Tom's Mad Blog
September 7th, 2013 | Posted in News
I’m on the last leg of our National Cartoonists Society USO tour and next week I’ll be posting details about our adventures in Afghanistan and elsewhere, but here’s a short video shot by the 102nd Mobile Public Affairs folks at one of the drawing events we did at Kandahar Air Field. Thanks to Spc. Jovi Prevot for doing this. The video is available to share through the DVIDS website: READ MORE
September 1st, 2013 | Posted in General
So I had all these grandiose plans to pre-post every day on the blog for the next ten days because I am once again off to undisclosed locations that may or not be in the middle east with a cartoonists USO tour… then I was up until 4 AM this morning finishing a MAD movie parody and am leaving for the airport in 15 minutes. So…. I’ll see you again on Sept 10th with many stories about what areas of my body I got sand into that I can’t get it back out of again. READ MORE
August 30th, 2013 | Posted in General
I’m desperately trying to wrap up this MAD movie parody before Sunday, when I am once again off to points unknown on a cartoonist’s USO trip. Have to resort to the Deadline Demon today. READ MORE
August 29th, 2013 | Posted in General
With all the recent issues with the website (now resolved) there was an interruption in the accessibility of some of the things I’m pimping… uh… selling right now. So, here’s a shameless rundown of some of the stuff which are limited editions that are not going to be available forever: Doctor Who Limited Edition Print I’m already 300 plus prints into this 450 limited edition print featuring all 11 official TV Doctors. For a measly $25 plus shipping you can get the original, hand signed and numbered print: Or for $35 (cheap) plus shipping you can get the print with the upcoming 12th Doctor Peter… READ MORE
August 28th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s SotW is “The Newsroom” star Jeff Daniels. There are a lot of interesting faces on that show, it might be fun to do a series of studies of the main cast. READ MORE
August 27th, 2013 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Clicky to embiggen… I’m crazy busy with travel in the next two months, so this workload is looming as being about three times what it is with my constrained drawing table time… Here’s what’s on the drawing board right now: Penthouse– More spot illustrations of celeb columnist Dave Navarro MAD– 7 page parody of a big summer movie for #524 Jeff Dunham– Illustrations for some retail products MAD TV Show– Doing a secret side project for these guys… “When We Went MAD” Movie Poster– Summers almost over so I need to get serious about this. I just finished the above Marlin Co. workplace poster, pencil… READ MORE
August 26th, 2013 | Posted in Monday MADness
In honor of my 100th appearance in MAD this latest issue, today’s Monday MADness is a look at my very first appearance in MAD from issue #399, November 2000: Clicky to embiggen… The article was called “Gadgets to REALLY Make Home Theater Like Going to The Movies”, written by Dick DeBartolo. It was on the newsstands in October of 2000. READ MORE
August 25th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: What was the worst freelance job you ever had to do? A: I’m not sure what you mean by “worst”. It could be one where the deadline was so short it almost killed me, or where the pay ended up being far less than the job’s worth ended up being, or where I had a hard time getting paid for the work. I’m going to take it to mean biggest nightmare to complete… a job that went south and kept going until it hit the Antarctic. There have really not been many of these in the grand scheme of things. After a while you… READ MORE