Tom's Mad Blog
February 26th, 2007 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD and Running Press are going to be releasing the first of a series of complete collections entitled “MAD’s Greatest Artists”, where they presumably collect all the art of each featured artist that appeared in the magazine. The first volume is called MAD’s Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin. The article linked above comes from Scoop, a website for news about collectibles, does not go into too many details other than to say it will be a two-volume slip-cased special edition and will include every single work Martin created for the magazine, weighing in at over 1000 pages and 17 pounds. The edition also… READ MORE
February 25th, 2007 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: What TV parodies have you done? A: Since last week’s question was about movie parodies, I expected this one would be next. Thanks, for the question, Ike! Again, I did do one TV parody in Cracked, which I will include in the list: Cracked- The Stupranos (The Sopranos)- I wrote this one with help from cartoonist friend Jim Batts MAD- #403- (Mar 01)- “Malcontent in the Muddle” (Malcolm in the Middle) #413- (Jan 02)- “Boston Pubic” (Boston Public) #414 (Feb 02)- “America’s Most Wonton” (America’s Most Wanted) #426 (Feb 03)- “Shlubs” (Scrubs) #435 (Nov 03) “Trashing Places” (Trading Spaces) #442 (June 04) “The O.D.”… READ MORE
February 24th, 2007 | Posted in General
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February 23rd, 2007 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Lots of projects on the board right now but many are of the kind I cannot show sketches or finals of until publication. Workplace Poster– Another one of these jobs… this one is a fun one showing a frazzled woman running for her sanity from family and a co-worker all wanting her attention orhelp. I have to remember to add her lost shoe behind her… Revisions for Nader Museum Job– These are finally being reviewed. I had to alter the composition of one panel and change the private detective from being “too thugish” in several others. Here’s an image of the “before” and one with… READ MORE
February 22nd, 2007 | Posted in It's All Geek to Me!
With all the hype and attention that the iPhone announcement got last month at Macworld, the introduction of another new Apple product got less limelight than it would otherwise have enjoyed… Apple TV. The Apple TV (formerly known in development as iTv) is a small media box that connects not to your computer but to your living room TV, home theater or wherever you kick off your shoes and stare at a screen for entertainment. It uses the latest flavors of media connections including HDMI, component video, optical audio and analog (2 channel only) audio. It also had an Ethernet socket and built in wifi… READ MORE
February 21st, 2007 | Posted in General
This weekend number one son Tommy and I extended Comic Book Day to become Comic Book Movie Day, as we caught a matinee of “Ghost Rider” starring Nicholas Cage and Eva Mendes. I am only barely familiar with the Ghost Rider character from the comics. I vaguely remember him to be a motorcycle stuntman named Johnny Blaze that was somehow cursed to become the Ghost Rider, a kind of Specter wannabe creature of vengeance. I suspected he was the result of Stan Lee and some of the Marvel boys getting together and thinking a motorcycle rider with a burning skull for a head and chain… READ MORE
February 20th, 2007 | Posted in Freelancing
An art director’s job, as it pertains to illustrators, is to work with an artist to create an image or images for a project, be it to accompany an article in a magazine, illustrate a book, add visuals to an advertisement or a product packaging. Anytime a client needs a piece of art there is almost always an art director (AD) involved. Basically ADs act as a translator for the client. They translate what the client’s needs are into the artist’s visual language. They have several tasks along the way. First they need to find an artist who’s work is what the project and client… READ MORE
February 19th, 2007 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
If there was ever a poster child for the seedy side of becoming famous, she is it. I bought an entertainment mag with Anna Nicole Smith on the cover intending it as reference for this sketch at a train station bookstore. The clerk who rang me up immediately offered me her opinion on the matter. “Double murder”, she says. She’s probably right, but it’s the circus of it all that makes me cringe. READ MORE
