Tom's Mad Blog
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
March 20th, 2008 | Posted in General
This last issue of MAD was a unique one. It’s an “All Monkey Issue”, filled from front to back with gags about monkeys and apes. They even did a parody of the TV show “Monk” with Mort Drucker drawing a monkey instead of the lead character. Tony Shalhoub must have been disappointed (although the monkey looked a little like him more than occasionally)! My job for the issue was a really different as well. I was called on to draw the staff of MAD as monkeys… or apes as the case may be. I was told not to worry that much about the likenesses of… READ MORE
March 19th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Click image for a closer look… Another “cheat” as this is a pencil for a poster job. There may be a lot of cheating on the blog for the next two weeks or so. I have multiple large projects all coming to a head and once and it will be a serious challenge to keep the blog updated daily. The good news is I will have plenty of final art to share once it’s either published or public, or what have you. READ MORE
March 18th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic shops and on news stands today: MAD # 488 (April 2008) Cover (Irving “Shenanigans” Schild and Jack “Scrambles” Syracuse) Meet The New Staff of MAD (Jeff “Pinky” Kruse, Tom “Pickles” Richmond) The Monkey-lini Pages (Charles “Taffy” Akins, Scott “Jazzy” Bircher, Jacob “Porkchop” Chabot, Tom “Sugar-Pie” Cheney, Desmond “Diapers” Devlin, Garth “Goober” Gerhart, Gary “Giblets” Hallgren, Jeff “Pinky” Kruse, Kevin “Diggles” Pope) “MONKey” (Charlie “Choo-Choo” Kadau, Mort “Squiggles” Drucker) A MAD Look At Humans (Sergio “Grabbers” Aragon?¬©s) MOMA-The Museum Of Monkey Art (Hermann “Knuckles” Mejia, Roberto “Be-Bop” Parada, Richard “Crumples” Williams, James “Gumdrop” Warhola) Snappy Answers To Stupid Human Questions (Al “Muddy Joe” Jaffee,… READ MORE
March 17th, 2008 | Posted in News
“The park formerly known as Camp Snoopy” and “until recently was known as the Park at MOA” officially changed to “Nickelodeon Universe” on Saturday with a grand opening gala. Ashley Simpson was lip syncing on the main stage at noon, several Nick TV stars were on hand to sign autographs, and the new rides and theming were fully unveiled. Four roller coasters, a flume, Ferris wheel and a dozen other major rides in “Nick U”. Yes, it’s all indoors… Our caricature booth, having been previously designed for the “Northwoods Camp” theme of Camp Snoopy, got replaced with a kiosk style cart themed for the new… READ MORE
