Tom's Mad Blog
September 30th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here we go with another moronic edition of Monday MADness, where we look back at my work for MAD Magazine. We are no on the second issue of the “new” MAD that had recently relocated to Burbank, CA in early 2018 with new VP of Editorial Bill Morrison and art director Suzy Hutchinson. This job was another throwback to an earlier concept MAD had done a few times… a single feature that incorporated several mini movie parodies in a sequence narrated by a movie critic. This updated concept was a play on social media/YouTube “content creators” who theater hop between films doing reviews without paying… READ MORE
September 25th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
In a rare break from tradition, the original of this sketch is still available in the Studio Store! This week’s “Famous Movie Moment” features Hollywood’s most famous chin, the late Kirk Douglas from the “I am Spartacus” scene from the 1960 movie of the same name. Well, actually this is not from THAST scene, but is just Kirk in the role. The film was directed by a young Stanley Kubrick, who took over after original director Anthony Mann was fired only a few weeks into the shoot. Douglas’s production company was producing the film, so they brought Kubrick on board after Douglas’s work with Kubrick… READ MORE
September 19th, 2024 | Posted in General
I’m a guest at the Art-Bubble Comic Arts Festival this weekend in Aarhus, Denmark! I’ll be teaching a children’s workshop on drawing caricatures, doing a presentation about MAD movie parodies, signing stuff and eating hot dogs. If you happen to be hanging around Aarhus this weekend stop on by! READ MORE
September 18th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Admit it… you know this one was coming one when the passing of the great James Earl Jones last Monday at the age of 93. Jones of course had an incredible career on both stage and screen, but will probably be best known as the voices of Darth Vader in the “Star Wars” movies and Mufasa in “The Lion King”, which doesn’t credit him properly for the many other memorable performances he did over a long career. Personally, I remember him scaring the crap out of me as “Thulsa Doom” in the original 1982 “Conan the Barbarian” movie opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was evil but… READ MORE
September 12th, 2024 | Posted in News
I just added another workshop date to the 2025 lineup… Los Angeles, CA! As usual, only 12 spots are available so don’t procrastinate on booking your spot lest it sell out on you. Get all the info and register here. READ MORE
September 11th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
“Throw me the idol and I’ll throw you the whip!” The opening scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” introduced the world to Indiana Jones in 1981, and movies were never the same. Harrison Ford was already a big star thanks to playing Han Solo in “Star Wars”, “The Empires Strikes back” and, of course, television’s immortal “The Star Wars Holiday Special”. But jumping from one hugely popular action hero to another (and back and forth), and ultimately another widely successful movie franchise, launched his career into the stratosphere. Just a year after “Raiders” he’d play Rick Deckard in another sci-fi classic, “Blade Runner”. He… READ MORE
September 4th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
What’s in the BOX???!! Here’s another sketch from my “Famous Movie Moments” series. “Se7en” was a groundbreaking but brutally disturbing 1995 crime thriller/horror movie that helped star Brad Pitt break out of his “pretty boy” typecasting and into more diverse roles. The end of the film’s “What’s in the box?” scene is a never ending internet gif/meme to this day. I do a video of me drawing these sketches every week, and paid subscribers to my weekly newsletter have access to them. Every once and a while I share that video with everyone, and this is one of those every once and a whiles: Subscribe… READ MORE
September 2nd, 2024 | Posted in General
…also known as the unofficial last day of summer and the final day of the Minnesota State Fair, where you can get nearly anything deep fried on a stick. READ MORE
