Tom's Mad Blog
August 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Surf's Up Dept.
From WickedCoolStuff.com comes some awesome Monty Python and the Holy Grail goodies: The Black Knight backpack! The cow (and other farm animals) catapult! A complete horse action figure!! If none of these items make you instantly laugh out loud go immediately to your local movie rental store or your Netflix cue and rent “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, sit down and watch this hilarious film, then come back. READ MORE
August 21st, 2009 | Posted in News
The Jaques Art Center in Aitkin, MN will be having an exhibit of original cartoon art by “nationally known cartoonists, comic artists, illustrators and animators” starting one week from today, August 28th and running through October 3rd. Show organizer and cartoonist Duane Barnhart dropped by the studio last night to pick up several pieces of mine for the show, including a few original pages from MAD and other stuff. It sounds like a great exhibit with a lot of different work in it… I know that he has gotten originals from resident Minnesota cartoonists like Dan Jurgens (Superman, etc.), Jerry Van Amerongen (Ballard Street) and… READ MORE
August 20th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The International Society of Caricature Artists (ISCA, formerly known as the NCN) 2009 Annual Caricature Convention and Competition is fast approaching on November 2nd-7th in Sandusky, Ohio. If you are a caricaturist either doing the live thing or for publication and have never attended one of these events, you are missing something special. There are some unique things about this year’s convention that makes it a perfect time for non-ISCA members to attend to see what it’s all about. First off, there is not one, not two, not three but FOUR guest speakers, all from MAD Magazine: Sam Viviano– Longtime MAD artist and current art… READ MORE
August 19th, 2009 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
A little something different this week… an inked sketch of a cartoon bodybuilder doing a deadlift I am working up for my trainer, Ryan Branson and his personal training business for t-shirts, etc. Needs to be line art only. READ MORE
August 18th, 2009 | Posted in General
Yet another time lapse video from my old 1993 “demo reel” of live caricatures. This time the subject is Albert Einstein… a sample I actually still use at the parks but usually in black and white. By the way I stole that T-shirt slogan gag from Steve Fasen in 1985. 🙂 READ MORE
August 17th, 2009 | Posted in General
I spent a sweltering Saturday drawing live caricatures at my theme park operation at Six Flags New England. Here is a smattering of some of the ones I did. The pictures are never the best, and these are true live ones done at the park that I spend the appropriate short amount of time on : These last two are two of my caricaturists, Bill Breneisen and Guerlins Ellsyee. I took a little more time doing these but they are probably still about 15-18 minutes tops: Bill’s getting married in a week… READ MORE
August 16th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Q: Now that MAD has gone to quarterly, how much has that affected your freelance workload? A: While I have many other clients sadly there is no question that without the MAD work I am far less busy than I used to be when they were 12 issues a year. For example, I was notified about the move to quarterly in February while I was working on the art for the “Watchmen” parody. At that same time the previous year (2008) I was doing the art for MAD‘s parody of “Heroes”. At this point of the year (mid August) in 2008 after finishing “Heroes” I… READ MORE
August 15th, 2009 | Posted in General
I’m currently in Agawam, Massachusetts visiting my theme park operation at Six Flags New England, where I am actually scheduled to spend today drawing caricatures. If I have a chance I’ll take some pictures of some of the drawings. READ MORE
