Tom's Mad Blog
January 18th, 2009 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: MAD’s big 500th issue is coming up up in March… can you spill the beans on any plans MAD might have for the milestone? Will you have anything in it? A: The guys at MAD are being pretty tight lipped about the plans for No. 500. I actually don’t know much at all about what to expect, and that includes what little I know that I cannot tell you. Rumor has it that the issue will be bigger than a normal issue (more pages anyway), but that is not confirmed officially. MAD‘s Maddest Writer Dick Debartolo has posted the following in several MAD Message… READ MORE
January 17th, 2009 | Posted in Freelancing
I’ve got a killer MAD job on the board right now with a brutal deadline, so posts this next week may be a bit abbreviated. Here’s my latest newspaper political caricature for the column “Good Old Boys Gone Bad” in North Carolina’s The Independent print and on-line newspaper. READ MORE
January 16th, 2009 | Posted in General
Back to shameless begging… The great Google ad experiment is over. Starting today the ads (as you can see) that for the last year or so have been littering my sidebar are gone. I placed them there in an effort to “monetize” my blog… in other words try to make a little dough to help justify the time and effort I put into The MAD Blog. The idea was to get advertisers to pay me through the Google Adsense program, which would generate some revenue but not cost the readers of the blog a dime. It didn’t work out too well. The way Google ads… READ MORE
January 15th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I’m still not exactly sure how it happened, but somewhere along the line I ended up establishing the reputation of being able to “do a crowd scene”. I am sure my art director at MAD Magazine, Sam Viviano, can sympathize. He is well known for his work with crowd scenes, and all that implies. Simply put, it means you end up getting a lot of jobs doing complicated crowd scenes because… well…. you CAN. In the world of freelancing there is never anything wrong with getting jobs. However when a lot of jobs end up being time consuming crowd scenes, you sometimes just wish for… READ MORE
January 14th, 2009 | Posted in General
Just a FYI- I have gotten a number of complaints over the last few months about it being a hassle to register just to post comments on The MAD Blog. Therefore I have set the blog to no longer require this. However comment moderation is still in play… READ MORE
January 14th, 2009 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Today’s sketch subject is actress Kristen Stewart of “Twilight” fame. I promised myself I would never resort to drawing any of the ridiculously overexposed “Twilight” actors for the blog, but I made an exception for Stewart when I ran across a great picture of her in an entertainment magazine. However if I ever draw Robert Pattinson without being paid by a client to do so, you can consider that one of the signs of the Apocalypse. READ MORE
January 13th, 2009 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As promised, here is a sneak peek of the artwork for my piece in MAD #498, “MAD Exposes Who’s Thinking What at the Obama Inauguration” written by Desmond Devlin, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Frank Santopadre and Dennis Snee. <a href=”http://mebeli-new.free.bg/” mce_href=”http://mebeli-new.free.bg/”>&#1084;&#1077;&#1073;&#1077;&#1083;&#1080;</a>Click image for a Closer Look… Click image for a Closer Look… MAD called me up for this one with a short deadline and just as I was leaving for a long weekend with The Lovely Anna. I got back and banged it out in about a week. Frequent readers of The MAD Blog might recognize a few drawings from the “Sketch o’the Week” in… READ MORE
January 12th, 2009 | Posted in News
Poster art by Drew Struzan! I just got the word that the movie I worked on this summer, Super Capers, got picked up for limited distribution in select cities and theaters. Here’s the press release: Super Caper Release The movie will open March 20th 2009 in the following cities… St. Louis, Indianapolis, Nashville, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Columbus, Kansas City, Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles. Super Capers just got picked up for distribution for only select theaters in these cities but should it do well, there could be a pickup to take it world wide. Please tell a friend and help spread the word and… READ MORE
