Tom's Mad Blog
February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Last year I participated in a charity fundraiser called “National Doodle Day“, which auctions off drawings and sketches by a host of artists, authors, actors, directors and celebrities each year in May. The proceeds benefit Neurofibromatosis Inc., a “non-profit organization whose mission is to provide services to individuals with Neurofibromatosis (NB) and their families. NB is an unpredictable disease that cases tumors to form on your nerves, sometimes resulting in disfigurement, paralysis, deafness, blindness or cancer.”- From the Doodle Day website. I received my packet for my doodle contribution a week or two ago, and took the liberty to do my “sketch o’the week” directly… READ MORE
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in News
The nominees for the National Cartoonists Society‘s highest honor, The Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year have been released to members for their vote. The nominees are: Stephen Pastis Dan Piraro Richard Thompson Stephen Pastis is the creator of the popular comic strip Pearls Before Swine. Dan Piraro is the mastermind behind the syndicated daily panel cartoon Bizarro, and Richard Thompson writes and draws the syndicated strip Cul de Sac. This is Pastis’s second time on this list, Piraro’s eighth and the first for Thompson. Nominees for the NCS divisional award categories will be announced sometime in March. READ MORE
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in News
A new record for the sale of a comic book was set yesterday when a copy of Action Comics #1 sold for one million dollars. Today thousands of 80 year old men are cursing their dead mothers for throwing out the copy they owned in 1938… I’m still a little pissed about the Star Wars bubble gum card collection my mom tossed in 1980. The issue was sold through Metropolis Collectibles and the ComicConnect.com auction site. The seller was a guy who either paid a lot less for this comic when he bought it (the previous record of a sale of a comic book, also… READ MORE
February 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Freelancing
… with a sudden number of quick deadline jobs. One is using real, live paint! I’ll try and do some scans of various steps on that one just for fun… I don’t often get to haul out the brushes and paints these days. Here is my latest Marlin Co. workplace poster job, I posted the pencil roughs a few days ago: Click for a closer look… Here’s the caption/text that will appear under it: Living a healthy life so that you’ll stay at your peak years from now? Please keep yourself in gear with a healthy diet and as much exercise as your doctor allows.… READ MORE
February 21st, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Q: Love reading the blog and getting a little insight into how caricature and MAD Magazine works. One thing I’ve always wondered: when you’re working on a MAD movie or TV show parody, what do you get from the writer? Is it a script, with just words? Does it include sketches? Are you responsible for all the sight gags, or are some of them laid out for you? Who decides the panel layout and what happens in each panel? A: Everything starts with the writer, but there are a lot of hands involved in a MAD parody before the final results are printed in the… READ MORE
February 20th, 2010 | Posted in General
This is a new video promoting the International Society of Caricature Artists. I have been a member since 1997 and served as president for two years in 1999 and 2000. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1t3HPhCFqY[/youtube] I have written plenty of posts over the last few years extolling the virtues of the ISCA. If you do caricatures in any capacity in your work it is a very worthwhile organization to be a part of. READ MORE
February 19th, 2010 | Posted in General
The announcement of the new executive team at DC Entertainment– Jim Lee and Dan DiDio (Co-Publishers of DC Comics), Geoff Johns (Chief Creative Officer), John Rood (EVP, Sales, Marketing and Business Development) and Patrick Caldon (EVP, Finance and Administration), sure wasn’t just made and then glossed over. Both The Beat and Comic Book Resources have already had some informative interviews with these folks over their new duties, the directions they envision and the future of DC and it’s properties. DC Entertainment is, of course, the owners of MAD Magazine. Naturally those who work for and with MAD want to know what it all means to… READ MORE
February 18th, 2010 | Posted in News
UPDATE: See links at the bottom of this post to recently posted messages from the new DC Comics and DC Entertainment team. Rumors were flying around MAD that a big announcement was coming soon from parent DC Entertainment. It came down this morning: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DC ENTERTAINMENT NAMES EXECUTIVE TEAM Thursday, February 18th, 2010 By David Hyde Jim Lee and Dan DiDio Named Co-Publishers DC Comics Geoff Johns to Serve as Chief Creative Officer John Rood Named EVP, Sales, Marketing and Business Development Patrick Caldon Named EVP, Finance and Administration (February 18, 2010 – New York, NY and Burbank, CA) DC Entertainment, founded in… READ MORE
