Tom's Mad Blog
March 25th, 2014 | Posted in News
I should have mentioned Friday that a new batch of original art and other goodies got posted on the benefit auction for the Sakai family last week. Every Thursday they add new items, so if nothing strikes your fancy check back every week. The new batch includes some pretty awesome originals from the likes of Bruce Timm, Eddie Campbell, Dave Berg (an original “The Lighter Side of…”), Sergio, and lots more. My piece is not up for auction yet but I will let everybody know when it is. Go. Bid. Now. Help the Sakais. READ MORE
March 24th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at one of the craziest crowd scenes I’ve ever done for MAD– “MAD Exposes Who’s Thinking What at the Obama Inauguration” from issue #498, February 2009. This is the pencil rough I did to send to the MAD editors for review before I redrew the whole thing much larger, inked and colored it for the final. You’ll probably recognize a number of politicians, pundits, talking heads and other celebrities even in the rough, as I did take a stab at most of their caricatures even at this initial stage. The original final art for this splash is a… READ MORE
March 23rd, 2014 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: This really has nothing to do with art but more of a personal question. I was just wondering if you’re a bit of a celebrity in your town (or part of town) and if you get recognized or receive silly comments from people when you’re at the post office or pharmacy. Have you ever been “caught” perusing a Mad magazine at a store? A: Nope, no one around here has a clue what I do. Only our immediate neighbors know I’m a cartoonist, and only because they asked because they were afraid I was a drug dealer being that I was home all the… READ MORE
March 21st, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I’ve been blogging about the upcoming run of MAD variant covers of DC Comics titles all week as they were released on various websites (see the complete run here). I thought I’d show a little of the process involved in the creation of my variant cover for Batman/Superman #30. The concept: The guys at MAD had some pretty specific things they wanted with this cover… in fact they wanted me to do a sort of take-off of a previous cover of an issue of Batman: The basic gag was that, rather than holding a set of chattering joke-dentures, “Alfred/Joker” would be holding his actual teeth… READ MORE
March 20th, 2014 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Whoops, I was supposed to have posted this yesterday. Ah well… Here’s another actor from the series “House of Cards”, Robin Wright. I must say she plays a deliciously creepy and evil woman on this show. READ MORE
March 19th, 2014 | Posted in General
Batman/Superman #10 by me! More sneak peeks at the April series of MAD variant covers for 21 of DC’s New 52 titles. They must be getting to the bottom of the barrel to include mine (see above, courtesy of Herofix.com. Click on any of the images to be magically transported to the source of the exclusive for a look at the larger artwork. More from Herofix: Batman and Robin #30 by Mark Fredrickson Aquaman #30 by John Caldwell Batwoman #30 by Kevin Pope From Uproxx.com: Green Lantern Crops #30 by Ward Sutton Justice league of America #14 by Mark Stutzman Via The Nerdist: Justice League… READ MORE
March 18th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Harley Quinn #5 by Sergio Aragon?¬©s (colors by Tom Luth) Craveonline has a sneak peek at four of the 21 upcoming MAD variant DC comics cover: Harley Quinn #5 by Sergio Aragon?¬©s (colored by Tom Luth), Green Lantern #30 by Richard Williams, Flash #30 by Anton Emdin and Justice League #30 by Peter Kuper. Green Lantern #30 by Richard Williams Flash #30 by Anton Emdin Justice League #30 by Peter Kuper These join the earlier sneak peeks from Hermann Mejia, Al Jaffee and John Kercshbaum and and Rick Tulka and Tom Bunk from a few days ago, bringing the total early looks to nine! Mine… READ MORE
March 18th, 2014 | Posted in General
I just finished a big MAD parody job (can’t tell you what it is, so don’t ask) that had me tied in knots for the better part of two weeks, which means that today is catch-up day on all the stuff I had to ignore during my marathon. You know… stuff like bills, paperwork, emails… sleeping. One of the big things I have had to put on the back burner is signing, packing and shipping all those sketches and original art I put up for sale in the Studio Store in the last couple of weeks. My sincerest apologies for all those folks who bought… READ MORE
