Tom's Mad Blog
October 25th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Q: What were some of your favorite MAD parodies to work on? A: I am a big Batman fan so the parodies I did one of the three Christopher Nolan movies are definitely at the top of that list: As far as TV shows, I loved doing Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Stranger Things. There were only a handful of movie/TV parodies I disliked doing. Most of the time these were the funnest, best projects to work on not matter the subject. Thanks to Minebot45 (via Reddit) for the question. If you have a question you want answered for the mailbag about cartooning, illustration, MAD Magazine, caricature or similar, e-mail… READ MORE
October 24th, 2020 | Posted in General
Earlier this month I released my “updated” James Bond caricature print “Shaken Not Stirred”. It was updated in that I added new caricatures of the two “unofficial” Bonds (meaning they were outside the “Broccoli” Bond film series) Barry Nelson (1954’s TV show “Climax!”) and David Niven (1967 spoof movie “Casino Royale), and I also did all new caricatures for both Sean Connery and George Lazenby, as I had grown to dislike the previous ones. The other four, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig were just slightly revised (removed the “wingtip” collars on their tuxes, which Bond aficionados assure me Bond would never… READ MORE
October 22nd, 2020 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
I’ve done a lot of work for superstar comedian Jeff Dunham over the years, from illustrations for his products to helping design some of his dummies. I did this logo/letterhead illustration for Jeff earlier this year. READ MORE
October 21st, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my drawing of today’s “The Daily Coronacature” subject: Sting! I almost drew him in the famous Dune codpiece, but then I came to my senses. READ MORE
October 20th, 2020 | Posted in General
Since Des Devlin and my book project CLAPTRAP is successfully funded, the next thing we’re apparently supposed to do is set some “Stretch Goals”. These are higher funding goals that, if reached, means we add or do more stuff for the book. The great thing about stretch goals is that if you are already one of those special people who have contributed to the book, you will benefit from our reaching these goals without doing anything at all! Well, that’s not exactly true. What we need our backers to do is continue to share our campaign far and wide, so it gets in front of… READ MORE
October 19th, 2020 | Posted in Monday MADness
This was one of my favorite movie parodies from the short lived “Burbank MAD” era, written by my CLAPTRAP collaborator Desmond Devlin! READ MORE
October 18th, 2020 | Posted in General
Q: How did you first get into MAD? A: I used about 60 feet of rope, a glass cutter, and a crowbar. Just kidding, my road getting into MAD was both a long and a short one. It was long when you consider the time between my first showing my work to a MAD editor and when I got my first assignment (about 10 years), and short if you consider how quickly I ended up with that first assignment after really getting serious about pursuing work with the magazine. Like many American boys I had a time when I was really “into” MAD Magazine. This… READ MORE
October 16th, 2020 | Posted in News
Another thing I did for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival this past weekend was a one hour(ish) virtual mini-workshop. For anyone interested in my upcoming online multi-video caricature workshop, this is a little peek at some of what that will be all about. NOTE: This is NOT one of the actual videos from my virtual workshop. Those are still in the works and will be professionally shot and edited, multi-camera videos. This was a live, Zoom-based event. You can watch it here: READ MORE
