Tom's Mad Blog
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
November 27th, 2006 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD has had several different website designs and redesigns over the last five or so years. They’ve done numerous things, like try and make it an extension of the magazine with original content updated weekly. As I wrote in the mailbag yesterday, I happened along at the time they were first attempting this, and it led to my getting some assignments that were not for print but for the website. They actually had a separate editor that was handling the content, which generally involved a list or short article and some kind of image. Sometimes it was just a static article, but usually it involved… READ MORE
November 26th, 2006 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Another Heroes cast member, Hayden Panettiere: Save the Cheerleader, Save the World! READ MORE
November 26th, 2006 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: When did you start drawing for MAD, and what was your first article? A: That’s somewhat of a complicated question because the first thing I ever drew for MAD was actually the sixth piece I had printed, my first ‘published’ job was not for the magazine but for their website, and the first actual assignment I got printed was given to me three months after that first piece was done. Unofficially my first assignment was a job called “MAD’s Cable TV Viewing Odds” in June of 2000. I say “unofficially” because it was more of a tryout than a real job. I believe they… READ MORE
