Tom's Mad Blog
May 11th, 2007 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As promised, here’s a quick sneak peek at some of the art from the parody of “DOG the Bounty Hunter” in this month’s MAD: Pencil roughs of the splash page. Click image for a closer look Final colored art. Click image for a closer look A few panels from the parody… Surprisingly I rather enjoyed the show itself. You have to admire a man who places so much emphasis on his family and God as “Dog” does… even if the people he’s chasing are about as dangerous as your average librarian. TV also works magic on making someone look bigger than life… DOG looks like… READ MORE
May 10th, 2007 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops today and on newsstands on Tuesday, May 15th: MAD # 478 (June 2007) Cover (Mark Frederickson) The Fundalini Pages (Charles Akins, John Caldwell, Paul Coker, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Darren Johnson, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Glen LeLievre, Kevin Pope, Irving Schild, Jack Syracuse, Jason Yungbluth) Lewd and Disorder: It’s P.U. (Arnie Kogen, Mort Drucker) Rejected Army Recruitment Posters (Jacob Lambert, Irving Schild) 10 Ways to Liven Up the National Spelling Bee (Jeff Kruse, Paul Coker) MAD’s Vemonous Outtakes from “Spider-Man 3” (Uncredited) Monroe and… Cruelty Free (Anthony Barbieri, Tom Fowler) The Average 5th Grader Knows… (J. Prete, Peter Bagge) A MAD… READ MORE
May 9th, 2007 | Posted in General
I found a little tidbit in my latest copy of the National Cartoonist Society’s excellent newsletter “The Cartoon!st” about the opening of a very different kind of museum. It seems downtown Indianapolis is now home to “The American Super Heroes Museum“, which houses the collection of Dane Nash. Nash has been a lifelong fan of superheroes and has amassed a gigantic collection of Superman and Batman collectibles including vintage toys, games, posters, puzzles, figurines and other items. Nash apparently has an affinity for Tv and movie costumes and props, as the collection also features screen worn costumes by Superman actors Kirk Alyn, George Reeves, Christopher… READ MORE
May 8th, 2007 | Posted in General
Michael Emerson as Ben Linus, or as Sawyer calls him: “That Bug-eyed Bastard!” This article from yesterday details the final schedule for ABC’s “Lost”. The “100 episode” and “5 season” run has been mentioned several times, but now they seem to have set an exact timeline for the life of the show: 48 more episodes that will span three seasons of 16 uninterrupted shows. I would have preferred two more seasons with 22 episodes each, the first and last episodes each season being two hour specials for a total of 48 hours, but this is tolerable. When LOST came back on the air after that… READ MORE
May 7th, 2007 | Posted in General
For the last few years cartoonists attempted to make May 5th “National Cartoonist’s Day“, mainly by asking syndicated strip cartoonists to mention it in their May 5th strips. There wasn’t much else to it, really. It was supposed to be meant as a way to make people aware of cartooning as a profession, but I still haven’t quite figured out how a self proclaimed holiday would do that. This year I heard nothing about “National Cartoonists Day” in the funnies, so I don’t know if that idea is ag oner or just on hiatus. May 5th was a bigger deal this year in that it… READ MORE
May 6th, 2007 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: The splash pages for your MAD parodies are full of Caricature illustrations/bodies, all set around a relevant scene and I wonder how you go about working out these scenes and where you start with the first pencil lines that will go to make up these scenes? Which by the way are awesome! A: First off, thanks for the kind words! Splash pages are particularly complex. They are like puzzles that need to be figured out and solved. The layouts I receive from MAD include the headers and all the text boxes in place. I also get a script with some descriptions or explanations of… READ MORE
May 5th, 2007 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, quick sketch and value study for a possible park sample. My old Snoop drawing needs replacing. Since I’m planning on doing a fair amount of live drawing this year, I’d like to come up with 12 new samples. Ordinarily I’d pick new subjects but Snoop is still relative and a better example of him is in order. READ MORE
May 4th, 2007 | Posted in General
Birthdays seem to pile up faster and faster the older you get. I’m forty one today, but in the immortal words of Indiana Jones… “It’s not the years, Honey… it’s the mileage.” Back in 1989 I became a manager for a caricature concession company at the tender age of 23. I was roughly the same age as the artists I trained and younger than some. At 25 I owned my own caricature businesses and got a lot of funny looks from people when they were told I was the owner of the business. A few years ago I officially contracted an artist to draw caricatures… READ MORE
