Tom's Mad Blog
April 28th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here we go with another step on the sick and diseased road that was my work for MAD Magazine. This week we look back at one of the two pieces I did for MAD #11, February 2020. Written by Sarah Hutto, this piece was prophetic given the time of its release and considering today’s headlines. I will preface this by saying this is one of the pieces I did for MAD I was least proud of art-wise in the 25 years I have been doing work for the magazine. The issue that this was in came out in December of 2019, which was of course… READ MORE
April 23rd, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch subject needs no introduction. Truly one of the greatest guitarists who ever strummed the strings, B.B. King influenced and inspired generations of electric guitar players. A true legend. READ MORE
April 21st, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to another edition of Tom’s Monday MADness, the seemingly endless look back at 25 years of my work in MAD magazine, complete and unabridged! This week is part 2 of the work I did for MAD #10, December 2019. Part one was a parody of the TV show “The Handmaid’s Tale”. This second feature is a “part 2” of a sorts… the second (and so far last) of the “Xander and Kam” movie review features. Xander and Kam were supposed to be YouTubers who do a movie review show, allowing MAD to have a single feature that would contain multiple current film “spoofs”. The… READ MORE
April 17th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I am back to doing a “Sketch o’the Week” post here but also back to putting it a week behind my newsletter The Ink Stained Wretch. So, this sketch of the late Val Kilmer was seen by my newsletter subscribers last week, and they have already seen a new sketch yesterday, which blog/social media followers won’t see until next week, and so on and so forth. READ MORE
April 15th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD #43 drops today and it contains 16 pages of new material (including the cover and Fold-in) including the first TV parody since “The Manmaid’s Tale” in MAD #10, Dec 2019! Desmond Devlin wrote and I drew a four pag spoof of “Squid game”. Last month also had a number of pages of new content, including a short parody of film, “The Substance”. Above is the first page of Des and my “Squid Game” spoof. What? You want to read the full parody? Go out and buy a copy, clod! READ MORE
April 14th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I warned you I was going to stubbornly finish this pointless trek through my work at MAD magazine, even if it killed me and bored you to death as well. To that end, here we go with another chapter of this idiocy. This week we look back at what I thought might be the last TV show parody I would ever do for the magazine, but the issue that drops tomorrow proved me wrong (more on that later). This piece was a parody of the delightfully uplifting and light situation comedy “The Handmaid’s Tale”. This spoof was written by Tammy Golden and first appeared in… READ MORE
April 13th, 2025 | Posted in General
Thanks to everyone who visited and ordered a commission! Back to the studio! READ MORE
April 11th, 2025 | Posted in General
See you in October! READ MORE
