Tom's Mad Blog
September 25th, 2009 | Posted in News
Some explanation of the insidious attempts of Google to take over the world (insert Pinky and the Brain music): FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP Orphan Works and the Google Book Settlement / Part I 9.25.09 We’ve been asked for news about the Orphan Works bill. Last June Intellectual Property Watch warned that it would be back during the summer. And on June 11th, Senator Orrin Hatch confirmed his intent to reintroduce the bill. We immediately put out a notice to artists. But summer’s over and we’ve had no further news. So far, so good. Of course Congress has had other priorities: the ongoing financial mess, the… READ MORE
September 24th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Cover art by Yours Truly I got a pleasant surprise in the mailbox yesterday… issue #4 of John Read‘s excellent Stay Tooned! magazine has arrived. This issue is the “MAD” issue featuring profiles of eight different members of “The Usual Gang of Idiots”: Don “Duck” Edwing, Scott Nickel, Sergio Aragon?¬©s, myself, John Kovaleski, Paul Coker, Ted Rall and Jack Davis (listed in order of appearance in the issue). These profiles/interviews are extensive and full of fantastic info and great artwork. It also features an intro article by longtime MAD editor Nick Meglin in which he calls me a bastard… but he means that in the… READ MORE
September 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Looks like I’ll have to cop out this week and post this rough pencil sketch of one of the projects I’m working on for the “sketch o’the week”. Yes, it’s another “workplace poster”. After looking at it again I think I’ll move the man down towards the bottom right just a little bit to better balance the composition. I should be able to share the finished artwork on Friday. READ MORE
September 22nd, 2009 | Posted in General
Being too busy to post on the blog in today’s market is a good thing. READ MORE
September 21st, 2009 | Posted in General
YES! Yet another in a seemingly endless supply of time lapse videos from the infamous 1993 caricature demo reel that played in fine shopping mall caricatures locations the world over… um, in a few different states anyway. This is an earlier caricature I did of Bill Cosby, which I replaced some years later with this much better one: But… enjoy the video anyway. The guy who did the editing selected the music. Personally I would have gone with some generic jazz music with a Cosby drawing, but he went with the twanging country tune for the first bit. Go figure. The second tune selection is… READ MORE
September 20th, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
I get asked some questions a lot, so occasionally I will repost a mailbag question from some time ago that is of that nature. Since we spent this weekend in New York City and saw more Times Square caricaturist thievery, this often asked question seemed appropriate: Q: I recently saw a display for some caricaturists at the Sydney Easter Show that showed the caricature of you done by Mort Drucker. They were using it as a sample of work. I know your work itself is also always being used to promote others (placed on their displays meant to make potential customers think they did it… READ MORE
September 19th, 2009 | Posted in General
The Lovely Anna and I are in New York City this weekend to celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary (actually that’s not officially until Wednesday) and to see the Brendt Toast Gang’s art show featuring the work of a long time and very good friend, Ed Steckley. Ed is a very talented illustrator and cartoonist, as well as being one of the best live caricaturists I have ever seen… and that’s saying something as I have seen some thousands of them. He does a lot of storyboard work for commercials that you have probably seen on TV, as well as publication work including a piece in… READ MORE
September 18th, 2009 | Posted in General
In an odd coincidence just hours before I learned of the passing of Ismael Roldan, I was reminded of his being instrumental in making it possible for me to visit Colombia last summer when Colombian television reporter and personality Cristina Valencia emailed me a link to the above video. The video features her story on the 15 Sal??n Internacional de Historietas y Caricaturas Calicomix 2009 (15th Annual International Exhibition of Cartoons and Caricatures Calicomix 2009) where I was a guest speaker back in June. It’s in spanish of course but my interview section is in English with Spanish subtitles at around minute 4:15. There are… READ MORE
