Tom's Mad Blog
November 15th, 2020 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Did you have the chance to meet Don Martin? He was a bit of a hero of mine when I was a kid in the seventies. Have you met many of the earlier “Usual Gang of Idiots”? A: Don Martin was also one of my favorites as a kid reading MAD in the 70’s! Sadly, no, I never got to meet him. He left MAD in 1987, so he was long gone by the time I started with MAD. In fact, he passed away in early 2000, just a few months before I got my first MAD assignment. A number of the Usual Gang… READ MORE
November 14th, 2020 | Posted in Freelancing
I did these Donald Trump “postage stamp” illustrations for a client this fall. They were supposed to be used by “The Lincoln Project” somehow, but I don’t think they ever did whatever they were planning on using them for. Clearly it was some kind of commentary on how the Trump administration was messing with the U.S. Postal Service. READ MORE
November 13th, 2020 | Posted in General
… what could possibly go wrong? READ MORE
November 12th, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Back in 2018 I did the pencils/inks on this 48 page comic for Sitcomics called “Z-People”. It’s a humorous story about a zombie apocalypse. Here’s the cover, an alternate cover and a few sample pages. Written by Darrin Henry. READ MORE
November 11th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Better late than never today. Couldn’t resist drawing Holly Hunter as the other half of the “Raising Arizona” happy couple to go along with last week’s Nicolas Cage! READ MORE
November 11th, 2020 | Posted in News
With only 10 days to go before the end of our IndieGoGo campaign for CLAPTRAP, Desmond Devlin and my book of movie parodies, it’s a bit of a… uh… STRETCH to think we can reach either of these two last second stretch goals. Maybe it’s just idiotic. But, we weren’t called “The Usual Gang of Idiots” for nothing! Stretch Goal #4: If we hit $60,000 in funding we will ADD SIX MOVIE POSTER SPOOFS! Des and I will put together six parody movie posters from six films we are NOT spoofing in the book. Added content for all! Stretch Goal #5: If we hit $64,000… READ MORE
November 10th, 2020 | Posted in General
Desmond and I revealed another sneak peek from our upcoming book of movie parodies CLAPTRAP on the campaign page today, and the subject is the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock horror classic “Psycho”! There’s plenty more of this parody to come after this splash page… but you’ll have to buy our book to read it!! This one was our second (and final) “Megalomaniac” backer choice. Backers at the Megalomaniac level got to choose a movie for us to spoof, get drawn into the parody and they get all the original art, plus our undying gratitude. You can read all about who our second Megalomaniac is and why… READ MORE
November 9th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In October of 2000 MAD was putting together it’s annual “MAD 20 People, Events and Things” issue and I was assigned the art for the obligatory page making fun of the presidential election of that year, George W. Bush versus Al Gore, written by Desmond Devlin. The issue was going to press on Nov. 8th, the day after the election. Not knowing who was going to win, I was asked to do two versions of the image, one with Bush being sworn in and one with Gore, showing the appropriate despondent other candidate and new first lady as well. Here were the images I did: Since the print date was… READ MORE
