Tom's Mad Blog
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
January 3rd, 2021 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: After 55 years of experience reading MAD movie & TV spoofs, I have an ability to pinpoint pieces as a Mort Drucker, Joe Orlando, Angelo Torres, Sam Viviano, or Tom Richmond – but only by analyzing a given piece “as a whole”. Whereas, to a casual reader, that ability might be limited to picking out Don Martin by a drawn head, or an Antonio Prohias nose, or an Al Jaffee leap in the air. Is there anything specific about your illustration style that YOU might consider as reasonably-recognizable clues that a given piece has been drawn by Tom Richmond? A: That’s a good question. It… READ MORE
January 1st, 2021 | Posted in General
2020 was a rough one, to say the least. Here’s to a better 2021! READ MORE
December 31st, 2020 | Posted in General
Happy final day of 2020! Just to make sure this awesome year goes out with an Alderaan-sized bang, Des Devlin and I released our full “Star Worse: Plagiarizing Skywalker” parody to all our awesome CLAPTRAP Indiegogo backers as promised today! If you backed our CLAPTRAP book at any level, you should be getting the entire nine page tour-de-farce as a PDF in your email inbox shortly! Here’s a sneak peek at a few panels from the parody. If you didn’t back our project, it’s not too late! You can still pre-order the book here, and get the full length Star Wars spoof PDF right away!… READ MORE
December 30th, 2020 | Posted in Daily Coronacature
Here’s my sketch of screen legend Janet Leigh in her role of “Marion Crane” from “Pyscho”. Yes, this is another sneak peek at the kind of sketches I’ll be doing in the “Schmedrick” level preorder of Des Devlin and my book CLAPTRAP. The “Schmendrick” level includes a sketch by me on a special sketch paper insert page in your hardcover copy of the book. Best of all thanks to one of our met stretch goals YOU get to pick which movie the caricature sketch comes from. This will be the one you get if you pick the movie “Psycho”. There are currently only 15 Schmendricks… READ MORE
December 29th, 2020 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I did this sketch of baseball great Rod Carew for my son-in-law Leif’s father as a Christmas present. READ MORE
December 28th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
While this feature posted today was my 6th appearance in MAD, it was actually the very FIRST piece I was ever assigned from them. “MAD‘s Cable TV Viewing Odds”, written by John Biederman (which I later came to find out is a pseudonym for MAD editor John Ficarra) , appeared in MAD #406, June 2001… almost a year after I originally turned in the job. So technically this was the very first job I ever got from MAD. It was assigned to me in early June of 2000. I was told it was originally slated for MAD #398, but I got a call from MAD art director Sam Viviano shortly after turning in… READ MORE
