Tom's Mad Blog
November 3rd, 2020 | Posted in News
Well, we didn’t hit any of them. We are actually VERY GRATEFUL to the 400 people who have backed our book project! THANK YOU BACKERS!! We are also very close to our third stretch goal, where Des and I add an 11th movie parody to the book! This one benefits everybody, because you get more guffaws for your greenbacks! As of this writing we are only a little over $1000 away from that goal! If you are still on the fence about backing CLAPTRAP, get off the furshlugginer fence, already!!! READ MORE
November 3rd, 2020 | Posted in News
Des and I are guests on the latest Chuckload of Comics podcast with host Chuck Lindsey! Watch it here!: READ MORE
November 3rd, 2020 | Posted in News
Desmond and I were guests on the Star Wars in Character podcast posted yesterday. We had a great chat with hosts Tim and Chris about our “Rise of Skywalker” spoof, MAD Magazine parodies in general, and our CLAPTRAP book project. Have a listen here! READ MORE
November 3rd, 2020 | Posted in General
Get. Out. And. Vote. Right. Now. READ MORE
November 2nd, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
With today’s announcement that Des and I will be doing a parody of Toy Story 4 for CLAPTRAP, here’s a look at some of the Pixar-related pieces I did for MAD. While MAD never did an actual full parody of any Pixar films, they did do a number of related features, some of which I did the art on. One was “Toyota Story” that Des wrote, from MAD #504. It makes fun of Toyota’s “Accelerategate” scandal from 2009. Here are the story pages: Another Pixar piece I did was a take on their “Cars” films entitled “Rejected Cars Characters” from MAD #467, written by Jacob… READ MORE
November 2nd, 2020 | Posted in General
When Des and I were putting together the CLAPTRAP campaign, we consulted a number of crowdfunding veterans for advice. We got a lot of great direction, and one of the things almost all we spoke to suggested was to have one really high end, ridiculously expensive “super perk”. It should be something crazy that probably wouldn’t get picked up, but that “high end” perk makes a fun bookend to the choices. So, Des and I came up with the “Megalomaniac” perk. This one allowed the backer to tell US what movie to spoof, with the only caveat being it was a major motion picture and… READ MORE
November 1st, 2020 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I’m really excited about your Claptrap project. I’m curious to hear more about how you and Desmond decided on which films to parody. I’m sure it was very collaborative, but, was there an instance where you each had at least one movie you absolutely wanted to do and asked the other to include? A: When Des and I started putting this together, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” was always the first one we were going to do. That was a total no brainer, since it was the ONLY major Star Wars movie MAD would not have done a spoof of. So that one… READ MORE
October 31st, 2020 | Posted in General
Sorry to hear of the passing of Sir Thomas Sean Connery at age 90 today. In my opinion hands down THE James Bond. That’s now four of the eight Bonds from my updated print above gone to the MI-6 headquarters in the sky. RIP, Mr. Connery. READ MORE
