'A Vampire Named Mel', Cimoc, Spanish-language version.
Tom Bunk was born in 1945 in Split, Croatia. Among his main graphic influences are painters like Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Otto Dix, James Ensor, George Grosz, Philip Guston, Jim Nutt, H.C. Westermann, illustrators like Albert Dubout, J.J. Grandville and comic artists like Robert Crumb, Will Elder, Benito Jacovitti, Saul Steinberg and Basil Wolverton.
Twenty years later, Bunk studied Stage Design and Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts in Hamburg, Germany. In 1973, he moved to Berlin, where he started executing humorous oil paintings. After having three successful shows, he then decided to become a cartoonist and an underground comix artist (1976). His work was printed monthly in PARDON (a satirical magazine similar to MAD), and in other European comic magazines and anthologies. He published 3 books of his comics and moved to New York in 1983.
'A Vampire Named Mel'.
There, he worked for RAW and the Topps Company, producing artwork for various trading cards, including 'Garbage Pail Kids'. He has been working for Mad Magazine since 1990, contributing cartoons on a regular basis. He also illustrates children's books, book covers, and high school textbooks. He also designs posters, draws cartoons, illustrations and comics for various German and American publishers, such as Byron Preiss, Ravensburger Verlag, Carlsen Verlag, Semmel Verlag and Weissmann Verlag. He also contributes illustrations to the bi-monthly physics magazine Quantum.
Bunk drew a homage to Robert Crumb in the collective book 'A Tribute to Robert Crumb' (Éditions 52, 2013). He also paid tribute to Antonio Prohias' 'Spy vs. Spy' in the collective homage album 'Spy vs. Spy:An Explosive Celebration' (2015).
Illustration for Mad.