Tom's Mad Blog
February 13th, 2009 | Posted in News
I just made plans to attend WonderCon in San Francisco from Feb. 27th through March 1st. I’ll be have several scheduled appearances at the “Super Capers” movie booth where I will be signing copies of the film’s promotional comic book as well as possibly at the DC Comics exhibit. I will have a bunch of original art for sale from MAD and I might be drawing some live caricatures as well. Emphasis on the “might” as I am not sure I’ll have the room or will be able to drag a drawing board setup with me. Hopefully I will also have some copies of MAD… READ MORE
February 13th, 2009 | Posted in News
MSNBC reports about a criminal case in Pennsylvania involving two judges who allegedly accepted over 2.6 million dollars in kickbacks for sentencing minors to dentention/correctional facilities, including a girl who’s crime was creating a parody of her vice principal. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy My God. If drawing caricatures of your high school’s authority figures was punishable by jailtime, I’d be in permanent solitary confinement right next to Hannibal Lecter in some dungeon somewhere. The young lady in the story and video created a parody MySpace page that lampooned her high school’s vice principal. For that she got… READ MORE
February 12th, 2009 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Here’s what I’ve got on the board right now: Supercapers Comic Book– 13 page full color promo comic for the movie I did illustration work on. I was given two weeks to get this done, which is almost impossible so I am collaborating with my friend and ace comic book artist/inker Tom Nguyen on it. I’m doing the penciling, color and all design/layout while Tom is inking most of the book with me inking the caricatured faces and some other detail work. It’s been a long time since anyone else has inked my work, so this should be fun to see. Tom is one of… READ MORE
February 11th, 2009 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s subject is the late, great Paul Newman. When Newman passed away last year it occured to The Lovely Anna and I that we had never seen many of the movies that made him famous and were heralded as high points of his career. I had seen “Cool Hand Luke” a few times,¬¨‚Ć “Slap Shot” (one of the greatest sports movies of all time) and a few other Newman films from the 80’s on, but not many of his older movies.¬¨‚Ć So, we made it a point to rent some of his classics. “The Sting” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” were the… READ MORE
February 10th, 2009 | Posted in General
Right now I am deeply immersed in trying to kick out a 13 page full color promotional comic book that is to be given away as a promo item for the movie “Super Capers”. I did a bunch of illustration work for the film, which will appear during the opening credits and in a flashback scene near the beginning of the movie. The movie will debut in select theaters on March 20th, and if sells a predetermined number of tickets it will get picked up by a major distributor (there is a deal in place) and will be shown in about 2000 theaters this summer.… READ MORE
February 9th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The guys at MAD are releasing a lot of sneak peek exclusives of issue #499 on the internet… this one comes courtesy of the Walletpop Blog. It’s a small image but there you have it. READ MORE
February 9th, 2009 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Here is this week’s column spot illustration for “The Independent“. I am told this feature will have a total of eight of these caricatures. This is number seven. This has been a fun little project because these illustrations are done quickly and loosely, without a lot of overthinking. READ MORE
February 8th, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Obviously most freelancers start at the bottom of the barrel and in the beginning of their career may take on some less glamorous jobs. However, once they start becoming a bit more established and gain bigger clients, how do they separate themselves from previous clients in order to focus on the jobs that they had been trying to get in the first place? A: A freelancer is not a factory, where you can add more employees and equipment to increase production when demand gets high. As a single artist you can only produce so much work. Therefore, once you reach a point where you… READ MORE
