Tom's Mad Blog
November 2nd, 2022 | Posted in General
Talk about killing two werewolves with one silver bullet! Our “Sketch o’the Week” both continues our series of classic TV detectives (or investigative reporters) AND fits a halloween theme! Darren McGavin‘s “Kolchak” chased down all manner of supernatural creatures in his short lived but much beloved TV movies/series “The Night Stalker”. “X-Files” creator Chris Carter cited Kolchak as a “tremendous influence” on his show. “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” has become a cult classic in syndication. READ MORE
October 31st, 2022 | Posted in General
Since witches and wizards are out tonight, it’s perfect timing to share this parody of the last of the Harry Potter movie spoofs to appear in MAD. This parody of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” appeared in MAD #507, February 2011, and was written by Desmond Devlin. MAD did parodies of all eight Harry Potter films, including the final “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”. All were written by Desmond. Mort Drucker did the art on the first spoof “Harry Plodder and the Sorry-Ass Story” in black and white back in MAD #412, Dec. 2001. I did the art for… READ MORE
October 26th, 2022 | Posted in General
Copping out this week due to deadlines and stuff. In honor of Halloween, here’s an old one of Elsa Lanchester as “The Monster’s Bride”. Brush pen and marker. READ MORE
October 24th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
THE HALLS ARE ALIVE, WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC (…AND THE SMELL OF ARMPITS)!! Get ready to duck those flying slushies, Gleeks! We’re back at it this week with another tone deaf performance of a moldy oldie of a look back at my work for MAD Magazine. Today we revisit MAD‘s parody of the TV show “Glee”, written by the great Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #506, December 2010. This show was a favorite of my wife, The Lovely Anna, and my kids. In fact this parody is rife with cameos of people I know, including my kids in the splash page. On… READ MORE
October 22nd, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I just got back from attending the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Bowness-on-Windemere in the United Kingdom. I brought a stack of MAD‘s 70th Anniversray issue (no. 28) to sign after doing a talk, and brought the leftovers home. So, I have a few to offer for a ridiculously inflated price in the Studio Store! I’ll even deface it with my signature! MAD #28 features 20 pages of new content, including Desmond Devlin and my spoof of the film “The Batman”. Get them while they last… READ MORE
October 19th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Who loves ya, baby? We continue with our series of caricatures of famous TV detectives with the guy who made bald cool again, Telly Savalas as “Lt. Theo Kojak” from “Kojak”. I have to admit I’ve only seen snippets of scenes from this show, but the character is one of the icons of television detective dramas. Plus he’s bald!! READ MORE
October 18th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
We’re going to take a break from the seemingly endless monotony of the weekly look back at my work from MAD and share something I wrote for my newsletter “The Ink Stained Wretch” (which you should be subscribed to!). Last week we took a peek behind the curtain of how MAD movie parodies were done “back in the day” as far as obtaining references from the films before we all had instant access to thousands of images with a few keystrokes. I’ll be the first to admit that my job doing movie and TV parodies is a lot easier today than when Mort Drucker, Jack Davis,… READ MORE
October 13th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Back in 2019 MAD stopped publishing original content (mostly), and I thought I had perhaps done my last movie/TV parody for the magazine. Prior to that I had pretty freely sold my original MAD artwork, both here on the website and at Comic Cons. It occurred to me after the “no new material” announcement that I wasn’t going to be making any more of these for MAD, so I basically stopped selling my originals. I thought it best to hang on to them. That said I thought it was time to make some of these originals available for sale, and as subscribers you all get a first look at what’s… READ MORE
