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Richmond reviews MAD Mag’s new iPad app
NCS President and MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond gives a play by play of using the new MAD Magazine iPad app. As usual, when Tom gives a review of a product, it’s quite detailed.
Posted on: Apr 4, 2012, Section: Magazine cartoons, Magazines, Comments: 1 Comment
MAD Mag now an iPad app
MAD Magazine cartoonist and NCS President Tom Richmond writes on this blog that MAD Magazine is now an iPad app. Today DC Entertainment and MAD Magazine announced the planned release of a new MAD Magazine iPad app complete with interactive features and exclusive content. The app is scheduled to be released on April Fool’s Day [...]
Posted on: Mar 30, 2012, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
New Yorker cartoonist Al Ross passes at age 100
From the New York Times: Al Ross, whose droll cartoons featuring married couples, bar habitués, anthropomorphic animals, philosophizing prisoners, art and publishing world denizens, anachronistic mythological figures and loyal Mets fans appeared in The New Yorker for more than 60 years, died on Thursday in the Bronx. He was 100.
Posted on: Mar 26, 2012, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Interviewed: Tom Richmond
Over at Tall Tale Radio Tom Racine interviews NCS President, MAD Mag cartoonist and author Tom Richmond and discuss the new NCS award for “Best Online Comic,” his trip to the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and his new book, “The Mad Art of Caricature.”
Posted on: Jan 25, 2012, Section: Magazine Cartoonist Bloggers, Magazine cartoons, National Cartoonist Society, Comments: 4 Comments
Check out: Tom Richmond’s wall of shame
When celebrities ask for original MAD Mag art from Tom Richmond he provides an oversized print of the art as published in the magazine and requests they autograph their name next to their caricature. He’s built up an impressive collection which he terms his Wall of Shame.
Posted on: Jan 13, 2012, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 1 Comment
Interviewed: AVClub talks to legendary Jack Davis
The AV Club has posted an extenstive interview with the legendary Jack Davis. AVC: What artists were important to you growing up? JD: Growing up, of course, Walt Disney. Donald Duck—the big feet—and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. And Harold Foster, who drew Prince Valiant, and he also drew Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ bit. [...]
Posted on: Dec 14, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
CNN spotlights MAD Magazine’s Al Jaffee
CNN profiles the career of MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee. Today Jaffee, who will be 91 in March, is known for his own contraptions, many designed during his long relationship with Mad magazine. There’s the Mad Fold-in, the magazine’s inside back page, which cleverly turns one Jaffee work into another by folding one portion over [...]
Posted on: Dec 5, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 3 Comments
Check out: Gag cartoons from Saturday Evening Post
Mike Lynch purchased an antique Saturday Evening Post and has posted scans of the cartoons from the June 30-July 7, 1962 edition. Check out all 16.
Posted on: Nov 22, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 2 Comments
MAD Magazine luminaries met up at SCAD
This last weekend was a rare event at the Savannah College of Art and Design. SCAD brought together several of the cartoonists from MAD Magazine: Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Paul Coker, Jr., Nick Meglin, ‘Duck’ Edwing, Sergio Aragones, Sam Viviano and Tom Richmond. The AP did a story covering the event with the angle of [...]
Posted on: Nov 14, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 3 Comments
Mankoff talks about this year’s New Yorker Cartoon Edition
Michael Cavna talks to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff about this year’s Cartoon Edition. Mankoff is describing the behind-the-scenes process of culling and curating The New Yorker’s annual Cartoon Issue (now on newstands and online). The issue offers not only an A-list collection of “funnies,” but also featured cartoons by such top talent as [...]
Posted on: Oct 28, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 0 Comments
Checkout: Cory Pandolph’s cartoon in New Yorker
Cory Pandolph, cartoonist for The Elderberries and creator of Bark Eater Lake and Toby, Robot Satan, sold a cartoon to The New Yorker back in June. The cartoon was published in this week’s edition. You can see the cartoon on The New Yorker’s website.
Posted on: Oct 12, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 6 Comments
Interviewed: Roz Chast and her career
Richard Gehr interviews here for The Comics Journal. GEHR: When did you first approach The New Yorker? CHAST: In April of ’78 I was still living at home with my parents, which was not good. I don’t think they wanted me there any more than I wanted to be there, but I didn’t know what [...]
Posted on: Jun 15, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 2 Comments
Al Jaffee’s The MAD Fold-In Collection released
File this one in the must-have category: The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010 Here’s Amazon’s description. Al Jaffee’s ‘Fold-Ins’, which have graced the back page of “MAD Magazine” since 1964, have become an icon of American humour, issue after issue, year after year, each fold-in requires the reader to simply fold tab A to tab B [...]
Posted on: Jun 14, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 3 Comments
Anton Emdin’s inking tutorial back online
Last week I directed readers to Anton Emdin’s inking tutorial, but he had to pull the post due to a conflict. That tutorial is now back online. Below is his warm up video:
Posted on: Apr 26, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 1 Comment
Roger Ebert wins New Yorker cartoon caption contest
Movie crittic Roger Ebert, who has entered the New Yorker caption contest regularly since it began, has finally won. Robert Mankoff writes about the win on his blog. Roger was being a bit hyperbolic when he claimed to have entered practically all of the contests since its inception. Out of a possible two hundred and [...]
Posted on: Apr 26, 2011, Section: Magazine cartoons, Comments: 2 Comments
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