Monday MADness
January 31st, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Get ready for the fallout because it’s time to launch another episode of our nuclear-powered trip through my work at MAD Magazine! This piece is a megaton-o-fun from MAD’s “20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2006” from MAD #473, Jan 2007. I think the theme and message is self explanatory. There is no writer credit so this was one of the MAD 20 pieces that was written by the MAD staff. This was another try at a fully digital piece, and I liked the results with this one a lot better than the “religious Video Games” one I had done a few issues ago.… READ MORE
January 25th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Better late than never this week… it’s time for another installment of our look back at my work for MAD Magazine! This week we revisit the parody of what was then a brand new TV show called “Grey’s Anatomy”, written by Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #472, Dec 2006. Let’s get to the spoof… stat! For some reason all my sketches and process stuff for this spoof is missing, so I have no pencils or anything to share but the final art. I’ve no idea what happened to all those images. The last panel of the page above is interesting because the character… READ MORE
January 17th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday! You know what that means… time for another revolting episode of our long and winding stroll down the road that is my work for MAD magazine. MAD #471, Nov 2006 marked the second time I had multiple pieces in the same issue, and the first time I contributed anything to “The Fundalini Pages”. Back in 2004 MAD added a feature in the front of the magazine called “The Fundalini Pages”. It appeared immediately after the “Letters and Tomatoes” section and consisted of usually four to six pages of short form features like comic strips, single panel gag cartoons, all text pieces, photo gags,… READ MORE
January 10th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday, and that means another tasty episode from our ongoing menu of my work for MAD Magazine. For this main course, all I can say is if you can’t stand the %$#&@ heat then get out of my %$#!*& kitchen! It’s back to “reality” TV with MAD’s parody of the foul-mouthed Gordon Ramsey and his chef competition show “Hell’s Kitchen”. This spoof was written by MAD’s MADdest Writer Dick DeBartolo and appeared in MAD #470, October 2006. I can’t remember if the deadline on this one was really short, but these “roughs” are about as rough as they ever got for me. I had… READ MORE
January 3rd, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the Superman sequel the WB wants to forget ever happened! Too late! MAD did a spoof of “Superman Returns” in MAD #468, August 2006, written by MAD‘s MADdest Writer Dick DeBartolo, so it’s immortalized… just like “Bunny Lake is Missing”! I thought it was odd having Spider-Man narrate the first part of the parody, but it actually worked really well because the gag about his being a hipper and more relevant movie superhero aside, it allowed for an “outside looking in” explanation of the convoluted plot and how the movie attempted to be a direct sequel to 1980’s… READ MORE
December 27th, 2021 | Posted in MAD Magazine
We’re taking a week off of revisiting the old with a brand new MAD piece from MAD #23, which dropped earlier this month. This is a rare piece of new work inside of the magazine, which is almost entirely reprint material these days. MAD #23 is a “Batman” themed issue, and since the cover featured the latest Batman from the upcoming “The Batman” film, MAD head honcho Suzy Hutchinson convinced the powers-that-be upstairs to spring for s new two pager so there was something inside that also featured Robert Pattinson‘s Bats. This is it, written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin. Toon in next week… READ MORE
December 20th, 2021 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Rev those engines, race fans! It’s monday, and that means it’s time for another agonizingly slow lap around my work for MAD Magazine. This week we are shifting gears with what was my first all-digital piece for the magazine, “Rejected Characters from Cars”, written by Jacob Lambert and first appearing in MAD #467, July 2006. When I say “all digital” I just mean the finished art. I still did the pencil sketches with actual pencils on actual paper, but after scanning the roughs I did do any physical inking on bristol board like I usually do. I wbt right on top of the pencils with… READ MORE
December 13th, 2021 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s time for another off-key Monday edition of Tom’s MADness! This time we drop the mic with a return to the world of “reality” TV and another cringe-worthy performance with “You Can Write the Next American Idol Single”, written by my CLAPTRAP partner Desmond Devlin and appearing in MAD #466, June 2006. This was also my 50th appearance in the magazine. I have to admit I don’t like these kinds of reality competition shows, and have never watched more than a few episodes of any of them. It’s not that I think they are bad shows, I just find them uninteresting and boring. My wife… READ MORE
