Tom's Mad Blog
January 23rd, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We continue our series of caricatures of guys named “Buster” with old school film star Buster Crabbe, who portrayed many comic strip heros opn film including Tarzan, Buck Rogers, and of course Flash Gordon. Who could be next?Jazz musician Buster Bailey? Buster Brown (the blues singer not the comic strip character or the shoes)? Boxer Buster Douglas? U.S. Lt General Buster Glosson USAF (retired)? Actually I think we’ll stop at just these two. READ MORE
January 15th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch of silent film star Buster Keaton was inspired by a post from my pal Mark Evanier‘s sensational (and long running) blog News From ME, in which he waxed nostalgic about Saturday morning TV, Cheerios, and “The Buster Keaton Show”. As Mark talks about in his post, this show was shot (live) and aired in the early 1950’s on a local Los Angeles station. Reading Mark’s comments about the show and Keaton’s legacy, I realized I had never drawn the legendary comedian/filmmaker. This one was drawn primarily from the photo Mark posted in his article, which is of an older Keaton well past… READ MORE
January 13th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to another moronic MAD Monday, as we creep quietly towards the end of MAD‘s run as a magazine of new content in our look back my the work for the magazine. We’ve reached MAD #9, Oct 2019, the issue where its existence as the magazine we all knew and loved for (at the time) 67 years came to an end. Yes, MAD continued (and continues) to print a new issue every two months. Yes, there was new content in the next few issues after this one. However, this was the last issue that was distributed on newsstands. Starting with the next issue, you could… READ MORE
January 8th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
SotW is back for 2025 (although I did this one at the end of 2024). I’m going back to both my “Classic Rock” series and my hard rock roots with this week’s sketch of the late heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio. As a kid I was a real metalhead, listening to bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, AC/DC and the like. I liked Rainbow with Dio on lead vocals, but it was when he took over as the vocalist for Black Sabbath that I became a big fan. It was always hard to believe that big voice came out of that little guy (Dio… READ MORE
January 6th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to 2025! We are back to normal after the holidays with yet another step on the long and tedious road that has been a look back at my work for MAD Magazine. We are nearing the end of the line in terms of regular new material I did for the magazine. This “movie parody” appeared in MAD #8, Aug 2019. That issue is the penultimate one before MAD officially stopped newsstand distribution, which was really the beginning of the end of the MAD we all knew. I don’t consider this feature a movie parody in the true sense. A movie parody is aimed at… READ MORE
January 1st, 2025 | Posted in General
Don’t let this sourpuss fool you… here’s to a bright and shiny 2025! READ MORE
December 18th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I was definitely not driving a train high on cocaine when I did this week’s sketch, but it might have turned out better if I had been. We return to our “classic rock” series theme this week with a sketch of the late “Grateful Dead” frontman. I’m not sure how grateful he is about it, but he’s most definitely dead. I have to admit I have never really listened to “Grateful Dead”, although I have enough friends who love them to know it is “Grateful Dead” not “THE Grateful Dead”. I try to avoid the all-too-often pessimist’s sneering dismissal of pop culture phenomenons that they… READ MORE
December 13th, 2024 | Posted in General
Just in time for Christmas, I’ve scheduled two new workshops in 2025… Toronto and Seattle! There are still plenty of spots available in Las Vegas also, but only two left in Los Angeles. These workshops are unique experiences and make a great gift to the hard-to-buy-for artist in your life. Visit here for more info on what my workshops are all about! READ MORE
