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Tom’s MAD Blog

Blog of illustrator, caricaturist and MAD Magazine artist Tom Richmond. Chock full o' artwork, articles on freelance illustration, caricature, cartooning, tutorials on techniques both traditional and digital and other fun stuff.

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  1. A Rare Treat

    http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=2280

    Mark dispensing wisdom on this panel discussion An older picture of Mark, Sergio and me at an L.A. convention Many has been the time I have linked to, referred to and/or sung the praises of Mark Evanier’s News From Me blog. Mark is one of the best writers working in comics, especially on the humorous side, today. …

    6 hours ago
  2. Sunday Mailbag

    http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=2273

    Q: You make cross-hatching look so easy. Mine always ends up looking like a messy patchwork quilt. What’s the secret to good cross hatching? A: Well, thanks for the compliment but I don’t consider myself much of an expert on crosshatching. With me it’s an exercise in controlled chaos. …

    15 hours ago
  3. Minnesota’s Mr. Crayola

    http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=2266

    Don “Mr. Crayola” Marco has apparently been getting a lot of internet “press” in the last two years mainly from sharing via e-mail. My friend and fellow cartoonist Ken Alvine of Sioux Falls, SD sent me an e-mail about this artist because he was born here in my homestate. …

    2 days ago
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    Home Again, Home Again...

    http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_07_07.html#015491

    Back from Minneapolis. I'll write more in a day or two about CONvergence but I thought I'd tell you about today. I had lunch with my friend Tom Richmond, who's one of the star artists for Mad Magazine these days. As he explains here in his blog, he whisked me away from the con for a few hours of conversation and lunch at the Guthrie, a magnificent theater in downtown Minneapolis. Named not for Arlo or Woody but for Sir Tyrone Guthrie, the place is an architectural marvel with a grand river

    3 hours ago in news from me by evanier · Authority: 528
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    ZABLO'S ZONE

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    Happy 4th of July!

    2 days ago in ZABLO'S ZONE · Authority: 33
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    Friday Roundup

    http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/06/27/friday-roundup-2...

    : lessons from Capote It’s difficult to talk coherently about typefaces without some sense of the history of typography Nipplephobia : watch out, they’re coming to get you Books flying off the shelves in Spain PhotoShop line art trick : should work Second guessing Google : what makes a good favicon? The saddest post I have read in a long time .

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    News Briefs for June 26, 2008

    http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/06/26/news-briefs-...

    adapted to stage and television. The comic strip, which only appears only on his website, attracted the attention of Former BBC script writer Lawrence Gray liked the premise of a work-at-home father as the basis for a live action television series. » Tom Richmond’s MAD blog is celebrating its second anniversary. Congrats on a fine publication, Tom. » Retail creator Norm Feuti is working on a second strip. » Single and Looking (AKA Out of the Gene Pool) may have left newspapers, but fans can pick up a copy of

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    A nifty photoshop tip for working with line art

    http://www.dabbled.org/2008/06/nifty-photoshop-tip-for-worki...

    with scanned line art in photoshop a few weeks ago, and i finally got around to trying it on the drawing i'm currently working on. It works great! It even works great on the scanned pencil sketches that I like to do because I'm too lazy to ink them. Check it out..!

    13 days ago in Dabbled by DotatDabbled · Authority: 48
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    NCS, USO sponsors overseas trip for cartoonists

    http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/06/20/ncs-uso-spon...

    to visit U.S. veterans and injured soldiers at military hospitals

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    Cedric’s Blog-O-Rama!

    http://cedrichohnstadt.wordpress.com

    The front of the card is the character displaying a short message and my website. The back of each card (not shown) contains a quote from a satisfied client, my contact info, and a list of some of my more prominent past clients. I know some consider it amateurish for an illustrator to put actual artwork on his/her business card. Many successful artists I’ve met in the past keep their business cards surprisingly simple and plain. However, in this case I’m hoping that (a) the novelty of the idea and (b) the

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    43 Folders Alfa’s Home-Based Jobs Blog Brands of the World Decluttering Your Desk Fool for Five Freelance Switch Freelance UK Inkthinker Make-a-Flake Paradise Philippines Rob Cubbon Screw You! stock.xchng Tom Richmond’s Blog Vyoma’s Blog Words on the Page

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    iPhone Problem - Learn more about iPhone Problems

    http://www.iphoneproblem.com

    Shrygue wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt E-mail, as I said, works pretty quickly and is certainly not so slow that it is a problem. The true GPS is the one really covetous new feature. I’ll have to think about it. My iPhone is

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    The iPhone 2.0… worth it?

    http://www.iphoneproblem.com/2008/06/12/the-iphone-20%e2%80%...

    Shrygue

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