Tom's Mad Blog
March 7th, 2009 | Posted in Surf's Up Dept.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETv3NURwLc[/youtube] I have seen this video featuring Louis C.K. on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” around for the last two weeks on the web and Facebook and such. It’s so incredibly true that I finally tracked down an embeddable version to post here. It is amazing how incredibly spoiled people are today, especially young people. Many have a misguided sense of entitlement that boggles my mind… it’s like they are owed whatever it is they want, and don’t think they should be required to earn it or earn money to pay for it. The internet is a prime example. Many people seem to think they… READ MORE
March 6th, 2009 | Posted in General
Here’s the trailer for the film… [youtube width=”490″ height=”300″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qob8TFQ3ZK8[/youtube] On March 20th the movie I worked on, “Supercapers”, is going to be shown in select theaters. Having gotten a chance to meet writer/director Ray Griggs last weekend at Wondercon and getting to see the entire film, I am really hoping it will do well enough to get national distribution. It’s silly, fun movie that pays homage to some of the films and directors that shaped Ray’s desires to become a filmmaker like Star Wars, Back to the Future, Etc. It also is a tribute to the superhero genre… and not in the dark, depressed way… READ MORE
March 5th, 2009 | Posted in General
I finally have a few minutes to write further about my experience at WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend. I don’t “do” a lot of comic conventions because MAD is sort of the red headed stepchild of comics and thus I am more of an odd man out than a typical professional guest.¬¨‚Ć Even so I do like to get out and see these events occasionally, mainly because they are a lot of fun and full of cool things to see and people to meet. Sadly, and it seems like AS USUAL, I had a job I needed to work on with a Monday deadline… READ MORE
March 4th, 2009 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
A quick one of late night talk show veteran David Letterman. I confess while I used to watch Letterman a lot I haven’t seen him in years. I don’t watch any late night TV, actually. However I did enjoy this video list of the top ten bizarre Letterman guest appearances from TIME.com, spawned by the recent Joaquin Phoenix debacle. I remember watching the the Crispin Glover one the night it aired. READ MORE
March 3rd, 2009 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
I’m playing catch up already this week, despite my working on and finishing a full page magazine illustration while I was at WonderCon over the weekend. Here’s what’s cooking on the drawing board this week: Library Journal Magazine– Cover illustration due late next week concerning library budgets and how tight they are becoming. MAD– Not one but two jobs for MAD on the board. One is a two pager I did the roughs for last week but that got bumped to issue #501, so that deadline is a long way off now. Now I am one of seven illustrators doing spots for a Frank Jacobs… READ MORE
March 2nd, 2009 | Posted in News
I had a great time at WonderCon in San Fransisco this past weekend. I’m on my way home today but here are a few quick pictures of my time at the event. Signing at the DC Comics booth “Super Capers” actor Adam West, writer/director Ray Griggs and myself R to L starting with Samuel Lloyd (standing in back), Justin Whalin, Ray Griggs and myself. READ MORE
March 1st, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: With all the jobs you have going on at the same time, how do you juggle them all?¬¨‚Ć When you have a deadline for MAD and a job doing a poster and other odd jobs coming up, what do you do?¬¨‚Ć Do you work on the MAD in the morning, and the poster in the afternoon?¬¨‚Ć And what is your limit in terms of taking on more work?¬¨‚Ć Will you only do a certain number of projects at a given time? A: Time management is something that can be difficult to get a handle on as a freelancer. Ideally you don’t ever want to… READ MORE
February 28th, 2009 | Posted in News
Last weekend my local chapter of the National Cartoonist Society (if you can call a chapter that encompasses Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas, Missouri, Nebraska and Colorado “local”) met in Lincoln, NE to judge our assigned division of the NCS Reuben awards, have a chapter meeting and listen to several terrific speakers in the bargain. Some fermented beverages were also consumed. NCC Members deep in contemplation of the entries. First up was the judging of the divisional award for “Editorial Cartooning”. This was a tough subject as it was necessary to try and be objective about the work and set aside your own personal political tastes.… READ MORE
