Tom's Mad Blog
October 30th, 2025 | Posted in General
I’ve got my first few workshops for 2026 arranged! I’ll be teaching in cities I’ve never been before… Nashville and Salt Lake City. I limit these classes to 12 students, so there is plenty of one-to-one instruction and feedback and you really get to know your fellow artists. The dynamics of an in-person workshop like this are so much more effective than your typical online class. Video lessons are fine but there is nothing like total immersion, and drawing alongside others. If you are a beginner or hobby artist and are afraid you will feel like an imposter in a room full of Picassos, don’t… READ MORE
October 29th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week we do another in our “Classic Comedians” sketch with “Mr. No Respect” himself, Rodney Dangerfield! In a rare break from tradition, this original sketch is still available to purchase in the Studio Store! READ MORE
October 27th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
We are now deep in the MAD timeline where the magazine is basically 100% reprinted material, with only the cover and a Johnny Sampson Fold-In as new content. In the past year or two I got a chance to do a few covers, and this art for MAD #31, Jun 2023 is one of them. This issue was curated around a medical theme, featuring my art in spoofs of “Scrubs” and “Grey’s Anatomy” and lost of other pieces about doctors, hospitals, medicine, etc. Although she didn’t take credit for it MAD head honcho Suzy Hutchinson wrote this cover gag, and it’s a pretty good one.… READ MORE
October 26th, 2025 | Posted in General
Did you know that I have a YouTube channel? I’ve actually had one for a long time (18 years actually), but I don’t really promote it so maybe a lot of people don’t know I have one. I don’t post a lot of videos but every month or so I post one of my “Sketch o’the Week” videos that you would ordinarily only get to see if you were a paid subscriber on my Substack newsletter “The Ink Stained Wretch”. In these videos I draw my weekly sketch from start to (mostly) finish, and talk about my thoughts and process along the way. I just… READ MORE
October 25th, 2025 | Posted in General
I did my last full workshop of 2025 this past week in Glasgow, Scotland. It was the usual great group and fun time. I have a “One Day Wonder” mini version of the workshop next month on Sat. Nov 8th just north of Orlando, Florida, but that’s it for 2025. Look for announcements soon of some 2026 workshop locations and dates!! READ MORE
October 15th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This is one I meant to do back when I was doing my “TV Guide Cover” series… Art Carney, Joyce Randolph, Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, the cast of the immortal TV sitcom “The Honeymooners”. I did a SotW years ago of just Gleason, but the whole cast needed doing. READ MORE
October 6th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome again clods to another installment of the rapidly closing trail of travesty that was my work for MAD Magazine… Oh look! ANOTHER “Batman” assignment! If you’ll recall our last two episodes featured a Batman cover and a two page Batman gag feature from MAD #23. It’s a good thing I am well versed in all things Batman! It was almost a year previous I did those two pieces for #23. Since then, nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. Goose egg. Zilcho. It looked like maybe I was really done with MAD. Then the 70th anniversary of the magazine happened, and the beancounters in the accounting department… READ MORE
October 1st, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here’s one more classic comedian sketch, Mr. Warmth himself, Don Rickles! READ MORE
