Tom's Mad Blog
August 14th, 2009 | Posted in News
I’m finally getting around to doing this report on our trip to Pittsburgh and the opening of my show at the Toonseum, located in the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. As someone said to me, it isn’t everyday your husband (or dad) get’s his artwork hung in a museum, so I dragged The Lovely Anna and all four of my kids with me to Pittsburgh to see the show and get to experience a little bit of the city. Cartoonist and Toonseum curator Joe Wos, and Pittsburgh Post Gazette/syndicated editorial cartoonist¬¨‚Ć Rob Rogers were gracious hosts, giving of their time to make sure we were taken… READ MORE
August 13th, 2009 | Posted in News
Videoscope Magazine bills itself as “the Ultimate Genre DVD Guide”. According to it’s website, it “began life as a newsletter but soon morphed into a nationally distributed magazine, a one-stop source for the latest in genre home entertainment coverage.” Each issue contains news and reviews of the latest DVD releases from genres such as Horror, Sci-Fi, Action, Asian, Cult, Camp, Classic, Animation, Thrillers, Indies, Film Noirs, Art-House, Verite, Vintage, Tele-Video, Exploitation, etc. It also contains numerous articles and interviews written by experts of each genre and about the star creators of the movies. The latest issue of Videoscope contains a well written article by David… READ MORE
August 12th, 2009 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s subject is the late First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (later Onassis) drawn from a photo circa 1961. Despite being a beautiful woman she had many great features to play with including very wide set eyes and wide nose bridge, squat face with apple-round cheekbones and a small but strong chin. READ MORE
August 11th, 2009 | Posted in General
Signed with an Alfred sketch! Many thanks to those who purchased signed copies of my new MAD book Bo Confidential. I have shipped all purchased books and they will be arriving shortly! I still have a few dozen left, so anyone who wants one can snap them up here. You can get them with just a signature with or without it being personalized to you, or with a sketch of the “Bo” character or Alfred as pictured above. Considering how quickly I cranked out the art for that book, I am happy with the final results. I wish I’d had even another week to tweak… READ MORE
August 11th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It seems like three months since a new issue of MAD came out! Oh…. wait…. In comic books shops tomorrow and on news stands on Tuesday Aug. 18th: MAD # 501 (October 2009) Cover (Mark Frederickson) The MAD Quarterly Report (Sam Viviano) The Fundalini Pages (Jeff Kruse, Rick Tulka, Kiernan P. Schmitt, Bob Staake, P.C. Vey, Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer, Dave Berg, Scott Nickel, Drw Friedman, Duck Edwing, Jacob Lambert, Al Jaffee, Paul Coker, Tom Cheney, Jim Hunt, Gary Hallgren, Ward Sutton) Michael Jackson Obit (Uncredited) Harry Plodder is a Hot-Blooded Putz (Desmond Devlin, Hermann Mejia) Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper) Bo Confidential Preview… READ MORE
August 10th, 2009 | Posted in News
It’s almost time of the annual Walt Disney Hometown Toonfest in lovely Marcelene, MO. I wrote about the stellar speaker lineup here, but here it is again for those who hate following links: Mark Fiore- Editorial cartoonist¬¨‚Ć Wiley Miller- Creator of the comic strip Non Sequitor David Mowder- Hallmark Cards cartoonist¬¨‚Ć Sam Viviano- MAD Magazine art director Every year they have a wonderful show of original cartoon art, and they are once again calling for professional cartoonists to submit work for the show. Here is the call for art by show curators Paul Fell and Mike Edholm: Dear Fellow Cartoonist: It’s time to start gearing… READ MORE
August 10th, 2009 | Posted in General
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2-Ri74LWhA Above is an hour long PBS video documentary about Los Angeles Times’ editorial cartoonist and terrific caricaturist Paul Conrad. Whether you are a fan of caricature, or of hard hitting and brutally honest editorial cartoons, it’s a great tribute to one of the giants of the cartooning world. You can watch it in a larger format here. Thanks to The Daily Cartoonist for the heads up. READ MORE
August 9th, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I thoroughly enjoy your blog and was wondering if you could shed some light on some of your favorite drawing tools (e.g. type of pencils, drawing software, etc.)? A: I get this question every so often so once I year I do an updated answer. Here is 2009’s version: In the Studio For doing my publication work I use a lot of different tools and materials. While most of what I do these days is digital I do occasionally, when the job calls for it, pull out the old paints and such. Here are the tools I like to use in the studio: Paper… READ MORE
