Tom's Mad Blog
March 13th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Better late than never! “I just called… to say… I sketched you!” I’m taking an extended break from doing TV sitcoms cast sketches and doing some other subjects, so feel free to make some suggestions! Thanks to subscriber Stu Miller, who suggested I draw Stevie. I can’t believe I missed doing him back when I did my “Rock Icons” series. He’s easily one of the greatest musicians and songwriters in the history of pop music. An incredible talent. READ MORE
March 12th, 2024 | Posted in General
An unforeseen conflict has caused me to have to switch my dates for the Seattle workshop to Sept 7-8th. Same location, same schedule, different dates! Come join us Sketchin’ in Seattle in September! READ MORE
March 12th, 2024 | Posted in General
One more workshop to announce in 2024… Boston, MA! This is probably the last one I will be scheduling in 2024. My Oct-Dec is full of personal travel and events… so it’s unlikley I will be finding time to do any other workshops beyond the ones I have already scheduled for this year. But I still have spots available in Austin, Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago and Phoenix in 2024. READ MORE
March 11th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to Embiggen… Here we go with another moronic MAD Monday look back at my work for MAD Magazine! This week we get away from the world of movie and TV parodies when we look back at the art for a political piece called “The Last 100 Days of the Obama Presidency”, written by Jeff Kruse and Kenny Keil, and first appearing in MAD #542, Dec 2016. Jeff and Kenny were two writers I didn’t work with much during my MAD run. Jeff started writing for MAD just a few years before I started drawing for them, and was pretty prolific, doing both full articles… READ MORE
March 7th, 2024 | Posted in General
Announcing a new workshop location and date! I’m coming back to the Northwest for the first time since Portland in 2018. Grab your spot in my Seattle workshop while they are still available! READ MORE
March 6th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Click here if you are interested in this original sketch DYN-O-MITE! It’s yet another 70’s sitcom sketch with the cast of “Good Times”: Jimmie Walker, Ja’Net Du Bois, Bern Nadette Stanis, John Amos, Esther Rolle and Ralph Carter! “Good Times” is another Norman Lear show, spun off from “Maude” with was spun off from “All in the Family”… that’s a lot of spinning. Esther Rolle’s character Florida Evans was a housekeeper for Maude and was married to a NYC firefighter named Henry, but the characters and their family dynamic was changed considerably for the new show. They became poor and lived in a Chicago housing… READ MORE
March 4th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to another edition of Monday MADness, where we continue on our seemingly endless trek through my work at MAD Magazine. This week it’s yet another spoof of a show targeted at that huge MAD-loving demographic, HGTV viewers! Yes, I am still scratching my head over why we did a parody of a show like “Fixer Uppers” in 2016 when we ignored huge hits like “NCIS”, “Blue Bloods”, “Criminal Minds”, “Empire” and “The Blacklist”. However we can’t complain about MAD‘s MADdset writer Dick DeBartolo‘s damn funny script for this one… and frankly I didn’t mind ridiculing Chip and Joanna Gaines‘s show. We did it all… READ MORE
March 1st, 2024 | Posted in News
Geek Radio Daily is a long running Twitch/YouTube/Podcast show that is, oddly, not daily but nonetheless very entertaining. Hosts “The Wonderful Billy Flynn”, “Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit” and “Flynnstress” (missing was “Cinemistress aka Carol the Cat” had their 308th episode last night and appearing as guests were “Devilish Desmond Devlin” and “Contagious Tom Richmond” (I have a really bad cold) discussing CLAPTRAP and other things from the Geekosphere. You can listen to the audio version here (or wherever you get our podcasts from), or the Youtube version here or catch it on something called Twitch until that video self destructs after a certain amount of… READ MORE
