Tom's Mad Blog
June 29th, 2007 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Extremely busy on several jobs right now, and two new ones on top of that. After wrapping up pencils on a MAD job and another project today, I got a chance to do the pencils on that Sherlock Holmes audiobook project. The client wants me to create a caricature-like image of Holmes without doing an actual caricature of any of the actors who have portrayed him. Here’s what I came up with: Doing something like that isn’t as complicated as it might sound. After all, the image of Sherlock Holmes is well defined in pop culture’s visual lexicon. All I need do is design a… READ MORE
June 28th, 2007 | Posted in General
It’s been a while since The Dreaded Deadline Demon darkened the door. I am paying the price for working 4 of the last 5 days doing live caricatures at Valleyfair and daring to take a full day off on the one day I did not work to attend a neighborhood get together. I now have five full blown projects in the works, and things are going to get interesting the next few days. The good news is that some of the jobs I’ll be able to post in stages, so I can share some of the process over the next few days. READ MORE
June 27th, 2007 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Chicks with automatic weapons for legs… does it get any more fun than that? Especially if the machine gun appendaged chick looks like Rose McGowan. Wednesdays is now “Sketch O’The Week” day! At least for this week it is… READ MORE
June 26th, 2007 | Posted in General
We laughed, we cried… mostly we yawned. Yes, today is the one year anniversary of the MAD blog. They said it wouldn’t last. I visit a number of blogs regularly, but few every day. I always hate visiting a blog to find it hasn’t had an update in weeks. I promised myself on the outset of doing this blog that I would try and write something every day unless a serious deadline of some kind made that impossible, and on those days I would at least acknowledge readers with some kind of apology or excuse. I wanted the blog to be part entertainment, part educational,… READ MORE
June 25th, 2007 | Posted in General
Here’s a few from yesterday at Valleyfair: READ MORE
June 24th, 2007 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I have a question for your blog site about MAD artists. I have heard there are two kinds. Those younger artists who grew up reading MAD and the older ones who first drew for MAD (could not read it as a youngster as it did not exist). Can you comment on these types and do you think there is a difference between what a newer artist can contribute as a result of “growing up” on MAD? A: Well, it’s like they say… there’s nothing like the original. I think the early generation of MAD artists were no less than trail blazers and giants in… READ MORE
June 23rd, 2007 | Posted in News
The iPhone hasn’t even come out yet before the copycat rip-offs start appearing. Here’s a YouTube video of one such device: There are several things about this video that I find hilarious. First, it’s very accurate in regards to the opening of the package, as the ‘owner’ briefly glances at each piece and tosses it aside, including the manual, before turning on the device and pressing buttons. Nobody ever reads the manual! Second, even though there is an Apple logo (sometimes backwards) and the OS X look to the interface, when the device is turned on you hear the Windows chimes! I still can’t call… READ MORE
June 23rd, 2007 | Posted in News
Image courtesy of www.editorialcartoonists.com The annual Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is having their 50th anniversary convention next month, and it looks to be quite an event as usual. It’s being held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. on July 4th -7th. Like always, it’s chock full of speakers and panel discussions with titles like “What’s so Funny About War?” or “What Do You Mean You’re Not Animating Yet?”. They also usually con one of their targets into being the keynote speaker… this year is Democratic presidential candidate and veggie lover Dennis Kucinich. I don’t know how they do that. The convention was here… READ MORE
