Tom's Mad Blog
June 11th, 2010 | Posted in General
Over on the WashingtonPost.com’s terrific cartooning and comic’s blog Comic Riffs, Michael Cavna writes an open letter to “Amercia’s Documentarian” Ken Burns suggesting he film a documentary about cartooning in Amercia… and the sooner the better for several reasons: First, the state of the American cartoon is in such tremendous flux: Staff political cartoonists have been disappearing from the newsroom landscape quite precipitously in recent years, as the American newsroom itself has been remade for deeply transitional times. The American newspaper comic strip, to put it simply, is seeing great change in terms of syndication and online delivery. The New Yorker is a bastion for… READ MORE
June 10th, 2010 | Posted in General
For the last few NCS Reubens the awards program has kicked off with a short video… often featuring Jeff Keane (The Family Circus) in drag. This year featured not one, not two but THREE videos. The first features Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Jeff Keane (The Family Circus and current NCS President), Jerry Scott (Baby Blues, Zits), Bill Hinds (Tank McNamara, Cleats), Mark Tatulli (Lio, Heart of the City), Sean Parkes (humorous illustrator) and Tom Gammill (screenwriter and The Doozies): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlUXVPjyEgA[/youtube] The second is a video by the incomparable Tom Gammill, detailing his quest to find a good seat at the Reuben dinner. It also… READ MORE
June 9th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is a quick study of teen star Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana. I did this last week in my sketchbook as a prelude to one I did of her for a recent job. READ MORE
June 8th, 2010 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Click image for a closer look… Here’s what’s cooking on the drawing board right now: Workplace Poster Illustration– My usual monthly assignment. As promised the final of the last poster in posted above. Movie Poster– This keeps getting put on hold but I should be finishing it up this week. It’s a poster for a documentary film by the director of Super Capers, the movie I did some animated illustration for. I also did several character designs for some CGI animated segments in the film and storyboarded those scenes. Animated TV Show Pilot– A political humor show I am doing more character designs for and… READ MORE
June 7th, 2010 | Posted in News
High-resolution images of the stamps are available for media use only by emailing mark.r.saunders@usps.gov From the US Postal Service: “Sunday Funnies’ Comic Strips Get Stamp of Approval What: First-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony of the Sunday Funnies 44-cent Commemorative First-Class stamps. The event is free and open to the public. When: 10:30 a.m., Friday, July 16, 2010 Where: The Ohio State University Performance Hall at the Ohio Union 1739 High Street Columbus, OH 43210-1393 Who: Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee Curator and professor The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Lucy Shelton Caswell USPS President, Mailing and Shipping Services Robert F. Bernstock… READ MORE
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
