Tom's Mad Blog
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
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
