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 Some of Tom's earliest works are in "Married... With Children", "NOW" comics, and the miniseries The Coneheads for Marvel Comics. In the late 1990's he did some breif work for Cracked magazine but then began workig for MAD magazine. He is now a major contributor to mad magazine. Tom Richmond worked at an amusment park to make money when he was younger. Tom Richmond is a freelance artist and must find work for himself. Some ways that he does this is by advertising his work or going around to a bunch of companies that might be interested in his work. He does a lot of work for mad magazine (mainly caricatures) but he also works for other companies. Tom Richmond is awesome

I got a lot of this information from Tom himself in an interview... or more a speech from him to a small group of us students. I also got some of the info. from the interwebz.

Tom Richmond was born on May 4th, 1966 in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

To pay for his college education, Tom got a summer job drawing caricatures at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. In 1988 he married Anna Voss, he met her while he was in school. In total Anna and Tom had four children, Elizabeth, Victoria, Grabrielle, and Thomas.

In 1998 Tom joined the National Caricaturist Network (NCN), which is an organization of professional caricaturists. He recieved several awards from the organization, such as the Golden Nosey, which is for caricaturist of the year, in 1998 and 1999.  He served as president of the NCN for two years.

Tom continues to do freelance art for many other people that want his work, and was honored with an NCS divisional Reuben Award for his Advertising Illustration in 2003 in an episode known as the "hanging chad debacle".

He attended Art College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he learned nothing about cartooning. He got a summer job drawing at Gurnee, Illinois to pay for his college education. Here he learned an important life lesson: **__ it was possible to get paid to make fun of people __**. Some of Tom's earliest works are in "NOW" comics, and the miniseries. In the late 1990's he did some breif work for Cracked magazine but then began working for MAD magazine.

In 1999 he joined the National Cartoonists Society, because of the support of MAD Magazine. He continues to do freelance art, and was honored with an NCS divisional Reuben Award for “Advertising Illustration” in 2003 as the ‘hanging chad debacle’ that changed the way the NCS conducts for said awards.

Tom works in a studio in his home in Burnsville, Minnesota, where he lives. Tom loves all things “Batman” and is a self-proclaimed comic book geek. He is also an amateur bodybuilder.