Tom's Mad Blog
April 5th, 2010 | Posted in It's All Geek to Me!
The iPad has been out for all of two days and already we are seeing apps that demonstrate not only how much more this device is than the “bigger iPod Touch” naysayers are dismissing it as, but exactly the kind of content delivery that it and it’s eventual ancestors are going to revolutionize the publication industry with. Take the new Marvel Comics app. It’s a free app that is used as a gateway to the buying of single issues or a series from Marvel. They have both an iPhone version and an iPad version. Comparing the screenshots of two you can instantly see how the… READ MORE
April 4th, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
I’m taking this Sunday off from the usual mailbag question and answer silliness. Happy Easter! READ MORE
April 3rd, 2010 | Posted in General
I opened a new caricature booth at Six Flags in St. Louis yesterday. We just need a few more signs and it’ll be dialed in. READ MORE
April 2nd, 2010 | Posted in General
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/10606990[/vimeo] Cartoonist and Australian Cartoonist Association member Lee Shepard recently uploaded this video of me doing a quick caricature demo at the 2009 Stanley Awards weekend in Sydney, where I was one of several presenters. Unfortunately Lee was sitting with my substantial bulk between his camera and the paper, so you can’t see me drawing much except when I am kneeling down or when I move aside. Sorry about that, Lee. This segment took place after I gave a boring hour long lecture on caricature and the audience was drawing the same faces on the screen as I was during the demo. Two things about… READ MORE
April 1st, 2010 | Posted in General
No place exotic like Colombia, Iraq, Australia or Cuba… just St. Louis MO to help open up our caricature operation for the season at Six Flags. I’m not even flying but driving… however I have no drawing of me driving along with underwear flying out of my car window so i just used the airplane. I’ll upload a postcard from the park! READ MORE
March 31st, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Our Sketch o’the Week series of ink-wash caricatures of the cast of “LOST” continues with this one of Naveen Andrews, who plays the former Iraqi Republican guardsman and interrogator Sayid Jarrah. I was informed by my neighbor Kim, a fellow LOST fanatic, that if my next subject was not Sayid she would have me killed. I live to draw another day. READ MORE
March 30th, 2010 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Not a whole lot on the board right now. That’s a good thing as I have to travel over the next two weeks opening up my theme park operations in Missouri and Massachusetts. I always have to turn down a few jobs at this time of year because of the theme park demands. I just wrapped up a series of storyboards for some animated segments in a movie as well as a few additional character designs for it, and another Marlin Co. poster illustration. Here are the things I am currently working on: 2010 NCS Reubens T-Shirt Art– My annual illustration for the cartoonists weekend… READ MORE
March 29th, 2010 | Posted in General
Artwork by Anton Emdin Those who frequent The MAD Blog know I do not lightly recommend artist’s blogs or websites. There are so many good ones (and so, SO many bad ones) that singling one out is tough to do. However, I have no problem in recommending the spankin’ new blog of Australian cartoonist and illustrator Anton Emdin. Anton sat next to me at the Australian Cartoonist Association’s Stanley Awards: Anton and me down under … where he won a Stanley for Best Illustrator. As it happens he is also one of the nominees for the National Cartoonists Society’s divisional award for best Magazine Illustration/… READ MORE
