Tom's Mad Blog
February 5th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Screenrant.com posted an exclusive sneak peek of the two page feature I did the art for in MAD #12; “VH-1 Drags Out Even More RuPaul Shows!”, written by Grant Reed. They had not just the spread (above) but a close up of each of the TV show promo images: Giving credit where credit is due, the “nuclear mushroom cloud” hairdo gag was suggested by MAD art director (and now also managing editor) Suzy Hutchinson. ??? MAD #12 is on sale in Comic Book shops on Feb 19th. READ MORE
February 4th, 2020 | Posted in News
This appears to be the week for people cancelling workshop spots. My Minnesota Caricature Illustration Workshop is back to being sold out, but I now have a spot open in my Chicago area workshop. taking place April 18-19th. Grab it while you can! READ MORE
February 3rd, 2020 | Posted in General
I’ve had a couple of cancellations for my new “Caricature Illustration” workshop, and I’ve exhausted the waitlist so there in one spot now open! Here are some of the details: This is a NEW kind of workshop… Caricature Illustration! Tom’s other workshops focus on teaching the art of caricature and only sample some of his illustration techniques. This workshop will be focused on the process of creating a caricature-based illustration from concept/roughs all the way to color final art. Tom provides instruction on each phase, including: Concept, “narrative”, composition and rough sketches Final pencils and prep for inking Traditional inking with dip pen and brush… READ MORE
February 3rd, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at the splash and one more page from MAD #430 (June 2003)’s spoof of “X-Men 2”. I’m posting this because star Shawn Ashmore mentioned he did not know he’d appeared in MAD way back then, he thought his appearance in the spoof of “The Following” in 2014 was his first time getting into MAD. Here you go, Shawn! READ MORE
February 2nd, 2020 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I see you self-published your caricature book. I’m curious why you went that route, as opposed to shopping it around to a publisher? I would think with your credits as a caricaturist and illustrator with MAD and all, you’d have had an easy time finding an actual publisher for a how-to book like this. Why self publish? A: I released The Mad Art of Caricature back in 2011, and I did think about approaching publishers about the book. In the end I decided to self-publish (sort of… I actually created my own publishing company Deadline Demon Publishing) for four reasons: The niche target audience… READ MORE
January 31st, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
ComingSoon.net just posted a peek at the cover (see above, art by Mark Fredrickson) and some of the contents of the upcoming MAD #12, saying that the issue “targets the television industry”. MAD has been posting small sneak peeks of the contents of MAD #12 on their Instagram page . A lot of people are highly curious about this issue because it is really the first of the “new” MAD with the mix of “classic material” along with some new content that we have been told is the new norm. How much new content? What kind of classic material? No one has been very specific.… READ MORE
January 30th, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Here’s another of about 200 poster illustrations I did for The Marlin Co. over the course of 16 years. This one was from 2012. READ MORE
January 29th, 2020 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
The Grammy winning Lizzo moved to Minneapolis at the beginning of her music career and was a fixture at First Avenue for many years. We count her as “one of us”. As always. the original of this sketch is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
