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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
April 5th, 2024 | Posted in General
Catch Des and I LIVE on the “Flippin’ Through” MAD channel this Sunday, April 7th at 8 pm CDT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PjCHx8Ai7s READ MORE
April 3rd, 2024 | Posted in General
Here’s caricaturing you, kid! It’s time to round up the usual suspects as we begin a new series for the “Sketch o’the Week”… famous movie scenes! This was inspired by this sketch, which was actually a commission ordered by a longtime customer who wanted Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman drawn in the classic ending scene from “Casablanca”. After I did the sketch I thought a series of caricatures from classic moments in cinema history would be a lot of fun to do. READ MORE
April 1st, 2024 | Posted in General
What more do you want on April Fool’s Day than a live show with some actual fools! The CLAPTRAP/MAD duo of Desmond Devlin and me will be guests tonight on David Levin‘s “Pop Goes the Culture” show. Live at 9 PM Eastern! 6 PM Pacific! All the time zones in between! We’ll be talking about our new book, our old experiences and more. You can listen live on YouTube for free! If you want to participate in the show and Q&A, you can do so here (not free). READ MORE
March 22nd, 2024 | Posted in General
Condolences to the friends and family of character actor extraordinaire M. Emmet Walsh, who passed away on Tuesday. He appears here as “Captain Bryant” in our parody of “Blade Runner” in CLAPTRAP. READ MORE
