Tom's Mad Blog
February 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I’m a college student, and I have very little time as it is, but I also freelance and am about to start drawing caricatures at a theme park for the summer as well… so I have a lot on my plate. Recently I’ve put on a few pounds (more like 20ish…), because I haven’t been eating well or exercising like I used to, because I don’t have the time. My question to you is, how on earth do you find time to make it to the gym, or not eat garbage all the time? A: The quick answer is… I often don’t find the… READ MORE
February 21st, 2009 | Posted in Surf's Up Dept.
Frequent reader of The Mad Blog and fellow Minnesotan Marv Sohlo emailed me a link to this video which features a short but informative piece on caricatures and why they resonate so much with people. It’s from the BCC show “The Human Face” narrated by John Cleese. Unfortunately the creators do not allow embedding, but click on the screen capture to go to the YouTube clip: Click on the image for the full clip… it’s less than 2 minutes…. we’ll wait… I’ve always said that a really good caricature looks more like the subject than a photo does, and some of the observations this video… READ MORE
February 20th, 2009 | Posted in General
Whew. In the last 4 1/2 weeks I have done back to back projects for MAD (6 page parody of the movie “Watchmen”) and a 13 page comic book (with inks by the great Tom Nguyen) promoting the movie “Super Capers”, which will be given away at WonderCon next weekend in San Francisco, as well ans a handful of smaller jobs. That’s a lot of hours spend in the studio penciling, inking and coloring. How many hours? I don’t know, I never keep track of the time. However I can measure it in audiobooks. It took me the entire seven books in the Harry Potter… READ MORE
February 19th, 2009 | Posted in General
I almost made it to the end of my comic book project without resorting to the DDD… but not quite. READ MORE
February 18th, 2009 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s subject: Barbadian singer, model and former beauty queen Rihanna. READ MORE
February 17th, 2009 | Posted in Surf's Up Dept.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_B5UrI7nAI[/youtube] I’m usually not one to post random YouTube videos no matter how clever, but every once and awhile you find the perfect blend of image, humor and ingenuity and it cannot be resisted. Between the funny design of the character, the fact that this is the actual song and not some redub AND the further fact that someone realized what they were hearing and made the connection, this might be the funniest 20 second video I’ve ever seen. Thanks to Mark Evanier for the link. READ MORE
February 17th, 2009 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Last month I got a call from the art director of Penthouse magazine asking if I was available to do a series of spot illustrations for a humor article about St. Patrick’s Day for their March issue. My immediate concern was whether the job entailed drawing any pornographic images. I won’t do that kind of work. I was assured not, and that all I’d be drawing was a guy getting drunk out of his mind, fighting and eventually passing out in his own vomit. Well, there’s nothing wrong with that! The issue is out and here are a few of the spots that were used… READ MORE
February 16th, 2009 | Posted in General
As I mentioned the other day I am extremely busy right now, and trying to keep any meaningful content on the blog is difficult. I thought I might, under these very occasional circumstances, take a page out of my friend Cedric Hohnstadt‘s book and do a little something called “Reblogging”. Cedric does (or did) that every so often. After being in existence for a long time, a blog will have a lot of back content that is buried so deep no one will ever see it unless they specifically search for it… and if they don’t know it’s there they can’t do that, can they?… READ MORE
