Tom's Mad Blog
October 12th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Issue number four of the “new” MAD magazine just hit the stands this week. So how’s our beloved rag doing since its radical move to Burbank and a whole new editorial and art staff? I guess that depends on who you ask. Some really old school MAD aficionados are not too pleased with the new direction of the magazine. I’ve read comments about how this “isn’t MAD” and that certain articles don’t have the “MAD voice”. I’ve even seen the obligatory “Bill Gaines must be rolling in his grave” comments (that’s ridiculous… Bill was cremated, so at worst he’s billowing in his urn). Anytime you… READ MORE
October 11th, 2018 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I did this cover for the Library Journal in 2009. The cover story was about how library budgets were getting smaller and smaller and making survival harder. My colored line style. READ MORE
October 10th, 2018 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s SotW is Fleetwood Mac musical legend Stevie Nicks. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
October 10th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
For those of you who hated the MAD iPad app for getting the digital version of the magazine, good news! MAD is discontinuing the app and moving its digital subscriptions over to Magzter. Here are all the details: Q: What happened to my MAD in my MAD app? A: We have listened to our fans through tweets, emails, Facebook, and millions of two complaints via Google+ – the experience of reading issues on the MAD app left much to be desired. We want our fans who like to read the magazine digitally to have as enjoyable and effortless reading experience as those who read the… READ MORE
October 9th, 2018 | Posted in General
I’ve had a cancellation for my Phoenix workshop and no one on the waitlist is still available, so I have put it back on the active registration list. Grab it while it lasts! READ MORE
October 9th, 2018 | Posted in General
I’m getting home from New York today where The Lovely Anna and I did New York Comic Con. The show was crazy busy, especially with commissions. One of the things I do are “sketch covers”. For those not familiar with these, they are comics that have a heavyweight blank paper cover over top of the printed cover. This blank cover usually has the logo of the comic on it, so artists can draw their own “cover” on it. It’s a popular thing at comic book conventions. Anyway, MAD has done two of these sketch covers, one was issue #539. I have a pile of those… READ MORE
October 8th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In subscribers mailboxes for a week or so already, on newsstands everywhere tomorrow and in comic book shops and digital this week! Cover (Gary Pullin) ToC Art (Ron English) Rejected Monster Cereals (Jeff Kruse, Dean Macadam) Sad New Ways to Feel Good About Yourself (Teresa Burns Parkhurst) Sven, Golly, It’s… Svengoolie (Ian Boothby, Tom Richmond) A Slasher Movie Scene We’d Like to See (David DeGrand) Melania Trump Paper Doll (Sina Grace) Cthasper the Friendly Elder God (Peter-John Byrnes, Nick “The Hat” Gucker) Stink Lines Through Art History (Maria Bamford, Scott Marvel Cassidy) The Ghastlygun Tinies (Matt Cohen, Marc Palm) A MAD Look at Dia de… READ MORE
October 5th, 2018 | Posted in General
I will be returning to Seengen, Switzerland in 2019 to conduct not one but TWO workshops on back to back weekends, again all organized through the Cartoon-Schule, a Swiss cartooning art school. The workshops will be on June 28-30th and July 5-7th, held again at the scenic Eichberg Hotel in Seengen, about an hour outside of Zurich. These workshops are organized by the Cartoon-Schule, and they do all the booking, registration, determine the costs and logistics, etc. I conduct them just like my other workshops, same basic itinerary and structure. They are done in English. I am told they already have enough students to fill… READ MORE
