Tom's Mad Blog
June 15th, 2024 | Posted in General
Last weekend The Lovely Anna and I travelled to Stockbridge, MA for the opening of “What Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine”, an exhibit of original art from the pages of MAD spanning the magazine’s entire 72 year history hanging at the Norman Rockwell Museum. I’ve been to a few exhibits of MAD art, and while they have all been good this one is by far the most comprehensive and complete. Usually these exhibits concentrate on certain eras of MAD, often the early Harvey Kurtzman comic book era or the Al Feldstein years where the format of the magazine is most familiar… READ MORE
June 12th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
It’s time for another “Famous Movie Moment” caricature sketch! This week’s moment features a young Clint Eastwood in the 1971 film “Dirty Harry” when he utters his famous line ““You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’. Well, do ya, punk?”. The film was a huge box office success and spawned four sequels. It is also often credited as inspiring a whole genre of films centered on an “unorthodox, violent, alienated cop” theme. READ MORE
June 11th, 2024 | Posted in General
If you watched the Sonoma NASCAR race event this past weekend you may have seen some of my work on display. TBS had me do a “NASCAR” version of the stars of “Impractical Jokers” using the same caricatures I did for last season’s key art, because James “Murr” Murray was the honorary Grand Marshall of the race. I did the car and the figures, they did the background. READ MORE
June 5th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here we go with another another “Famous Movie Moment” sketch! This week’s subject is the “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse” scene from 1972’s “The Godfather”. Everyone knows this scene. It’s one of the most famous lines in all of cinema history, spoken by Marlon Brando‘s character Vito Corleone. The movie was nominated for ten academy awards, winning three including “Best Actor” for Brando. Want to watch me draw the above sketch, along with running commentary? What are you, a masochist?!? Well, all righty then. Become a Premium Subscriber to my weekly newsletter! READ MORE
June 4th, 2024 | Posted in General
I’ll be appearing on 4C Comics LIVE tonight doing sketches and commissions to benefit the National Cartoonists Society Foundation! Join in here at 4 PM PT/7 PM ET: https://www.youtube.com/live/chDug6YevRQ READ MORE
June 3rd, 2024 | Posted in General
I taught a workshop in Atlanta this past weekend. We ended up with a little bit larger group than normal and there was a higher than usual number of pro caricature artists thanks to the participation of a number of artists from A.J. Jensen‘s The Toonheadz caricature company. It was a great group and we had a lot of fun drawing together all weekend! If you want to participate in one of my workshops this year, you are running out of time! Chicago and Boston are sold out, and I have only two spots left in Phoenix. The one in Minnesota I just added has… READ MORE
May 29th, 2024 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
It’s another “Famous Movie Moment” sketch, and this one needs more cowbell. In “The Deer Hunter”, Christopher Walken‘s character Nikanor “Nick” Chevotarevich endures a lot as a soldier and prisoner of war in Vietnam, and ends up killing himself in a game of Russian roulette in a Saigon gambling den. There’s a lot more to the story. It’s a brutal and tragic film. Walken won an Academy Award for his role. READ MORE
May 27th, 2024 | Posted in General
While many Americans spend their Memorial Day grilling burgers and brats in the backyard, or floating around on a lake or river enjoying beers and the unofficial start of summer, it’s important to remember the reason for the day off. That reason is to honor the members of the United States Armed Forces who lost their lives in the service of our country. Their sacrifice, and the sacrifices of all our military service members, is the reason we are free to grill those brats and raise those beers. Thank you. READ MORE
