Tom's Mad Blog
November 5th, 2020 | Posted in General
I’ve done this now the last two years and it worked out pretty well (although I started offering them a little too close to the holidays last time, thus the earlier announcement), so I thought I’d give it another go this year. This year I’m again making 15 of these personal caricature commissions available just for the holidays. I’m doing them on 11″ x 14″ bristol, in brush and various pens, colored with Copic markers and a touch of colored pencil, plus maybe some painted highlights. I can do them of you, or of your friend, family member, neighbor, barber, plumber, or some celebrity/famous person (assuming your… READ MORE
November 4th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
I couldn’t resist drawing Nicolas Cage as Hi from “Raising Arizona”. It’s one of favorite Coen Brothers movies. As always, the original is for sale in the Studio Store. Caricature Notes: This is a good example of caricaturing “presence” as much as physical features. I am really doing a caricature of Cage’s character from “Raising Arizona” here, but as always having multiple pictures and from different angles helps build your caricature. Looking at the different references, I see Cage as having a long face with a very long and thin nose, close set eyes, and a lot of forehead. READ MORE
November 3rd, 2020 | Posted in News
Well, we didn’t hit any of them. We are actually VERY GRATEFUL to the 400 people who have backed our book project! THANK YOU BACKERS!! We are also very close to our third stretch goal, where Des and I add an 11th movie parody to the book! This one benefits everybody, because you get more guffaws for your greenbacks! As of this writing we are only a little over $1000 away from that goal! If you are still on the fence about backing CLAPTRAP, get off the furshlugginer fence, already!!! READ MORE
November 3rd, 2020 | Posted in News
Des and I are guests on the latest Chuckload of Comics podcast with host Chuck Lindsey! Watch it here!: READ MORE
November 3rd, 2020 | Posted in News
Desmond and I were guests on the Star Wars in Character podcast posted yesterday. We had a great chat with hosts Tim and Chris about our “Rise of Skywalker” spoof, MAD Magazine parodies in general, and our CLAPTRAP book project. Have a listen here! READ MORE
November 3rd, 2020 | Posted in General
Get. Out. And. Vote. Right. Now. READ MORE
November 2nd, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
With today’s announcement that Des and I will be doing a parody of Toy Story 4 for CLAPTRAP, here’s a look at some of the Pixar-related pieces I did for MAD. While MAD never did an actual full parody of any Pixar films, they did do a number of related features, some of which I did the art on. One was “Toyota Story” that Des wrote, from MAD #504. It makes fun of Toyota’s “Accelerategate” scandal from 2009. Here are the story pages: Another Pixar piece I did was a take on their “Cars” films entitled “Rejected Cars Characters” from MAD #467, written by Jacob… READ MORE
November 2nd, 2020 | Posted in General
When Des and I were putting together the CLAPTRAP campaign, we consulted a number of crowdfunding veterans for advice. We got a lot of great direction, and one of the things almost all we spoke to suggested was to have one really high end, ridiculously expensive “super perk”. It should be something crazy that probably wouldn’t get picked up, but that “high end” perk makes a fun bookend to the choices. So, Des and I came up with the “Megalomaniac” perk. This one allowed the backer to tell US what movie to spoof, with the only caveat being it was a major motion picture and… READ MORE
