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Tom Richmond on Tall Tales Radio

Tom Racine interviews MAD cartoonist Tom Richmond about caricature, MAD Magazine, Batman, and his trip to Iraq with Stephan Pastis and Gary Trudeau.

Posted on: Jan 6, 2010,  Section: Interviews, Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Podcasts, Comments: 7 Comments

Apple approves Richmond’s Bobble Rep app

Last week the news that Tom Richmond and Ray Grigg’s “Bobble Rep” iPhone app had been rejected from the iTunes App Store went viral across Mac and cartooning blogs. Saturday, Tom was notified that Apple had reversed its decision and the app is now in the App Store.
Bobble Rep, the iPhone app conceived and produced [...]

Posted on: Nov 16, 2009,  Section: Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, mobile, Comments: 11 Comments

Richmond, Eliot, Cagle: reports from Middle East

We have three reports from cartoonists regarding their trips to the Middle East region. MAD Magazine artist Tom Richmond was part of the NCS/USO group that went to Iraq, Jan Eliot and Daryl Cagle went to Algiers for the 2009 Festival International de la Bande Dessinee d’Alger and then went on to Morocco (Eliot), Egypt [...]

Posted on: Nov 2, 2009,  Section: Comic strips, International, Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, National Cartoonist Society, Speaking Engagements, Comments: 0 Comments

Magazine market dropping the use of cartoons

Last week came news of several papers in the alt-newspaper market that were temporarily suspending buying syndicated cartoons. Mike Lynch reports that several magazines have stopped buying cartoons, reduced their payout or started buying Cartoonbank cartoons. Specifically he mentions First for Women, Good Housekeeping, Time Magazine and Woman’s World as having made major changes to [...]

Posted on: Feb 2, 2009,  Section: Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Magazine cartoons, Comments: 2 Comments

Tom Richmond opines on MAD’s new quarterly status

As promised, MAD Magazine artist Tom Richmond has posted a lengthy and insightful article on the recent announcement that MAD Magazine was dropping to a quarterly after this April.
MAD’s real problem is one they cannot avoid… they are a magazine. Name me a single magazine, outside tabloid trash peddlers, that isn’t struggling badly right now. [...]

Posted on: Jan 26, 2009,  Section: Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Magazines, Comments: 4 Comments

News Briefs for October 10, 2008

» MAD cartoonist Tom Richmond will be the “Phone a Friend” for Jim Batts, a fellow caricaturist, who will be competing on the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” on October 23.
» The Jamestown Sun (ND) has picked up Chad Carpenter’s self-syndicated Tundra.
» Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich will speak at North Georgia College [...]

Posted on: Oct 10, 2008,  Section: Comic history, Comic strips, Editorial cartooning, Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Comments: 0 Comments

News Briefs for May 5, 2008

» The Beat has your Free Comic Book Day round up.
» Webcomic PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) has partnered with the AfterCollege network to post career and job information to its comic subscribers.
» Tom Richmond reviews Axiotron’s Modbook vs. Cintiq 12 WX for those who draw directly into the computer.
» E&P mentions that Ticonderoga Cartoon [...]

Posted on: May 5, 2008,  Section: Cartoons, Comic strips, Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Museums, Comments: 0 Comments

Al Jaffee profiled in New York Times

Al Jaffee, the MAD Magazine cartoonist who draws the MAD Fold-In and one of this year’s Reuben Award nominees has been profiled by the New York Times.
An excerpt:
So Mr. Jaffee became a writer-artist. And in 1964 he had an idea. Playboy, Life and other magazines had their lavish color fold-outs, so Mad, he thought, [...]

Posted on: Mar 31, 2008,  Section: Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Comments: 1 Comment

News Briefs March 11, 2008

» Tom Richmond has posted his 3rd how-to article on the topic of caricature. As always – a wealth of information.
» Check out Cafe Con Leche creator Charlos Gary on TV.
» Ted Rall reacts to “Bad Cartoonist” in a very “modern, post-MacNelly style.” (See the March 9th blog post.)
» Mike Lynch has video of an [...]

Posted on: Mar 11, 2008,  Section: Cartoons, Editorial cartooning, Interviews, Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Magazine cartoons, Television, Comments: 1 Comment