Tom's Mad Blog
January 30th, 2022 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: For your most recent MAD cover (issue #23), did MAD tell you to draw in your older style? I noticed that it resembles a lot of your early MAD work. The line width, colors, and shading kind of resemble your earlier MAD work, I’ve noticed that’s the style in many of your older assignments. A: Here’s the cover in question: No, MAD didn’t ask me to work in anything other than my usual style. Actually I am not quite sure what you are seeing in this that seems like an “older” version of my work. To me my earlier MAD stuff looked stiff and… READ MORE
January 26th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Like so many people, we in the Richmond household were sad to hear of the passing of actor and comedian Bob Saget. Bob is kind of a superstar around here because my oldest daughter The Animated Elizabeth, loves “Full House” and watches the show on her TV and iPad a lot, especially the earlier seasons. Elizabeth is 32 and autistic, and her videos are something that comfort her. She likes watching them over and over, although she has several hundred in her library, mostly Sesame Street, Barney and other kids video series. “Full House” is one of the few typical TV shows she likes and watches.… READ MORE
January 25th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Better late than never this week… it’s time for another installment of our look back at my work for MAD Magazine! This week we revisit the parody of what was then a brand new TV show called “Grey’s Anatomy”, written by Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #472, Dec 2006. Let’s get to the spoof… stat! For some reason all my sketches and process stuff for this spoof is missing, so I have no pencils or anything to share but the final art. I’ve no idea what happened to all those images. The last panel of the page above is interesting because the character… READ MORE
January 19th, 2022 | Posted in Classic Rock Sketch Series
This week’s sketch is musician, composer, songwriter and actor Tom Waits. Oh sure, he’s a multiple Grammy winner, was named one of Rolling Stone’s “Top 100 Songwriters of All Time” and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame… but to me he’ll always be the bug-eating R. M. Renfield in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”! READ MORE
January 17th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday! You know what that means… time for another revolting episode of our long and winding stroll down the road that is my work for MAD magazine. MAD #471, Nov 2006 marked the second time I had multiple pieces in the same issue, and the first time I contributed anything to “The Fundalini Pages”. Back in 2004 MAD added a feature in the front of the magazine called “The Fundalini Pages”. It appeared immediately after the “Letters and Tomatoes” section and consisted of usually four to six pages of short form features like comic strips, single panel gag cartoons, all text pieces, photo gags,… READ MORE
January 16th, 2022 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I love your work but I really wish you would attach a name to your caricatures, they look so sweet but I’m not sure who some of your caricatures are depicting. I usually do identify who my caricatures are depicting when I post them online either in the post title or in the description copy. However I almost never write the name of the person being caricatured as part of the actual artwork. I figure if the viewer can’t figure it out then A) they are not familiar with the subject or B) it’s a bad caricature. Either way writing the name of the… READ MORE
January 12th, 2022 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is a young Bruno Mars. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. This one is a little smaller than my usual sketches so it’s also a little cheaper! READ MORE
January 10th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday, and that means another tasty episode from our ongoing menu of my work for MAD Magazine. For this main course, all I can say is if you can’t stand the %$#&@ heat then get out of my %$#!*& kitchen! It’s back to “reality” TV with MAD’s parody of the foul-mouthed Gordon Ramsey and his chef competition show “Hell’s Kitchen”. This spoof was written by MAD’s MADdest Writer Dick DeBartolo and appeared in MAD #470, October 2006. I can’t remember if the deadline on this one was really short, but these “roughs” are about as rough as they ever got for me. I had… READ MORE
