Tom's Mad Blog
January 11th, 2021 | Posted in MAD Magazine
We continue our Monday MADness chronological crawl through my work for MAD with a look at my eighth appearance in the magazine, a parody of the 2001 film “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” subtly titled “Lotta Crotch: Bazoom Raider”, written by Desmond Devlin and appearing in MAD #410, Oct 2001. This movie was of course based on the popular video game, and starred a young Angelina Jolie in the title role. Her casting was criticized by video game fanboys mainly because they didn’t think she had big enough breasts to play the famously chesty Lara Croft. That is, of course, ridiculous considering this was a fictional… READ MORE
January 10th, 2021 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I love the movies you’ve chosen for your Claptrap book. I know your supporters got to choose a few, but I’m just curious what your thinking was behind your choices? A: When MAD writer Desmond Devlin and I decided to do CLAPTRAP, we were thinking we would do a mix of classic/cult classic movies and new releases. We were going to do about a 50-50 split between older and new films. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was always the first one we were going to do because we wanted to complete the MAD parody series of all the Star Wars films. We figured… READ MORE
January 8th, 2021 | Posted in General
So many people liked the MAD cover commission I posted yesterday I thought I’d share another one I did for that same virtual NYCC event last October. Fans of the Twilight Zone will get the gag. READ MORE
January 7th, 2021 | Posted in General
Back on the last weekend of February I was sitting at my artist’s alley table at C2E2 in Chicago, listening to people discuss this new virus that was raging through China and speculating if it would affect us in any way here in the US. Oh, what innocent little lambs we were. Little did I know that was the last time I’d be at a comic con, or any other gathering of more than about 20 people, for the rest of 2020. We take so many things for granted in life, and it isn’t until we lose something that we realize it. With the advent… READ MORE
January 6th, 2021 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my Clint Eastwood as “William Munny” from the oscar winning movie “Unforgiven”. This is another example of the kind of sketches I’ll be doing in copies of CLAPTRAP for all “Schmendrick” or higher backers. You get to choose the movie the character I draw comes from (I choose the subject)! There was a limit of 100 of these, and there are only two left! Grab one while you can. Or you can just buy this original. READ MORE
January 5th, 2021 | Posted in News
One of the best things about being a backer of Desmond Devlin and my upcoming book of MAD-style movie parodies was that those at a certain perk level and above got to nominate and vote to chose three of the twelve movies we will be spoofing in CLAPTRAP. Well, the votes have been counted and the winners announced today! Joining the previously announced eight films to be ridiculed by Des and I will be: The Blues Brothers The Princess Bride Citizen Kane Those are some stellar choices! Well done, backers! Remember in order to by considered nominated movies had to be major release films that… READ MORE
January 4th, 2021 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Each Monday I’m doing an installment of a complete, chronological look at every job I did for MAD over my 20 year run for the magazine, complete with whatever stories, anecdotes, or milestones, might apply along with the full article. My next job for MAD was a seven pager called “MAD‘s 50 Worst Things About Sports” written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin for MAD #408, Aug 2001. This piece was my longest so far for the magazine, and the second that was considered the “lead” feature… meaning the cover was a tease for this particular article. Of course I did not know that at… READ MORE
January 3rd, 2021 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
I haven’t been participating much lately, but “The Daily Coronacature” I started back in march is still going under the auspices of Dave Snyder on Facebook and IGG. Today’s subject is rocker Dave Navarro. Back in the 2010’s I illustrated a sex advice column he wrote for Penthouse (well, it was half actual advice and half tongue-in-cheek humor). Here’s a gallery of some of the ones I did for that column in Penthouse. The “themes” of each illustration related to some subject Dave was talking about in his column. READ MORE
