Tom's Mad Blog
April 25th, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Just wondering… can a famous person take legal action against a caricature artist for using their likeness or name? I would like to post some caricature work on my blog, but I don’t know if someone could come after me legally for it. Have you ever had problems? A: Great question, and one that I get a lot. A few years ago a college of mine in California got a call from Jay Leno‘s people because he was using a caricature of Leno in his L.A. yellow pages ad. He was asked not to do that, and although I believe he had the legal… READ MORE
April 24th, 2010 | Posted in General
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnkacdjEOkQ[/youtube] I’ve blogged now and again about the unethical practices of some (that’s SOME, not ALL) street caricature artists who steal the work of others from books or the Internet and display them as if they were their own. I’d like that practice to go away, but I certainly wouldn’t want to see this happen: New York Seeks Limits on Art Vendors in Parks According to the linked article from the New York Times, NYC’s Park and Recreations Dept. has proposed to limit the “number of vendors allowed in parts of Central Park and all of Union Square Park, Battery Park and the High Line… READ MORE
April 23rd, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The above image is the official teaser for the new animated MAD show coming this fall to the Cartoon Network (image courtesy D.C. Universe: The Source) READ MORE
April 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Surf's Up Dept.
iTop iTen Dept. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH4yCmc9OkE[/youtube] I don’t watch late night TV anymore but when I did I was a Letterman guy, and this top ten list is pretty funny. It’s the top ten excuses from the guy who lost the prototype next gen iPhone in a California bar last week. READ MORE
April 23rd, 2010 | Posted in It's All Geek to Me!
If you’ve happened to visit this blog in the last few days on an iPhone, Android or other mobile device you (hopefully) will have noticed a different look on your hand-held surfing machine courtesy of a great plug-in called WPtouch. The MAD Blog uses the excellent WordPress blog software, and this plug in automatically formats the blog with a quick loading and easy to use mobile theme when it detects the visitor is using an Apple iPod Touch, iPhone, Goodle Android, Palm Pre or other touch- based mobiles. There are configurable options but it works great right after loading and activation. It cuts down on… READ MORE
April 22nd, 2010 | Posted in General
Back a few months ago I wrote a post about a brightening future for MAD, citing that I knew about a few endeavors on the horizon that boded well for introducing MAD to a whole new audience, but couldn’t talk about quite yet. Yesterday’s announcement of a new MAD animated series on the Cartoon Network was one of the things I was referring to. I can’t say more because the details about the production of the show and how it will incorporate MAD features is still confidential. Regardless the announcement is great news for MAD. I’ll share more as I am allowed. Here is the… READ MORE
April 21st, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We continue our ink wash caricature sketches of the characters from the TV show “LOST” with the brooding Josh Holloway, who plays James “Sawyer” Ford. Josh is one of only two actors from the show I have ever met. You can read the entire story of the meeting here, but the short version is that I got him to sign a print of my splash page from the LOST parody in MAD, and he was genuinely thrilled to have been drawn in MAD. He asked how he could get hold of a print like the one I had, and complimented me on the artwork. I… READ MORE
April 20th, 2010 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Lots of stuff going on right now, including a short but fun MAD piece for #504, more animation storyboards, a movie poster, a special project for a colleague and I’m just wrapping up the illustration for the 2010 National Cartoonist Society Reuben Awards T-shirt. Whew. Here are some goofy images I did recently as part of what will be an animated gag for a TV show promo. Babies, baby… I got a lot of practice doing these at the theme parks: READ MORE
