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May 6th, 2024 | Posted in General
Here we go with another nauseating step on the chronological crawl through my work for MAD Magazine. This was the 99th issue my work appeared in, and fittingly enough this piece, a spoof the the prime time TV game show “The Wall”, was written by the same guy who wrote the very first piece I ever had printed in MAD… MAD‘s MADdest writer Dick DeBartolo! This first appeared in MAD #546, Aug 2017. This also ended up being the last time I did the art on a Dick De feature. Of all the writers I worked with at MAD, Desmond Devlin was far and away… READ MORE
May 3rd, 2024 | Posted in General
Jerry Seinfeld‘s new movie “Unfrosted”, a fictional origin story of the “Pop-Tarts” breakfast pastry, was released for mass consumption today on Netflix. It happens that I did the art for another fake MAD cover prop ala “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, only this one was for “Unfrosted”. This, of course, did not necessarily mean the cover prop would actually be seen in the film. I’ve done a number of projects for film and TV that never got seen or used in the end product. However the cover does make a brief appearance in the film, with Melissa McCarthy‘s character reading an issue while working… READ MORE
April 28th, 2024 | Posted in General
C2E2’s a wrap! Thanks to everyone who got a commission from me here on the virtual version of my table. If you missed it, I’ll do another one of these in October during New York Comic Con! READ MORE
April 26th, 2024 | Posted in General
My “Virtual C2E2 Artist’s Alley” table is now open! From now through the end of C2E2, you can order the same kinds of commissions at the same prices I charge when I do a comic con. The table will close at 5pm CDT on Sunday! Visit here for the different kinds of commissions I have available. All online orders will be completed in the order in which they were placed, so the sooner you commission me to do a drawing for you, the sooner you will get it! READ MORE
April 24th, 2024 | Posted in General
Here we go with another caricature of a famous moment in film…except this isn’t really that moment. The moment I’m referring to is the scene in ‘Pulp Fiction”, when Samuel L. Jackson‘s “Jules Winfield” recites the Bible verse Ezekiel 25:17 right before killing poor Brad and his pal. I paraphrased the moment (if you can paraphrase something in a drawing) by combining Jules’ expression during that soliloquy with the moment a few seconds later when he and John Travolta‘s “Vincent Vega” open fire on another of Brad’s pals when said pal bursts out of the bathroom and empties a handgun on them, but misses every… READ MORE
April 16th, 2024 | Posted in General
My 2024 workshops are starting to fill up. Plenty of room left in the two September classes but the others are getting full, especially Boston and Chicago! Grab your spot while you can! READ MORE
April 11th, 2024 | Posted in General
My “Sketch o’the Week Vol. 5: Special TV Guide Edition” is at the printer and should land on my doorstep the first week of May. This is a new collection of sketches and caricatures from my “Sketch o’the Week”, and this volume is themed around classic and current television shows and stars, many of which you have seen posted right here on Tom’s MAD Blog! The book contains over 150 caricatures over 62 pages, and is now available for pre-order! Well, what are you waiting for, schmuck?? READ MORE
April 8th, 2024 | Posted in General
Here we go with yet another moronic Monday of MADness and another installment of our look back at my work for MAD magazine. This is entry number 96.5 because this is the second of two pieces I had in MAD #543, Feb 2017. The first was one of the “MAD 20″ pieces for this year end issue (see our last installment!), and this other was a full parody of the movie “Sully”, written by MAD’s MADdest writer Dick DeBartolo! For a number of years I used this parody as the example when I did a talk on how to do MAD movie parodies, mainly because… READ MORE
