Tom's Mad Blog
October 29th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here’s a stab at the famously hard-to-caricature William Shatner. Actually these days he’s a lot easier to capture than he was in the 60’s as a younger man. Boston Legal is one of The Lovely Anna‘s favorite TV shows. BTW, sorry for the ugly “©2008 Tom Richmond” in the image, but I am going to start adding that to anything I put on the internet to try and safeguard as best I can against the possible passage someday of the Orphan Works Act. READ MORE
October 28th, 2008 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Just a few jobs going right now. I’m just getting into the final work on my part of the “MAD 20”, AKA “MAD’s 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2008”. It should come as no surprise that one of the subjects of this year’s “MAD 20” is the credit crisis, and that is indeed the subject of my piece. Sorry I can’t share more. Here’s a step by step image gallery of the workplace poster I finished up yesterday. It’s nice that the client I do these for does not mind that I share the final artwork as soon as it’s done. I often… READ MORE
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in General
Monday deadline blues…. Look for an “On the Drawing Board” post tomorrow with a “step by step” of a recent job. READ MORE
October 26th, 2008 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: How did you execute your Holmes graphic (see above) ? Did you scan the material for the clothing and hat then skew it in Photoshop.¬¨‚Ć It looks very cool ! Maybe you don’t want to share your secret. I hope you do. A: It’s not really any kind of secret. It’s just some simple Photoshop trickery. I didn’t save a “step by step” nor did I save the original pattern files, so I will just have to explain it. I do have the original unflattened file so you can see the various elements. First, I inked the image and scanned it as I always… READ MORE
October 25th, 2008 | Posted in General
Our Elizabeth and one of her favorites, Rachel Ray As the parent of an autistic child, no ones knows better than I both the difficulties and expenses involved with raising a kid with autism. As a self employed person, it’s doubly tough as health insurance is a wallet buster under the best of circumstances, let alone when one of your kids has a disability. Autism isn’t nearly as expensive to deal with as other disabilities might be… we didn’t have to remodel our home to accommodate a wheelchair for example. Still there are plenty of extra expenses involved including doctors visits, medication and the like.… READ MORE
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Not the sequel… the “Directors’ Cut“. Back in 1998 MAD published MAD About the Movies, a collection of movie spoofs from over the years. It was in part to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Warner Bros. (WB owns DC Comics which in turn owns MAD) and all the movies in the book were Warner Bros. films. 10 years later MAD is coming out with a new version of the book featuring parodies of films from other studios as well as some from WB. MAD About the Movies: Director’s Cut weighs in at a whopping 400 pages and contains not only SIXTY movie parodies from films… READ MORE
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted in General
Today’s the day I am sitting by the phone in case I am called upon to be a “Phone-a-Friend” lifeline for my pal and fellow caricaturist Jim Batts, who is taping his show this afternoon in New York City. Actually the way this works is he is there and ready to compete if called upon. It is possible he might not be picked from the pool of possible contestants during the taping sessions he is scheduled for. I doubt that, as he is just the kind of guy they’d want on the show… he’s quirky, has an interesting career and he knows a #%^$*@ lot… READ MORE
October 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Almost forgot “Sketch o’the Week” today. In honor of the 2008 World Series, which starts tonight, here’s a quick pencil study of baseball’s meek commissioner “Bud” Selig. Who am I rooting for in the Series? I guess if I had to choose I’d go with Philly, just because I think a team needs to be around for more than a decade before they deserve to be in the World Series. The whole Florida Marlins thing in 1997 and 2003 still makes me a little sick to my stomach. I’m not sure Philly can win it, though. I think it will all come down to whether… READ MORE
