Tom's Mad Blog
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
August 28th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
HEEEERRRRE’S JOHNNY!! Our “Famous Movie Moment” is from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film masterpiece “The Shining”: Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence. READ MORE
August 27th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This cover I did for a MAD special issue dropped last week. The Barnes & Noble folks always do a quick animated version of these for their promos, so I have to create everything on layers for that purpose. Here’s a link to the animated version. READ MORE
August 26th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to another edition of Monday MADness, where we continue or seemingly endless trek through the dreck that was my work for MAD Magazine! Do not despair! Sadly, this dreck trek is far from endless, and we are starting to near the end. But first, we revisit the first issue of the MAD Magazine “reboot”, which was the first issue produced entirely by the new Burbank based staff and which featured not one but two full length spoofs with art by me. We took a look at the first one last week, a parody of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” that appeared near the front of… READ MORE
August 21st, 2024 | Posted in General
In a rare break from tradition, this original sketch is still available in the Studio Store! FOOD FIGHT! John Belushi had a tragically short career in film (and life). He was only a headliner in five films, and two of them were major duds (“Continental Divide” and “Neighbors”).”1941″ was bizarre and his unhinged WWII fighter pilot didn’t have much screen time, but he made the most of that one. “The Blues Brothers” is certainly the high point of his brief cinematic career, but his turn as John “Bluto” Blutarsky in “Animal House” is classic. The “food fight” scene is on many “Top 100 Movie Scenes”… READ MORE
August 19th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Well kids, we are now in to the last days of MAD on our excruciatingly long journey through my work with the magazine. At this point in our timeline (early 2018) the New York version of MAD has packed up their veeblefetzers and rode off into the sunset, and the Burbank staff has fired up their poiuyts and started over with a brand new MAD #1. I did the art for not one but TWO full length parodies, one of a movie and one of a TV show (with a little throwback fun thrown in). The first feature that I did that appeared in MAD… READ MORE
