Tom's Mad Blog
July 30th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Comic-Con 2010 is “in the books” as they say and it was it’s usual exhausting but fun time. This year I did a lot of new things including being on a panel about MAD and the new cartoon show and participating as a guest artist in “Quick Draw” with regulars Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Scott Shaw! and host Mark Evanier. There was a lot of interest in the MAD show on Cartoon Network, premiering on Sept. 6th and featuring some of my artwork. Here is an interview with producer Peter Giradi and head writer and producer. Kevin Shinick… you will spot me once or twice at the… READ MORE
July 29th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This letter is making the rounds on the interwebby, so… I first send my work to MAD back in about 1990 and got a rejection letter at that time, but this is not it. As I recall it was in the form of a checklist that had different reasons for the rejection, and it had the same sort of irreverent humor. Sorry now I didn’t save that… it would have been fun to frame up in the studio. READ MORE
July 28th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is of comedienne Stephanie Coutney AKA the goofy but still oddly attractive Flo from the Progressive commercials. READ MORE
July 27th, 2010 | Posted in General
I’m afraid my Comic Con wrap-up will have to wait until Thursday… as usual any time away from the studio comes at a heavy price. READ MORE
July 26th, 2010 | Posted in General
..jiggety jig. Flying back home from Comic-Con today… full wrap up tomorrow hopefully with lots of pictures. READ MORE
July 25th, 2010 | Posted in General
Picture by Tom Racine We are going to dispense with the Sunday Mailbag this week in order to continue with our annoying coverage of San Diego Comic-Con. Yesterday was a busy day for me here, starting with the Mad About MAD panel at 10:00 am and then signings at both the DC Comics booth and the Warner Bros booth with fellow MAD men Sam Viviano and John Ficarra, and MAD animated show writer and producer Kevin Shinick, plus a surprise appearance on at the Quick Draw! program in between. I wish I had some pictures of the panel but unfortunately I do not. Tom Racine… READ MORE
July 23rd, 2010 | Posted in General
Day one at Comic-Con? Uneventful. Actually for once the crush of humanity was not that horrific and it was relatively easy to walk about the exhibitor floor. I did a little of that, but mainly stuck by both the DC booth for my signing and the National Cartoonists Society booth where I did caricatures and had some MAD originals for sale. The NCS booth is located at booth spaces 1307 and 1309: The NCS booth is pretty well done, IMO. Nice location, too. I’ll be there from 2:00 to about 3:30 today doing caricatures, sketches and selling those MAD pages. I’ll also be at the… READ MORE
July 22nd, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Well, here I am in beautiful and sunny clammy and rainy San Diego for Comic-Con 2010. The weather is suppose to improve as soon as this afternoon, but it looks like I might get wet on the way to the convention center this morning. I’ll be blogging from the convention floor and you have my promise: No “BIFF!” “POW!” or other sound effects will be lazily used in any headlines or posts. I’m not sure exactly why I ever go to comic book conventions. As I have written here before, MAD is sort of the red headed stepchild of comics… yes, it’s got plenty of… READ MORE
