Tom's Mad Blog
June 6th, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I live in St. Louis and I used to frequent Union Station quite a bit. I would always make a point to stop at your caricature stand and watch the artist. I was wondering if you may go over the types of materials that you use at your stands? A: For those readers who may not know I own several caricature concession operations in a few different states including at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, MO. I used to own a stand at St. Louis Union Station in downtown St. Louis but sold the business to my manager at the end of 2009.… READ MORE
June 5th, 2010 | Posted in General
It’s a busy day in the Richmond household today as my daughter, The Dramatic Victoria, graduates with honors from Eastview High School. She has taken home many honors during her high school years, including being in the National Honor Society and National German Honor Society, winning the Presidential Academic Award, lettering in academics and choir, selection to Minnesota All-State Choir, superior ratings in vocal music performance, parts in all the fantastic musicals put on by Eastview, selection to the Lake Conference choir and the highly regarded Eastview Chamber Choir. Despite all that she is looking forward to saying goodbye to high school and will be… READ MORE
June 4th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD #504 officially goes on sale on June 15th, but MAD must have released a sneak peek as these pages by the great Sergio Aragon?¬©s popped up on the internet yesterday on various Twilight fan websites: Click for a closer look… Click for a closer look… Surprisingly most of the Twilight fans loved it, judging by the comments I read. I guess they don’t take their beloved books/movies/cult too seriously after all. I have a short piece in #504 that was quite a lot of work to pull off… definitely outside my comfort zone. I’ll share once the issue hits comic book stores, which will… READ MORE
June 3rd, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
An updated tribute from a previous post a few years ago: Today is a sad anniversary. Eighteen years ago today MAD founder and longtime publisher William M. Gaines passed away at the age of 70. Working for MAD is great. The people and staff there really respect the tradition and history of the magazine. However I will always feel that I missed out on something special in that I never met or knew Bill Gaines. I started for MAD about 9 years after Bill’s passing. While MAD has of course continued since his death a chapter of it’s history closed on June 3rd, 1992. In… READ MORE
June 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Click image for a closer look… Yikes. How can my being gone from the studio for one week result in three weeks worth of work to catch up on??? And I even worked on a job the first few days I was in New Jersey for the Reubens… oh well. It’s a good problem to have these days, even if it means life is about to become very complicated. Sadly this means another cop out on the Sketch o’the Week. This week will have to be a rough of a recent job… this being one of those workplace poster illustrations. I’ll post the finishes sometime… READ MORE
June 1st, 2010 | Posted in General
On the way home from New Jersey today with The Lovely Anna from the Reuben Awards. Great time as always, but life must now return to normal… or at least what passes for normal around here. READ MORE
May 31st, 2010 | Posted in General
As usual, the Reuben Awards weekend was a blast thanks to the hard work of NCS President Jeff Keane, awards show coordinator Steve McGarry, emcee Tom Gammill, all the speakers, presenters and many others too numerous to list. It’s great fun getting to hang out with so many of the giants of the cartooning world, but it’s easy for those attendees who’s greatest challenge is dragging themselves out of bed after a late late night to forget how much time, effort and energy go into giving us that time. A huge thanks you to Jeff and everyone who worked so hard to make the weekend… READ MORE
May 30th, 2010 | Posted in News
The 64th annual Reuben Awards from the National Cartoonists Society are history. It was a great evening as usual. Master of Ceremonies Tom Gammill was brilliant and there were two hilarious films that opened the show that were fantastic. Here are the results of the awards and the The Reuben Award for “Cartoonist of the Year”: Dan Piraro TELEVISION ANIMATION Seth McFarlane – “Family Guy” FEATURE ANIMATION Ronnie del Carmen – Storyboard Artist – “Up” NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION Tom Richmond GAG CARTOONS Glenn McCoy GREETING CARDS Debbie Tomassi NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIPS Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman – “Zits” NEWSPAPER PANEL CARTOONS Hilary Price – “Rhymes with… READ MORE
