Tom's Mad Blog
May 14th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Pink Floyd was one of those bands where I needed to be in the right frame of mind to listen to their music. In high school I usually needed my tunes to rock harder, but when in a contemplative mood Floyd was just the ticket. They refused to be put into a genre classification. Some songs were heavy metal and some rocked pretty hard but most were impossible to label… and why would you want to? While “The Wall” was the band’s Magnus Opus, and “Dark Side of the Moon” was their most successful and probably signature album, my favorite album was always “Wish You… READ MORE
May 9th, 2025 | Posted in General
Earlier this year one of the stars of CBS’s “Ghosts”, Richie Moriarty, commissioned me to do an illustration of the cast for him to give prints to as a end-of-the-season gift. He asked me not to share the art online until after the season finale because most of the characters here are doing things that are part of the latest season’s storylines, and he didn’t want any spoilers revealed. That season finale aired last night, so here’s the art to did for him (he’s the boy scout with the arrow through his neck and missing hand in the lower right). Pen and ink on bristol… READ MORE
May 7th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
…as Eddie Brock/Venom. “Eyes. Lungs. Pancreas. So Many Snacks, So Little Time.” READ MORE
May 7th, 2025 | Posted in General
I’m headed to the Highlands (well, actually the Central Lowlands but it’s more fun to say “Highlands”) of bonnie auld Scotland to do a workshop this fall! This is not just my only workshop overseas this year, but my last one in 2025. If you want to join us in Glasgow this October 21-22, click the link here for all the details. This in the first workshop I will have ever done on weekdays (a Tuesday and Wednesday), but as the fall is peak wedding season in the UK/Europe, I thought it would give some professional caricaturists a chance to take it without having to… READ MORE
April 30th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Superman. That’s it. Nothing more need be said. READ MORE
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
