Tom's Mad Blog
December 1st, 2006 | Posted in News
Well, not really, but sort of. Minneapolis has an art college called the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, which is one of only a handful of schools in the country with a full degree and program in cartooning. It’s mostly centered on comic book and graphic storytelling, but also encompasses cartooning in it’s many forms. MCAD was very gracious in hosting an art show and speaking event for our National Cartoonist Society North Central Chapter meeting this fall. Read about the event here and here. During the show’s opening I was asked if I was interested in speaking at the school and/or participating in… READ MORE
November 30th, 2006 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
I’ve got a TV parody for MAD in the works and I’ll be really going to town on that starting today. Here’s my latest poster illustration for the workplace poster client: Honestly, many of these poster jobs turn out so-so and I’m not always thrilled with the final results. This one I thought was a fun one and it shows in the final. Interesting scene, lots of fun, expressive faces to draw and the kind of interacting crowd and environment I always find fun to work out and render. It’s always a nice break when I do something without having a caricature involved. READ MORE
November 29th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Recent Octogenarian, singer Tony Bennett: READ MORE
November 29th, 2006 | Posted in News
I had no idea the following was going on: FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP Groups Form Illustrators’ Rights Coalition A coalition of U.S. illustrators’ organizations have come together to speak with one voice on behalf of artists’ reprographic rights. That was the message delivered by the Illustrators’ Partnership to the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO) which met in conference Oct. 28 ?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ” Nov. 2 in Auckland, New Zealand. Representing the coalition were artists Cynthia Turner and Brad Holland of the Illustrators’ Partnership and Terrence Brown, Director of the Society of Illustrators. The twelve groups are: The Illustrators’ Partnership The Association of Medical Illustrators The… READ MORE
November 28th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
A very small study of Pamela Anderson’s once again ex, Kid Rock: READ MORE
November 28th, 2006 | Posted in General
A good friend convinced me that selling this artwork for the song I was asking was a disservice. Maybe it will never be sellable for much more than I was asking, but it is worth more to me.??ᬨ‚Ć I guess the after market for pages from MAD isn’t worth much if your last name isn’t Drucker, Davis, Wood or similar… or more accurately if you aren’t in the same league as those guys.??ᬨ‚Ć Of course, who is? I’ve ended my eBay auction and taken the references to selling the parody art for Battyman Begone off the Blog and the Studio Store. Maybe one day I… READ MORE
November 28th, 2006 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As long as I’m on the subject, MAD also tried another on-line endeavor years ago in conjunction with AOL. It was called the “RED” page and was a special teen orientated AOL site. MAD contributed a daily cartoon for the page. This was really a fun job, as it was a quick image and a quick turnaround. MAD needed a digital JPG file at 300 x 300 dpi, usually withing a few hours of calling with the job. It was almost like doing newspaper work, and it paid pretty well considering the short time involved. In order to get these done quickly, I would skip… READ MORE
November 27th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
A very quick one of former NFL running back turned reality TV dancer Emmitt Smith: I guess he won something either by dancing or by wearing the dumbest outfit ever worn by a man on television… I don’t get ‘reality’ TV. READ MORE
