Tom's Mad Blog
November 20th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
May the farce be with you! It’s time for another brush with the dark side as we have a look back and my work for MAD Magazine. This week we look at the second of two pieces I did the art for in MAD #537, Feb 2016. This second feature is called the “ForceSonic 92-cm Lightsaber Manual”, and was written by Scott Maiko. I was pretty excited to get to do this feature because it was spoofing “Star Wars”, and I have been a Star Wars geek since I was 11 in 1977 and saw the original film 56 times in the local theater that… READ MORE
November 15th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Those were the days! If one had to pick a U.S. sitcom that was the most groundbreaking, daring, and yet hugely successful of all, “All in the Family” would be at or near the top of every list. Norman Lear‘s masterpiece of a show addressed subjects that the formerly staunchly uptight American audiences would never have dreamed they’d see on network TV: racism, homosexuality, rape, abortion, the Vietnam war, Women’s Lib, impotence, and so many more social and personal issues. It was a truly revolutionary show in this country. My sketch features the main cast, Jean Stapleton, Carroll O’Connor, Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers. This show was one of… READ MORE
November 13th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s another moronic Monday, and another look back at my work for MAD. This week we have a peek at one of “MAD‘s 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2015″. I did the art for Dumb Thing #13, which was about the bribery scandal involving the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). In May of 2015, more than two dozen FIFA officials and associates were indicted for what was revealed to be a more than two decade long scheme of accepting over $150 million in bribes, in part for the awarding of hosting rights to the World Cup. A bunch of people went to jail.… READ MORE
November 8th, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Nanu Nanu! It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time for our “Sketch o’the Week”! Shazbot! We continue our “classic TV sitcoms” series, now in the 1970s, with “Mork and Mindy” debuted in May of 1979, so it BARELY qualifies as a 70’s sitcom. However it was one of my favorite shows as a teenager and I get to draw whatever the hell I want for these weekly sketches, so here’s Robin Williams and Pam Dawber as the titular characters. “Mork and Mindy” was a spin-off of “Happy Days”, after a single episode featured Williams as Mork, an alien who planned to abduct Richie but was stopped by Fonzie. The… READ MORE
November 6th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s another MAD Monday, and we are one step closer to the end of this seemingly endless look back at my work for MAD Magazine. This week we get away from the world of movie and TV parodies and have a peek at a feature article called “Home Renovations: HGTV vs. Real Life”, written by the marvelously talented Teresa Burns Parkhurst and appearing in MAD #536, Dec 2015. Most people who are familiar with my work in MAD think first of the movie and TV parodies, and would assume the majority of the work I did for the magazine were those kinds of “continuity” spoofs.… READ MORE
November 2nd, 2023 | Posted in News
I’ve started planning workshops for 2024, and I have two I have lined up so far. I had so many people on the waitlist for my Orlando workshop last month that I have scheduled another one on Feb 17-18th. Check out the details here. I have also booked a workshop in a location I have not been before, Houston Texas! That one is taking place March 9-10th. You can see all the details here. There will be more coming in 2024! READ MORE
November 1st, 2023 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
The caricatures are hers and hers and his this week as we return to having a BRAND NEW “Sketch o’the Week” every Wednesday! We are also continuing our classic sitcom cast series which, if you recall, was on to the 1970’s. With the passing of Suzanne Somers last week I had to draw the original cast of “Three’s Company”, a sitcom which started in the late 70’s and went into the early 80s. Pictured are Somers, John Ritter, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley and Joyce DeWitt. Ms. Somers ended up getting written off the show in the 5th season because she demanded equal pay with male star Ritter, but thanks to… READ MORE
October 30th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to another Monday. It’s bad enough that it’s the start of another miserable work week, but you also have to be subjected to another episode of our look back at my work for MAD magazine AND on top of that it’s yet another spoof of a Marvel movie! However, as we are nearing the end of the line, we have this consolation… this is the last full and actual parody of a Marvel film MAD ever did. This was written by my partner in CLAPTRAP crime Desmond Devlin, and first appeared in MAD #535, Oct 2015. What’s that you say? This was not the… READ MORE
