Tom's Mad Blog
May 2nd, 2008 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
A number of jobs going right now. First, here’s a look at that workplace poster I did last week: Click for a Closer Look… Other jobs- “Super Capers” Movie Job– Continuing to work on this big project. Hope to have it wrapped up this month MAD– Just got word about a new project for MAD #492. Movie… that’s all I can say! Online Gaming Website– Designing and illustrating player characters and environments for a new game website. Ongoing, but when it’s on-line I will certainly share the URL. Scholastic– Quick spot illustration, election related. Gotta get back to work! READ MORE
May 1st, 2008 | Posted in General
… just watched tonight’s episode with some LOST obsessed neighbors. In the latest round of “flash forwards” Hurley is claiming that the “Oceanic Six” never made it off the island, and they are in fact dead. Meanwhile on the island in present time (maybe?) Julia has to do an emergency appendectomy on Jack, which is successful. During the operation something occured to me, so through the magic of TIVO I went back to the beginning of the episode during the first of the flash forwards. Jack is shown waking up and getting out of bed and parading around shirtless in a bath towel…. … no… READ MORE
April 30th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
A quick study of Saturday Night Live‘s Andy Samberg. He’s got this incredibly thick neck and small cranial mass. An interesting face to draw. READ MORE
April 29th, 2008 | Posted in General
FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) is the term for any strategy intended to make a company’s customers insecure about future product plans with the purpose of discouraging them from adopting competitors’ products. FUD is also an internet term for rumors or emotional responses to issues that are passed off as facts. In the last week or so the term “FUD” has been bandied about over the reactions to the proposed and recently released Orphan Works Act of 2008, with many people accusing folks like me of emotional reactions to imaginary issues. While some of that has been going on, there is plenty about the actual… READ MORE
April 28th, 2008 | Posted in News
Artwork by Jay Kennedy Scholarship winner Juana Medina A few days ago I wrote a brief post about last year’s dual recipients of the National Cartoonist Society Foundation’s scholarships. This year the NCSF awarded the first Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship, an award established by a donation to the NSCF by KingFeatures in memory of the late jay Kennedy, to Juana Medina, a sophomore at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). From The Daily Cartoonist: The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) announced the winner of the first annual Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship, Juana Medina, a sophomore at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Medina… READ MORE
April 27th, 2008 | Posted in General
Q: After working overseas as an illustrator for a while, I made the mistake of moving back home to Scotland. In short, there was no work. At all. So, like any plucky young cartoonist, I hung up my brushes and moved on to other work (editing magazines.). Now I’m trying to get back into the swing of things, and I’m finding it hard to draw again (it’s been a little over 18 months now). Any tips on getting my skills back to a decent level? A: That’s really impossible to answer as it’s very different for everybody. I can only tell you what I would… READ MORE
April 26th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
A little birdie told me that the cover of MAD #490 has been appearing on the internet in a few places, apparently leaked by some Time Warner employee calling himself “Deep Schmuck”. Cover above is from movie blogsite /Film. Interestingly, an actual article from the magazine is also shown on that /Film page: Click to see a close up from /Film Being a good boy respectful of copyright, I will wait until the issue actually comes out to post the contents and some peeks at my piece in it, which I won’t tell you is a parody of 30 Rock, so don’t ask. READ MORE
April 25th, 2008 | Posted in News
EDIT- Having read the actual bills on release, I have a number of corrections and futher information in accordance to the actual bill’s language and content. I’d recommend reading this more recent blog post to separate the facts from the FUD. Tuesday the Illustrator’s Partnership received draft copies of the 2008 version of the Orphan Works bill I’ve discussed so often here. The bill itself was released yesterday. I’ve read and blogged a lot about this issue. Here’s a link to the articles I’ve done on this horrifically misguided piece of legislation. A week or two ago I found this sarcastic but reasonably well written… READ MORE
