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Sketch o’the Week- Kirk Alyn!

June 10th, 2015 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

You can guess what this is going to be a part of… READ MORE

MAD Magazine superfan Steve “The Kuhnster” Kuhn put this animation together of all my presidential caricatures. Pretty cool… thanks, Steve! Speaking of the presidential caricature series, the poster is all done and at the printers. Should be getting it next week sometime and it will immediately be onsale in the Studio Store. I’ll announce it here on Tom’s Mad Blog when that happens. READ MORE

Monday MADness- My Test Assignment!

June 8th, 2015 | Posted in Monday MADness

I know I’ve told this story before, but if someone was to ask me “what was the first piece you ever did for MAD?”, there are actually three answers. The first piece of art I ever had printed in MAD was a two pager called “Gadgets to Make Your Home Theater REALLY like the Movies” in MAD #399, October 2000. The first piece of art I ever did for them that they used for any reason was something called “Presidential Survivor”, and was used on the MAD website (back when they were first doing original content on it) in August 2000. My first official paid… READ MORE

Sunday Mailbag- Favorite/Least Favorite Spoofs?

June 7th, 2015 | Posted in Mailbag

Q: What’s your favorite and least favorite movie and/or tv show you’ve drawn a spoof of? A: I have to separate those into the two categories, TV shows and films, for a complete answer. One caveat: my choices would not necessarily reflect how I felt about my work on the spoofs in question… what I would consider my best work might not (in fact does not) coincide with what I consider my favorite and least favorite shows and film I’ve drawn the satires for. Mostly my choices are based on a balance between how much fun I had doing the job, how much I either… READ MORE

Ich bin in Deutschland Ausgeraubt

June 5th, 2015 | Posted in General

Wow, two blog posts headlines in German in a row? The reason behind this one is not as pleasant as yesterdays. Right now The Munich Comic Festival is going on in, you guessed it, Munich, Germany. This year they are giving their lifetime achievement award, called the “Peng!” to MAD artist Tom Bunk… a very deserving and fantastic cartoonist. The frestival is the second largest of its kind in Germany, and boasts a lot of publishers in a huge book fair, professional comics artists doing workshops and signing autographs/sketching, and various presentations and lectures on the artform and the industry. Sounds like a great event.… READ MORE

Ich bin ein MAD Leser? Not in Australia…

June 4th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Number One Son Tom recently returned from a three week college choir tour of Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, and he brought me home this issue of the German MAD magazine! MAD still has a few foreign language editions out there (though not as many as they used to have), and the German MAD is one of them. The way these work is the foreign edition licenses the MAD name and format, and gets a certain amount of content from the U.S. version of the magazine. They translate that into their language and then fill the rest of the issue with MAD-flavored work but… READ MORE

Presidential Caricatures #24- Grover Cleveland!

June 3rd, 2015 | Posted in Presidential Caricatures

Since I am doing a poster of all my presidential caricatures, I had to do a real one of Grover Cleveland for his second, but non-consecutive, term. So, here is the real final caricature of this series… at least until 2016. READ MORE

What, Me Wanna Banana?

June 2nd, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine

Sneak peek of what I assume is a Mark Fredrickson cover for the next issue of MAD, due out later this month. I did the art on the parody of the Showtime series “Ray Donovan”. More when allowed… READ MORE