Tom's Mad Blog
July 24th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Not even San Diego Comic-Con can keep the moronic mess that is Monday MADness down (but it does delay it several hours). This week we look at the second piece I did that appeared in MAD #531, Feb 2015. I originally did the art on this one page gag piece for MAD back in 2014 for their website, turnaround time 14 hours. That was rare thing back then, but a precursor to the new MAD website where they did quick turnaround gag cartoons all the time. Writer uncredited, which means one of the staffers wrote it. MAD ended up printing this in issue #531. Here’s a look at the pencil (ok,… READ MORE
July 17th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Giddyup, cowboy! It’s MONDAY! Time for another rootin’, tootin’ look back at the steaming pile of cow $#!t that was my work for MAD Magazine! This week we wrap up 2014 with another piece from MAD’s annual “20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things” of the year. We clock in at number 14 with a rare fully digitally painted piece, written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and first appearing in MAD #531, Feb 2015. There’s not much to discuss here. This is a spoof of the movie poster for the Seth McFarlane film “A Million ways to Die in the West” ridiculing Cliven Bundy and… READ MORE
July 12th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
It’s the big one!!! I’m comin’, Elizabeth!! It’s back to the 1970’s with our sitcom series, this week featuring one of my all time favorites, Demond Wilson and Redd Foxx of “Sanford and Son”. I was surprised a few years ago to learn that “Sanford and Son” was not an original show, but an American remake of a British show called “Steptoe and Son” from the early 1960s. The BBC show was about a grumpy old man and his son who ran a struggling old junkyard/salvage business. “Sanford and Son” came about because of the success of another American sitcom that was adapted from a British show. “All in… READ MORE
July 10th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Wake up and hit the showers, jailbirds! It’s another MAD Monday, And that means it’s time for another look back at the hard time in the hole that was my work for MAD Magazine. Don’t worry, you are not really incarcerated serving life in a hellhole of despair and misery… it just feel that way every time you see these posts. Last week we looked at a spoof of a TV show that was among my least favorite to have done for MAD. This week it’s a 180 degree swing, with a gander at one of my all time favorite MAD jobs. Here’s MAD‘s parody… READ MORE
July 5th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Due to the holiday we’re taking a week off from the “Sketch o’the Week”. I lieu of that, I thought this illustration I did as a demo for an illustration workshop I taught back in 2020 was a suddenly relevant piece of art to share! It’s real watercolors and everything!! READ MORE
July 3rd, 2023 | Posted in General
May your 4th of July be filled with family, friends, fireworks, and plenty of propane! READ MORE
June 28th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
As promised (or threatened depending on your perspective) we are moving on to caricature sketches of classic 1970’s sitcom stars, starting with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman of “The Odd Couple”. I meant to mention with last week’s “Gilligan’s Island” sketch the timeless question that fans of that show have been asking themselves for decades… “Mary Ann or Ginger?” Well the Odd Couple has a similar conundrum… “Tony Randall/Jack Klugman or Jack Lemmon/Walter Matthau?” Okay… not exactly the same connotations but the point is those are two distinct camps when it comes to fans of Felix and Oscar. Randall and Klugman played the duo in the long running TV series,… READ MORE
June 26th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to Monday, and another edition of the least inventive ongoing blog series ever, a chronological crawl through my work at MAD Magazine! Speaking of inventions, this week we look at another another uninventive TV show about inventors and investors, “Shark Tank”. It’s uninventive because it’s based on the Canadian show “Dragon’s Den” which is in turn a rip off the the Japanese show “Money Tigers”. This spoof was written by MAD‘s MADdest writer Dick DeBartolo and first appeared in MAD #529, Oct 2014. In a rare turn of events, I have a saved scan of the finished inks on this splash, before coloring… For… READ MORE
