Tom's Mad Blog
February 2nd, 2010 | Posted in General
Image used with apologies to TUAW for the “enhancements” With all the negative press and the “it’s not that impressive” comments by supposed techie experts I was beginning to think no one was going to grasp some of the potential something like the iPad has for the future of publishing. However yesterday Michael Grothhaus over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog finally put it together with his story “Where’s the iMag Store?” Printed book publishing is not going anywhere, even though eBooks may become more and more popular. People still love bookshelves and a book is not (usually) a one time consumed media. Readers will put… READ MORE
February 1st, 2010 | Posted in Freelancing
Here is a series of spot illustrations I did a few months ago for Penthouse for their February issue. They are illustrating a “timeline” feature similar to the one I did for St. Patrick’s Day about a year ago. This timeline follows a typical guy’s day on Superbowl Sunday. Here are a few of them, pencil roughs and finals: Breakfast of Champions: hot wings Checking out the neighbor’s hot wife! She is… OOOH! NACHOS! Getting pissed at the hipsters The inevitable end of the evening I did a few extra sketches and the editors chose the six they liked the best (only four pictured, you’ll… READ MORE
January 31st, 2010 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: During the last 15 years what caricature or drawing skill have you developed the most? A: All of them. I debated whether to use this question, as that is really the only answer. I don’t know what else to tell you. As an artist, unless you completely focus on only one thing to the exclusion of all else (faces for example), you are going to improve your overall drawing skills with constant work and practice. It’s gratifying to be able to look at work I did 15, 10, 5 or even just a few years ago and see glaring faults that today would never… READ MORE
January 30th, 2010 | Posted in General
Many years ago, immediately following my graduating from college and my marriage to The Lovely Anna, I moved from Minnesota to Georgia to be the manager of a caricature art concession at Six Flags Atlanta. I worked with a lot of different caricature artists during my two years at that Six Flags, but I’d be hard pressed to think of one more gifted than Eddie Pittman. Eddie started with the company I was managing for, Fasen Arts, in my second (and last) year as their Six Flags Atlanta manager, and eventually he worked for me at Underground Atlanta for several years before moving on to… READ MORE
January 29th, 2010 | Posted in General
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Uzvhok6N4 Here’s a little video from our recent visit to Cuba, courtesy of Lex Fajardo, creator of Kid Beowulf, artist/director at the Schulz Studios and one of our group of traveling cartoonists. It’s a short clip of me and one of the Palante! cartoonists drawing one another. Follow this link to read Lex’s thoughts on the trip. You can also listen to another cartoonist from our trip, MythTickle‘s Justin Thompson, talk about the experience on the latest episode of the podcast Comics: Coast to Coast. READ MORE
January 28th, 2010 | Posted in It's All Geek to Me!
Just in case you have been frozen solid and living under a rock- yesterday the eagerly awaited Apple branded tablet device, the iPad, finally was unveiled… to a lot of fanfare and a fair share of catcalls. It has been anticipated as a bold new step for the way people use technology in their daily lives. Will it live up to the hype? I think it has a chance to, but right now there is just not enough software written to take advantage of the hardware. Personally I think once there is a wide selection of software out there that is native to the iPad… READ MORE
January 27th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Sometime today Apple will be releasing their new tablet gizmo, which will either revolutionize the entire world as we know it… or it won’t. Either way our subject for the Sketch o’the Week, Apple ???berCEO Steve Jobs, will doubtless be doing the unveiling… or he won’t. READ MORE
January 26th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This collection of MAD‘s superhero-related spoofs picks up where the first volume left off. It is officially in bookstores now and, of course, available from Amazon. Most of the content in the first volume was classic MAD spoofs from as early as MAD #4’s “Superduperman” on through “Smellville” from MAD #415. Great stuff, but I was depressed as the book came out¬¨‚Ć just after I started doing some superhero movie spoofs and so I missed out on being in it. I definitely made up for it with Volume 2. My “Spider-Sham” parody from #418 opens the book, and other parodies and pieces of mine include… READ MORE
