Tom's Mad Blog
August 26th, 2015 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
You can probably guess what this new caricature of William Hartnell as the first Doctor Who is for. I have at least a dozen people come up to me at every convention I appear at and ask if I still have any Doctor Who prints, and who are very disappointed that they are sold out. So, I am finally succumbing to the many requests that I do a new DH print that includes Peter Capaldi and John Hurt. For this I will also be doing all new caricatures of the original 11 Doctors, and this is a study for the first Doctor. As always, this… READ MORE
August 25th, 2015 | Posted in General
The Lovely Anna and I just returned from the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, where we had a busy but fun time. I only do a handful of conventions a year: the San Diego Comic-Con and New York Comic Cons are the only ones I get on an airplane for. Then I do both the Wizard World and C2E2 shows in Chicago because that is a reasonable 7 hour drive from here. Last year I did the Wizard World Minneapolis Con, and I will probably do that one again this year just because it’s right in my backyard. Other cons I have done because I… READ MORE
August 24th, 2015 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is something from WAAAAY back. In fact it’s technically the very first thing I ever did for MAD that got “published”… so to speak. Way back in the summer/fall of 2000, MAD spent several months posting original content on its website, then called madmag.com. Called the “MADness of the Week”, these were specially written and drawn features that were sometimes “rollover” images or illustrations that had pop up gags, sometimes static images with text and later included flash-based shorts with limited animation. MAD had their freelancers produce the work, both writing and art, and then would produce the features and post… READ MORE
August 23rd, 2015 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Recently you changed your working process and now you are doing your pencil sketches for MAD parodies just digitally. Is this now your favorite method for all sketches? And I think your inks are still real inks. Do you print out your digital sketches and ink over them? Can you give some details and pros and cons of your new working process? A: I’d say I know do about 75% of my “roughs” on the computer these days. The Wacom Cintiq has evolved into as close to the feel of drawing on paper as I think digital technology can get, so it’s very comfortable… READ MORE
August 21st, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This from the MAD Magazine website… another example of MAD being MAD! Get your daily dose of dopery on MAD’s offical blog, The Idiotical! READ MORE
August 20th, 2015 | Posted in News
Staring this afternoon you’ll find The Lovely Anna and me at Wizard World Comic Con Chicago at booth F-15 in Artists’ Alley. We have a nice corner booth this year. I’ll have the usual stuff and a few new things since my last visit to Chicago available: Signed copies of “The Mad Art of Caricature” Original MAD artwork NEW: Various pencil sketches ranging from $25 to $75 Limited edition prints: “Men of Steel” NEW! “Bats in the Belfry” “The Game is Afoot” My “Presidential Caricatures” poster NEW! Assorted copies of MAD (signed) Exclusive mini-prints of my sold out James Bond print and one of my… READ MORE
August 19th, 2015 | Posted in General
I’m forgoing my Sketch o’the Week this week to show this illustration I did in honor of Yvonne Craig, who passed away Monday at 78 after a two year battle with breast cancer. I had an enormous crush on Ms. Craig as a kid when I loved the Batman TV show. Then I had a different sort of …. uh…. crush on her when I realized as a teenager she played a scantily clad green Orion slave girl who tried to seduce and kill Kirk in an episode of the original Star Trek series. No doubt she played many other roles, but those were the… READ MORE
August 18th, 2015 | Posted in General
It happens to live caricaturists all the time the world over… you flip the drawing over to show it to your customer/model and their response is “I look like I’m pissed off!” It’s hard to explain to someone that, when they aren’t actively smiling, certain faces just look that way, and when you exaggerate features they tend to look even more “that way”. Now thanks to internet memes, this type of face has a label: Resting Bitch Face (RBF). Yes. it finally has a name and is on the radar of the world at large. Caricaturists everywhere rejoice. RBF is a face that, when at… READ MORE
