Tom's Mad Blog
June 22nd, 2010 | Posted in General
I get asked that question a lot because there is a perception that I am a fully digital artist because I deliver most of my work digitally. People are sometimes surprised to hear I still draw and ink on bristol board with a dip pen and brush just like cartoonists have been doing it since the dawn of time, and then scan my work in and color it via the computer and a tablet. It seems odd to some that I bother with the traditional media at all, when I could just do it all on the computer and save time, hassles and ink stains… READ MORE
June 21st, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Hard to believe but we are only one month away from the start of San Diego Comic Con. I managed to attend for the first time in a few years last year, and it looks like I’ll make it again this year. I still haven’t figured out how to get a booth space or Artist’s Alley table of my own… at least not before I’m living in a “retirement community” somewhere… so you can find me at the National Cartoonists Society booth a few times during the show as well as a signing at the DC Comics booth. If and when specific times are available… READ MORE
June 20th, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I would think drawing caricatures in a theme park would be stressful simply because many times you have people – often friends or family of whoever is being drawn – looking over your shoulder, watching, and telling the person how much it does or doesn’t look like them. What happens when you realize you’ve started off on the wrong foot? Do you just plow through and try to correct it, or have you ever torn off the sheet, crumpled it up, and said, “OK, let’s try this again”? A: I very seldom ever start over. Likeness in caricature can be achieved in a variety… READ MORE
June 18th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
According to this article on NorthJersey.com, a new documentary on the career of the late, great Will Elder screened at the 2010 Toronto Jewish Film Festival back in April to a “pleasantly surprising” turnout. “The Mad Playboy of Art” takes a look inside the life and career of Will Elder, one of the principal founding artists for MAD Magazine and long time collaborator with Harvey Kurtzman. The film is being made by Elder’s son-in-law Gary VandenBergh. From the article: VandenBergh said that Elder was an artist who set the tone for the visual perspective role at Mad Magazine, a bi-monthly satirical magazine, which began as… READ MORE
June 17th, 2010 | Posted in General
The Huffington Post has an article/slideshow posted on their website called Street Portraits Gone Wrong: The Funniest Caricature Drawings Ever featuring thirteen different examples they found of caricatures that the artist “got wrong”. I know many of the artists who did these drawings. Here are some samples: This one is a Joe Bluhm This is by Dorney Park, PA artist Chris Chua This one is by Chris Rommel See all thirteen and vote on the one with the most “WTF?” on the Huntington Post website. Poor Chris has four different samples in that slideshow. The funny thing is that several of these are terrific caricatures,… READ MORE
June 16th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is a very quick warm-up doodle of actress Brooklyn Decker. I have no idea who Brooklyn Decker is or what shows she’s been in, but I ran across an interesting photo of her in a magazine that was begging to be drawn. READ MORE
June 15th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
My contribution to issue #504 was an expansion of the “Toyota Story” idea by writer Desmond Devlin. Originally I did the spoofed movie poster for the MAD website, so they had me revise the image to open the two additional pages of story. I had to make the car into more of an anthropomorphic character, as well as beat up the Toy Story characters a bit more. Here is the original image: Click for a closer look… And the revised one: Then there followed two pages of “story”, which I also did in a fully painted style… sort of a cross between the actual Pixar… READ MORE
June 14th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
On news stands June 16th and in comic book stores and subscriber mailboxes now! MAD # 504 (August 2010) Cover (Scott Nickel, Mark Frederickson) The Fundalini Pages (Dave Croatto, P.C. Vey, Jacob Lambert, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Tom Bunk, Jeff Kruse, Charles Akin, Darren Johnson, Gary Hallgren, Ryan Pagelow, Sam Viviano, Duck Edwing, Paul Coker, Kiernan P. Schmitt, Bob Staake ) MAD Rates the iPad (John Caldwell) Toyota Story (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) Beiber Versus… (Some Photos via Dreamstime.com) A MAD Look at the Twilight Saga (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Tom Luth) The MAD World of… Lying and Cheating (Stan Sinberg, Marc Hempel) The A-Hole Team (Uncredited)… READ MORE
