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October 22nd, 2021 | Posted in News
This past June I very quietly celebrated the 15th anniversary of the start of “Tom’s Mad Blog”. By “very quietly” I mean I never acknowledged the milestone, nor even remembered it actually. This post is my 5,423th post. That’s a lot of posts. I started doing this back in the day as a way to scratch my “writing” itch, and to share what I do, how I do it, and my journey getting it done with anyone who would care to listen. Mission accomplished, I think. Fifteen years is a long time in the tech world. When I started this blog, MySpace was the dominant… READ MORE
October 21st, 2021 | Posted in News
I was flattered to be involved in this terrific documentary about the amazing Rube Goldberg, which was created by his filmmaker grandson Geoffrey George. It’s a short film but really shows you how incredibly multi-talented and diverse Rube was. He did so much more than the crazy machines he’s best known for. The documentary features my pals Al Jaffee, Ed Steckley, Charlie Kochman, and Robin Schwartzman among others, and it’s free to view for a limited time as part of a “Twin Cities Virtual Jewish Film Festival”. Just visit this link and click the “Unlock for Free” button. You will need to register but it’s… READ MORE
October 19th, 2021 | Posted in News
If you missed the live stream of the National Cartoonists Society/NCSFest this past weekend, you missed a lot of informative, entertaining, and fun stuff. Or did you? Actually the entire two day event is available to see again on YouTube, including all the panels, interviews, pro tips and workflow demos, awards, and the epic “Battle of the Toons”. The Battle of the Toons was a “Survivor” like competition where cartoonists each make a case for a particular comics character as the best ever, and to be the stand one standing after the audience votes on who stays and who goes. This was conducted live from… READ MORE
October 15th, 2021 | Posted in News
Streaming live starting at 11:00 am EDT in conjunction with the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival! Be sure to “toon” in at 2 pm EDT for the “Battle of the Toons”, where advocates for various comics characters fight for their character to be voted as the greatest comics character of all time. Rumor has it there will be an appearance by the Dark Knight of Gotham City himself! READ MORE
October 12th, 2021 | Posted in News
This Friday and Saturday the National Cartoonists Society will conduct its annual Reuben Awards as well as NCSFest virtually via a live stream from its website. This will be the 75th anniversary of the NCS, and they have a great slate of presentations and speakers as well as the awards and some other fun stuff. See the trailer above for a peek at what to expect, and toon in Friday for all the fun. If you can’t make it, don’t worry… everything will be available to watch later. READ MORE
October 5th, 2021 | Posted in News
Some news on the workshop front! Due to the continued unknowns of the pandemic, and because I was trying to concentrate my efforts on putting together my online video workshop, I have not scheduled any in-person workshops since 2020 (although I did a few makeup ones in 2021). Frankly after the nightmare that was 2020 and all the cancellations, postponements and re-postponements I was not planning on doing any or very few live workshops anymore, and that is still more or less the plan. However friend and fellow caricaturist Thomas Counts has been after me to do a workshop in his newly built private art… READ MORE
September 30th, 2021 | Posted in News
One week from today, it’s the return of in-person comic cons with New York Comic Con, which runs from Oct 7th-10th! The Lovely Anna and I will be manning a booth in Artist’s Alley for the first time since Feb 2020, when we appeared at C2E2 in Chicago and COVID-19 was just beginning to rear its ugly head. We are looking forward to doing a live show again! If you can’t make it to NYCC, never fear. This year I’ll also be conducting a simultaneous “Virtual Artist’s Alley” booth here on my website. Starting at 10 am on October 7th and ending at 5 pm… READ MORE
September 28th, 2021 | Posted in News
In a little over two weeks the National Cartoonists Society will conduct NCSFest 2021, once again taking place virtually on their website NCSFEST.com. This year will be another collaboration with The Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, which is going on simultaneously on the other side of the pond in Kendall, UK. There will be a lot of fun programming, with panels and presentations galore… some featuring yours truly. The NCS Reuben awards are intertwined into the festival, so those honors will be bestowed including THE Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year”. So, mark your calendars but don’t worry about wearing any formalwear… or… READ MORE
