Tom's Mad Blog
March 28th, 2008 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Still unbelievably swamped with work and deadlines…. I’ve got several jobs “in the can” as they say (meaning done) and several more with deadlines either creeping up, looming or trying to kick my ass right now. I just finished this one the other day for the workplace poster company and can share it right away as the client doesn’t mind me doing so: Click for a closer look… It may look like I cheated and used a photo background, but I actually cheated and used the fully painted background I did for a piece I did for MAD a few years ago called “Rejected Characters… READ MORE
March 27th, 2008 | Posted in General
This summer I posted about the new book coming out illustrated by my friend and fellow member of MAD’s “Usual Gang of Idiots” Rick Tulka entitled “Paris Caf?¬©: The S?¬©lect Crowd“, and how CBS did a new piece on Rick and the book. Well, the book has been out for some time and The Lovely Anna and I have been enjoying our copy. Rick has told me many times about this caf?¬©, Le S?¬©lect, where he has spent the last decade sipping coffee and drawing the patrons, wait staff and passersby in his inimitable style. Author No??⬨¬¥l Riley Fitch and Rick decided to write a… READ MORE
March 26th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
A quick and not entirely successful study of Kim Basinger from an older photo. Not really much of a caricature. She’s got a very square face shape from the front, but it becomes much more triangular in a 3/4 view. READ MORE
March 25th, 2008 | Posted in General
It’s been a while, but he’s BAAAAAAAACK! READ MORE
March 24th, 2008 | Posted in News
Last week I mentioned that John Read‘s new quarterly magazine, Stay Tooned! had been released and was arriving in subscriber’s mailboxes. Two days later I got my copy, and was finally able to give it a good read through yesterday. First off, it weighs in at a whopping 88 pages, and most of that is content, not advertising. That’s an impressive collection of articles and interviews on cartooning. It’s printed on a white, sturdy stock paper with a color cover. Photos and artwork reproduce well on that paper, and they all look great in the magazine. The issue includes profiles of no less than nine… READ MORE
March 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I just read a story about Mark Cuban banning bloggers from the sports room, which of course set off crazy debates throughout the Internet about the worth (or lack of) of blogging. I know your great blog isn’t a “reporter’s blog” but what’s your take? You’ve been pretty consistent with daily updates, and you’ve added google ads and a MAD store and such… So has your blog become an important addition to your business/career (through branding and additional financial ops) or is it more of a hobby and personal fun outlet? A: Ah. Blogging. One of the most bizarre and diverse facets of the… READ MORE
March 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Surf's Up Dept.
A sm??⬨?rg??⬨‚Ä¢sbord of cartoon, caricature and MAD related website, links, news articles and announcements! You Know What They Say About Guys With Big Heads Dept.- A hilarious video demonstrating why caricaturists perhaps should not be police sketch artists… except in certain cases. Put your Funny Where your Mouth Is Dept.– The Pittsburgh area Toonseum is having it’s first public fund raiser in May… a worthy cause. Here are the details: COMIC, CARTOON AND ANIMATION FANS UNITE! You and your friends are invited to KA-BLAM! A party to benefit the ToonSeum Your Host: Rob Rogers When: Saturday, May 3rd, 7:30 – 11:30 pm Where: ToonSeum, at… READ MORE
March 21st, 2008 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Here’s another of those posts detailing what I’ve currently got on my board. Frequent readers may notice I don’t do these very often anymore. I don’t like posting about jobs I’m doing because in 99% of the cases I can’t show you any of the art because it’s bad form to share it before it’s seen publication. However, this is a blog about freelance illustration, and it provides some insight into the life of a freelancer to see what kind of workload and types of projects are being taken on. So, here we go: MAD Parody- Five pager of a TV show that has been… READ MORE
