Tom's Mad Blog
February 11th, 2011 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
Kinda busy right now… here’s a couple of recent jobs: Penthouse spot illustration for Dave Navarro column: Click for a closer look… Workplace poster illustration- pencils, inks and final: Click for a closer look… Click for a closer look… Click for a closer look… READ MORE
February 10th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
On news stands on Feb 16th and in comic book shops today: MAD # 508 (April 2011) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Michael Gallagher, Jeffery Ford, Ward Sutton, Chris Houghton, Scott Nickel, Jason Yungbluth, Jeff Kruse, Hermann Mejia, Rick Tulka, Sam Viviano, Glen LeLievre, Todd Clark, Charles Akins, Garth Gerhart, Leonardo Rodriguez, Bob Staake) SAD MEN (Arnie Kogen, Tom Richmond) What We Really Learned from WikiLeaks (Barry Liebmann, Paul Coker) MAD’s Moronic Outtakes from Sarah Palin’s Alaska (Uncredited) A MAD Look At Murder (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Tom Luth) Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper) MAD Exclusive Excerpt: Justin Bieber’s Autobiography (Desmond Devlin, Scott Bricher) The MAD… READ MORE
February 9th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Our SotW subject this week is actor Adrien Brody… that nose is something else, but he has a lot of other features to work with: the long, angular face; the sad, baggy eyes; the thick, expressive eyebrows; the mop of unruly hair; the thin mouth. I watched the movie “Splice” in which Brody stars the other day. I found it very disturbing and not recommended IMO. Just weird in a sick and twisted way, but not the entertaining kind of sick and twisted… more the squirming and averting your eyes sick and twisted. READ MORE
February 8th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Today several sources are carrying an AP story on the next issue of MAD and it’s cover boy, Alfred E. Bieber. Due on news stands on February 22nd, the issue takes some shots at the Canadian singer including dissing his movie, his book, his music and, of course, the fact that he’s Canadian. 😛 I’ll publish a table of contents of the issue likely Thursday, in which I have a 6 page parody of a popular TV show. I can’t say the name of the show until I get the official okay from the guys at MAD, so I won’t MENtion it here until I… READ MORE
February 8th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Last night’s new episode featured a segment I worked on called “Malcolm in the Middle Earth”. Here are some of the characters I drew for the episode: READ MORE
February 7th, 2011 | Posted in General
It’s a good day to be a Green Bay Packer fan! Actually, every day is a good day to be a Green Bay Packer fan, but today is especially good. This season has been a wild ride. Congrats to the Packers! READ MORE
February 6th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I usually assume most artists are skinny or out of shape guys like computer nerds… but when I saw your picture you looked like a WWF wrestler. I workout myself and I was wondering if you could share with us your regiment and more importantly your diet and/or supplements. For instance I stick to a complex carbohydrate diet and I take creatine. I lift weights every 3 days yet I go all out. My main exercise are bicep curls and dips with a weighted belt. Also, I was wondering if you could share with us people’s reaction (such as fans or industry professionals) to… READ MORE
February 5th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
There is going to be a new book on the career and art of Jack Davis set to be released on Aug 17th. From the publisher: Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture is a gigantic, unparalleled career-spanning retrospective, between whose hard covers resides the greatest collection … in terms of both quantity and quality … of Jack Davis’ work ever assembled! It includes work from every stage of his long and varied career, such as: excerpts of satirical drawings from his college humor ‘zine, The Bull Sheet; examples of his comics work from EC, MAD, Humbug, Trump, and obscure work he did for other companies… READ MORE