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December 4th, 2020 | Posted in General
Last week I put a dozen or so pieces of my original art from MAD Magazine in my Studio Store for a “Black Friday” sale. That’s rare nowadays because after MAD stopped doing the parodies I realized I was probably done doing this kind of work for them. What I had in my flat files was the last of the MAD movie parody art, so I pulled any MAD originals from my store and seldom offer them for sale anymore. That reminded me how rare these sorts of pieces of original art are starting to become… and not just because publications like MAD are going… READ MORE
November 28th, 2020 | Posted in General
I get a lot of people who tell me on Facebook or Twitter or wherever that they didn’t hear about this workshop that just happened close to them, or that Holiday Caricature Commission offer/virtual comic con, or whatever else until it was sold out, and wished they had as they would have liked to participate or get one. It seems some folks only occasionally visit the intensely riveting and regularly updated “Tom’s Mad Blog” rather than visit every day twice a day. Who knew?? Okay, 99% of my posts are time wasting stuff, but sometimes I do announce something you might actually want to hear… READ MORE
November 27th, 2020 | Posted in General
When MAD announced last year that they were not going to be doing any more movie or TV parodies, I immediately pulled any original MAD pages I had for sale in the Studio Store. I haven’t offered any for sale since, because neither I nor they are making them anymore. I figured I’d better hang on to any I had left, which isn’t a huge number as many have sold over the years. However for Black Friday this year I am listing a limited number of older pages at close to half the price I usually charge ($175 instead of $300). I’m listing them because…… READ MORE
November 26th, 2020 | Posted in General
Happy Thanksgiving, America! This is a hard one. I hope you all have a wonderful but small and safe Thanksgiving. READ MORE
November 24th, 2020 | Posted in General
Now that the craziness that was the CLAPTRAP crowdfunding campaign is done, I’m finally able to devote some real time to the drawing board. I’ve of course been at work on CLAPTRAP, but I’ve also been slowly chipping away at a huge list of NYCC “Virtual Artist’s Alley” commissions from last month. Here’s a smattering of some of the “live style” caricatures I have done. Some of the people in these are the folks who commissioned the drawings and asked to be drawn as characters with the favorite TV/Movie stars. READ MORE
November 21st, 2020 | Posted in General
That’s a wrap! The “funding” portion of Des and my crowdfunding campaign has ended, and our Indiegogo page has moved into the “Indemand” phase. This will last until the book ships next year. Indemand is basically just an online store where you can pre-order a copy of the book. Most of the previous perks that were available have now gone, having been available only during the “funding” part of the campaign, and helped us reach our initial goal and all the stretch goals. There’s still some fun extras available and different price points to preorder the book: The “Clod”– A basic copy of the hardcover… READ MORE
November 20th, 2020 | Posted in General
Today is the final day of our campaign, and Des and I have our over 600 awesome backers to thank for not just reaching our initial goal, but all our stretch goals! We are humbled and grateful for all the support, and we can’t wait to continue to work on the book and share our progress with backers and everyone as we go. As a way of saying a big, CLAPTRAP thank you to all those who backed us during funding part of our project, we have a surprise perk for you! Everyone who has backed the project from the “Clod” level and up will… READ MORE
November 19th, 2020 | Posted in General
Thanks to the incredible support of our backers, CLAPTRAP‘s 5th and final stretch goal just got unlocked! There will now be TWELVE FULL MOVIE PARODIES in the book, which if you include the six movie poster spoofs from our previous stretch goal and other surprises, will probably push the book close to or over 100 pages!! THANK YOU ALL! WOW… What’s next? The “funding’ portion of the campaign ends at midnight PST tomorrow, and the book project’s Indiegogo page moves into the “Indemand” phase. Indemand is basically an online store, where anyone can go in and preorder a copy of the book. This will continue… READ MORE
