Tom's Mad Blog
October 10th, 2023 | Posted in General
I’ve come up for air (almost) after finishing CLAPTRAP, and will be appearing at New York Comic Con this weekend! Look for me at table A-09 all weekend, where I will be doing selling my usual garbage and doing commissions including the return of the much asked about “Mock MAD Cover”. What, you won’t be at New York Comic Con? Giant sweaty crowds comic book geek not your scene? Fear not! I will be conducting a “Virtual Artist’s Alley Booth” here on my website coinciding with the dates and times of NYCC. Starting at 10 am on Thursday Oct 2nd, you can come here and… READ MORE
September 22nd, 2023 | Posted in News
The Comics Journal published a story about Desmond Devlin any my upcoming book of movie parodies, CLAPTRAP, the other day. The article featured a look at one of the pages of extra material from the book… this one page “Godfather” gag. CLAPTRAP is a 124 page hardcover book featuring twelve movie parodies and lots of extra stuff like this one pager! The printing process has begun! The book will be here soon! READ MORE
September 6th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
For the “Sketch of the Week” this week I’m sharing some caricatures I did for the upcoming documentary film “When We Went MAD”. A lot of people were interviewed for the documentary, or footage of them was being used, and a number of MAD artists were asked to do caricatures of the interviewees. There are the five people I was assigned (everyone did one of Bill Gaines). READ MORE
September 4th, 2023 | Posted in General
Labor Day is the unofficial last day of summer and also the final day of the Minnesota State Fair! I did this illustration years ago for a client project. Having visited the MN State Fair this year I can attest the message still applies. Enjoy the end of summer! READ MORE
September 1st, 2023 | Posted in News
I’m currently the president of the National Cartoonists Society Foundation, which is the charitable arm of the National Cartoonists Society. The NCSF is a 501 (c) 3 charitable organization that has several programs including the Milt Gross Fund, which provides financial assistance to cartoonists and their families who are experiencing hardships or emergencies, the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship, which is an annual grant going to a college student of cartooning, and the “Cartooning for Kids” program, where members draw for patients and their families in children’s hospitals and for underprivledged kids, providing art supplies and education. We also sponsor or help support cartooning events and… READ MORE
August 30th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This sketch of Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway and Joe Flynn from “McHale’s Navy” got a new life a couple of weeks ago when the author of an upcoming book about the history of that show emailed me and asked about using the art on the book’s cover. I did not think a pencil sketch was appropriate for a book cover, so we settled on a price for use of the image and for me to add gray washes to the drawing so it had more of a finished look. This will be on the cover of a “McHale’s Navy” book coming out sometime later this year. READ MORE
August 28th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Hooyah! It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for another off-target look back at my work for MAD Magazine. This week we shoot and miss with another MAD movie parody, this time of the film “American Sniper”, written by David Shayne and first appearing in MAD #533, June 2015. This was the issue of MAD that was guest edited by “Weird Al” Yankovic, so it was mandatory to include a cameo of Al in every feature. In this case David actually wrote him into the final panel, delivering the last line of the parody. The concept of this parody was to feature two opposing political… READ MORE
August 21st, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday! Time for another moronic look back at my work for MAD! This episode features a lost Hobbit movie parody… Well not really lost but not published in an actual issue of MAD either. While MAD did parodies of all three of “The Hobbit” films only two ended up in the magazine. The third was done as an original piece for a special “Loot Crate” edition of MAD. Written by Desmond Devlin, only Loot Crate subscribers (and collectors on eBay) got a copy of this 6 page spoof. Loot Crate, if you are not familiar, is a grab bag (okay… grab BOX) program where you receive a box full of… READ MORE
