look at all his GLEE parody art Anton Emdin is a incredibly talented cartoonist and illustrator from Sydney, Australia who does work for the Aussie version of MAD. I’ve had the pleasure to meet Anton both at the Australian Cartoonists Association’s Stanley Awards last year (where he brought home the Stanley for Best Illustrator, and did so again this year!) and this past year at the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Weekend, where we were both nominated for the award for Magazine Feature/Magazine Illustration (we both lost). A few months ago Anton emailed me to say he’d been assigned… READ MORE
November 18th, 2010 | Posted in News
This was printed up as a USO Autograph Card for giving out on tour Visting FOBs NCS Osama Watch– No sighting. Pastis claiming 65% of any reward if we spot him Originally each group was supposed to visit up to 6 forward operating bases (FOBs) over the three days we were spending in the Kandahar area, but due to the flight snafus we were only scheduled to visit two each. Considering how long it took us to actually GET to Afghanistan it was really too bad our time there was so short that we could’t visit more sites, but co-ordinating and promoting our visits were… READ MORE
November 17th, 2010 | Posted in General
In honor of the premiere of the newest Harry Potter movie this week, here’s a study of Bellatrix herself, Helena Bonham Carter. READ MORE
November 16th, 2010 | Posted in News
The view from one of the few windows in the C-17 Kandahar, Afghanistan One of the things that the U.S. Military and the USO take seriously on these tours is security, so we were not informed of any of our actual destinations until we were ready to depart. Therefore none of us knew until the tour commenced that we were headed to Kandahar, the second largest city in Afghanistan (after Kabul) and the location of the Kandahar Airfielf (KAF) the largest military base in the southern part of the country and second largest in Afghanistan after Bagram. It’s also a NATO base, with 27 nations… READ MORE
