Tom's Mad Blog
March 20th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We continue our new “famous blind black musicians” series this week with the late, great Ray Charles! Actually we really could do a series of famous blind black musicians if we wanted to. Ronnie Milsap, Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind John Davis, Art Tatum, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Blind Boys of Mississippi… that would keep me busy for a couple of months! I think we’ll cap it off with Brother Ray, though. This sketch is based on a caricature of him in one of the panels from “The Blues Brothers”… READ MORE
March 18th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
No one is happy that today is both a Monday and the day after St. Patricks Day, but we here at Tom’s MAD Blog are ready to make things even worse for you with yet another episode of our cringey chronological crawl through Tom’s work at MAD. We’ve reached the end of 2016, and that meant another year end “MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things” issue. I had two pieces in this issue, this one being one of those extremely rare instances of a political piece that didn’t have anything to do with Trump. This feature first appeared in MAD #543, Feb 2017 and… READ MORE
March 17th, 2024 | Posted in General
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all you Irish folks out there! This is my annual posting o’the Alfred leprechaun illustration I did years ago for a T-shirt for MAD/DC. But WAIT… here’s a sneak peek at something much more recent… Could this be an updated Alfred E. Leprechaun T-shirt? I’ll let you know when I’m allowed to let you know! READ MORE
March 13th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Better late than never! “I just called… to say… I sketched you!” I’m taking an extended break from doing TV sitcoms cast sketches and doing some other subjects, so feel free to make some suggestions! Thanks to subscriber Stu Miller, who suggested I draw Stevie. I can’t believe I missed doing him back when I did my “Rock Icons” series. He’s easily one of the greatest musicians and songwriters in the history of pop music. An incredible talent. READ MORE
March 12th, 2024 | Posted in General
An unforeseen conflict has caused me to have to switch my dates for the Seattle workshop to Sept 7-8th. Same location, same schedule, different dates! Come join us Sketchin’ in Seattle in September! READ MORE
March 12th, 2024 | Posted in General
One more workshop to announce in 2024… Boston, MA! This is probably the last one I will be scheduling in 2024. My Oct-Dec is full of personal travel and events… so it’s unlikley I will be finding time to do any other workshops beyond the ones I have already scheduled for this year. But I still have spots available in Austin, Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago and Phoenix in 2024. READ MORE
March 11th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to Embiggen… Here we go with another moronic MAD Monday look back at my work for MAD Magazine! This week we get away from the world of movie and TV parodies when we look back at the art for a political piece called “The Last 100 Days of the Obama Presidency”, written by Jeff Kruse and Kenny Keil, and first appearing in MAD #542, Dec 2016. Jeff and Kenny were two writers I didn’t work with much during my MAD run. Jeff started writing for MAD just a few years before I started drawing for them, and was pretty prolific, doing both full articles… READ MORE
March 7th, 2024 | Posted in General
Announcing a new workshop location and date! I’m coming back to the Northwest for the first time since Portland in 2018. Grab your spot in my Seattle workshop while they are still available! READ MORE
