Tom's Mad Blog
October 29th, 2020 | Posted in News
We are just a little over three weeks from the end of our CLAPTRAP IndieGoGo campaign, so Des and I have decided to stop being coy about which movies are going to be spoofed in the book. Since new movies are not really a thing right now, we are going to do 100% classic/cult hits that MAD never did. You already know about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and after yesterday, The Shawshank Redemption. Well here are four more we’ll be spoofing: Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner and Unforgiven! That’s six of our ten target movies revealed! The remaining four consist of the… READ MORE
October 29th, 2020 | Posted in News
This is Des and my Star Wars splash page from our spoof of “The Rise of Skywalker”, but that’s not the Star Wars splash page I’m talking about. We are guests on the “Star Wars Splash Page” podcast episode released today. I am not making this up. It’s really called “Star Wars Splash Page”, and it’s a podcast that reviews contemporary Star Wars comics, interviews creators and otherwise covers the Star Wars universe in the world of comics. Des and I had a great time chatting with hosts Matt and Jeff about MAD and CLAPTRAP. It’s a fun listen. READ MORE
October 28th, 2020 | Posted in News
Here’s a sneak peek at another of the parodies that will appear in Des Devlin and my upcoming book CLAPTRAP… “The Shawshank Redemption!” The stats: Oscar Nominations: 7 Golden Globe Nominations: 2 Screen Actors Guild Award Nominations: 2 Director’s Guild of America Nominations: 1 Writer’s Guild of America Nominations: 1 MAD Magazine spoofs: 0 This movie never got a parody in MAD, likely because it was a box office disappointment back in 1994 and was up against “Pulp Fiction” and “Forrest Gump,” both of which DID get the MAD treatment. Since then, “Shawshank” has become a cult classic that constantly appears in “The Best Movies… READ MORE
October 27th, 2020 | Posted in News
Desmond and I are guests tonight at 8:00 pm CDT on a LIVE STREAM episode of the MAD magazine news and review channel “Flippin’ Through”! We’ll talk about CLAPTRAP and our time at MAD. The chat will be open for live questions or comments. Join us tonight! READ MORE
October 27th, 2020 | Posted in News
Desmond wrote this week’s CLAPTRAP update, which you can read here. He details the process for how backers at the “Doofus” level and up can nominate and vote on two of the spoofs we’ll be doing for the book! He also reveals how we will be revealing a second sneak peek of one of our movie parodies TOMORROW! That’s a reveal of a reveal. Unreal. We reached our first stretch goal on Sunday, so ALL backers getting a physical shipment (that’s “Clod” level and up) will now get a 2″x9″ full color exclusive backer bookmark with their book, featuring art by me! That’s amazing, and… READ MORE
October 26th, 2020 | Posted in Monday MADness
Okay these are not really from MAD. They are a bunch of MAD sketch covers I did for my “Virtual Artist’s Alley” table I have been doing in lieu of actual comic-cons, which of course are not happening right now. If you like these my next virtual artists alley event will likely be in March. BTW these are all done using brush pens and Copic markers. READ MORE
October 25th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Q: What were some of your favorite MAD parodies to work on? A: I am a big Batman fan so the parodies I did one of the three Christopher Nolan movies are definitely at the top of that list: As far as TV shows, I loved doing Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Stranger Things. There were only a handful of movie/TV parodies I disliked doing. Most of the time these were the funnest, best projects to work on not matter the subject. Thanks to Minebot45 (via Reddit) for the question. If you have a question you want answered for the mailbag about cartooning, illustration, MAD Magazine, caricature or similar, e-mail… READ MORE
October 24th, 2020 | Posted in General
Earlier this month I released my “updated” James Bond caricature print “Shaken Not Stirred”. It was updated in that I added new caricatures of the two “unofficial” Bonds (meaning they were outside the “Broccoli” Bond film series) Barry Nelson (1954’s TV show “Climax!”) and David Niven (1967 spoof movie “Casino Royale), and I also did all new caricatures for both Sean Connery and George Lazenby, as I had grown to dislike the previous ones. The other four, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig were just slightly revised (removed the “wingtip” collars on their tuxes, which Bond aficionados assure me Bond would never… READ MORE
