Tom's Mad Blog
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
April 19th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The blog TV Series Finale happened upon my and Mark Evanier‘s posts of that gorgeous Jack Davis TV Guide spread, and the blog’s senior editor Trevor Kimball did us one better. The scan we linked to wasn’t the best of that image (and according to them was even missing a page!), so he dragged out his collected copy and did a proper scan of the entire illustration. Click on the image above for a much better look at this gem. Thanks Trevor! Also, visit Trevor’s post to see some additional black and white illustrations Jack did in the same issue. READ MORE
April 19th, 2010 | Posted in General
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ao63n5QkEE[/youtube] Jack Davis is not only an alum of the University of Georgia, but he’s been drawing the Georgia “Bulldawg” for them for a long, long time. The above video is from the university’s Bulldawg Illustrated, which no doubt has been frequently illustrated by Jack. The video is a gem not just because they talk with Jack, but it shows him banging out a drawing of the Bulldawg at his drawing table overlooking the river. Check out the way he holds his pencil! We are also treated to seeing him ink with a brush and do a quick color wash job on it. Great thanks… READ MORE
April 18th, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: How can one produce a caricature of someone that exaggerates their features without insulting them?¬¨‚Ć Various sites I’ve seen, including yours, exhibits a lot of great likenesses that don’t look offensive (since they’re not of me) so how can I assure myself the “subject” will have as much fun as all of us? A: The only 100% correct answer to that question (at least the second part) is “you can’t.” The old adage “you can’t please all of the people all of the time” is definitely in play when it comes to drawing caricatures, especially where live caricature is concerned. I have seen the… READ MORE
April 17th, 2010 | Posted in General
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9VwkStu0n8[/youtube] Looks like Jeremy is going to be doing a bunch of these hilarious spoofs of the goofy how-to videos you see all over the internet. Check out his YouTube channel for all the fun. READ MORE
April 17th, 2010 | Posted in Surf's Up Dept.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTLk3DWT2-0[/youtube] If you have ever run across some of the incredibly inane videos on YouTube offering “expert” advice on stuff like drawing caricatures, then you will be laughing until the tears are running down your cheeks over the video above. Don’t get me wrong, there are many useful and good video tutorials and resources on YouTube and about the web, but so many of them are useless and contain no real information whatsoever. Witness these incredibly lame caricature instructional videos I blogged about some time ago from the so-called “Expert Village”. Not only does the lady doing the instruction not tell you a single piece… READ MORE
