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August 18th, 2025 | Posted in General
Don’t look now, but it’s another step on the road that was my work with MAD Magazine. This week we take a peek at the cover of MAD #20, the origins of which are a good lesson in professionalism as an illustrator. This was also the 150th issue featuring some of my work in it. As I’ve discussed in the last couple of “Tom’s MADness” episodes, MAD had essentially become a publication of reprinted material at this time. Issues featured only a new cover, a new Johnny Sampson “Fold In” and the very occasional new piece inside that was for some special reason or event.… READ MORE
August 11th, 2025 | Posted in General
Here we go with another of the stumbling steps along the path that is the look back at my work for MAD Magazine! This week we have a look at a kinda-sorta two pager for MAD #19, June 2021, written by Benjamin LeClear. Benjamin was (and still is) the senior manager and archivist of the DC Comics Library. After MAD #15 came out (see last episode), it really did look like it was over for me and the magazine. For the first time in 12 years, I had no assignment for the next issue. Or the next. Or the next. In fact is was nearly… READ MORE
July 21st, 2025 | Posted in General
Come see me at San Diego Comic Con this weekend at a NEW location: Exhibitor Table I-07! READ MORE
June 19th, 2025 | Posted in General
Every few years I collect my the drawings from my ‘Sketch o’the Week” feature into a book, and it’s time for yet another release. “Volume 6” is at the printer as we… uh… read, and is now available for presale in The Studio Store. This is the biggest volume yet, with 84 pages of goofy caricatures from the last 20 months or so. The books should land by mid-July, and all pre-orders will ship forthwith! I’ll have copies at San Diego Comic Con as well. READ MORE
June 16th, 2025 | Posted in General
A few weeks ago I was interviewed for the “Cartoon Everything” podcast with Chris “Meesimo” Meesey and Kelly Light. The episode just dropped today! You can watch it on YouTube or down below. I’ve known Chris for a very long time. He was just a kid when he came to work for me as a caricature artist for the operation I had at the time at Six Flags St. Louis, probably in 1995 or so. He’s since become an accomplished caricaturist, illustrator and comic book artist. I’d never met Kelly but she was a delight to talk with and her work is terrific. Anyway it… READ MORE
June 2nd, 2025 | Posted in General
My workshop in NYC is sold out, so if you were procrastinating on pulling the trigger you are out of luck! Or maybe not… You can get on the waitlist for any sold out workshop in case of a cancellation. There’s never any cost to be on a waitlist for any of my workshops, and no obligation to take a spot if one becomes open and is offered to you. If we have a spot open up we contact the first person on the waitlist and offer that spot to them. If they decline to take it we offer the spot to the next person… READ MORE
May 9th, 2025 | Posted in General
Earlier this year one of the stars of CBS’s “Ghosts”, Richie Moriarty, commissioned me to do an illustration of the cast for him to give prints to as a end-of-the-season gift. He asked me not to share the art online until after the season finale because most of the characters here are doing things that are part of the latest season’s storylines, and he didn’t want any spoilers revealed. That season finale aired last night, so here’s the art to did for him (he’s the boy scout with the arrow through his neck and missing hand in the lower right). Pen and ink on bristol… READ MORE
May 7th, 2025 | Posted in General
I’m headed to the Highlands (well, actually the Central Lowlands but it’s more fun to say “Highlands”) of bonnie auld Scotland to do a workshop this fall! This is not just my only workshop overseas this year, but my last one in 2025. If you want to join us in Glasgow this October 21-22, click the link here for all the details. This in the first workshop I will have ever done on weekdays (a Tuesday and Wednesday), but as the fall is peak wedding season in the UK/Europe, I thought it would give some professional caricaturists a chance to take it without having to… READ MORE
