MAD Magazine
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
May 20th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Ah… Monday. The start of a new week, with all the hopes and possibilities it represents! Sorry to bring it all crashing down in a cascade of idiocy, but it’s once again time for another step along the path of our look back at my work for MAD Magazine. This week features not one but two politically themed pieces, both with uncredited writers meaning they were written by the MAD staff, which appeared in MAD #547, Oct 2017. The first in this issue was a quick single panel that was part of “The Trumpalini Pages”, a recent offshoot of the by then fairly long running… READ MORE
May 13th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
We interrupt our chronological slog through my work at MAD because it was at this moment in our timeline, June of 2017, that we finally learned who would be the new editor of MAD once it moved out to Burbank a mere 6 months later from that point. Back in March of that year it had been announced that MAD was finally following the rest of DC Comics from NYC out to Burbank, but since that announcement took place there was no word on who would be the new editor nor who would be on staff. I knew that no one from the NYC staff… READ MORE
April 22nd, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to Embiggen… A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… it was a MONDAY! Just like it is today right here in this galaxy! That means it’s time to embrace the Dark Side of the Farce with another look back at my work for MAD Magazine. Today we have a peek at my second chance at spoofing a Star Wars movie… MAD‘s parody of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”, written by David Richards and first appearing in MAD #545, June 2017. I know what you are thinking… who the %$#@& is “David Richards”?? Well, Mr. Richards wrote five pieces for MAD… READ MORE
April 15th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s another nauseating Monday MADness as we chronologically look back at my work for MAD Magazine! We are nearing the end of the New York MAD era with this peek at a piece I did for MAD #544 (April 2017) called “The Trump Family Circus”, written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin! Mimicking Bil (and later Jeff) Keane‘s art style was nothing new for me. Just a few years earlier I did a similar job for MAD #520 called “Honey Boo Boo’s Family Circus”, but that one was written by Frank Santopadre. Most of the interesting things about a job like this I wrtoe about… READ MORE
April 10th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s double the MADness for me this month with not one but two covers I did for the magazine and a special issue. The top one here is for the cover of the Barnes & Noble special issue “MAD Treasure Trove of Trash #8″, which is available in bookstores and some retail outlets. The second one is the cover of MAD #37. If you are wondering who’s who in the crowd of comedians they are: Left, from top: Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, Katt Williams, Ali Wong, Jo Koy. Right from top: Matt Rife, Amy Schumer, Tiffany Haddish, Bert Kreischer, Natasha Leggaro. Middle: Alfred E. Neuman. READ MORE
March 25th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
We interrupt the incessant and increasingly idiotic idling through my work at MAD because it was at this point in the timeline that it was announced MAD was moving from its New York City home of 65 years to sunny Burbank, California. Most people who read this blog already know this story, but this next paragraph is the tl;dr version of why this happened: In 2015 DC Entertainment closed up the New York City offices of its DC Comics publishing group and moved everything to the Warner Bros Complex out in Burbank. MAD was part of those publishing operations and the magazine’s offices were part… READ MORE
March 18th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
No one is happy that today is both a Monday and the day after St. Patricks Day, but we here at Tom’s MAD Blog are ready to make things even worse for you with yet another episode of our cringey chronological crawl through Tom’s work at MAD. We’ve reached the end of 2016, and that meant another year end “MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things” issue. I had two pieces in this issue, this one being one of those extremely rare instances of a political piece that didn’t have anything to do with Trump. This feature first appeared in MAD #543, Feb 2017 and… READ MORE
