Tom’s MADness!
June 24th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Better late then never, even on a Monday! Here we go with yet another step along the seemingly never ending path that was my work for MAD Magazine. Today’s episode is the second half of the work I did for MAD #548 (Dec 2017), which was the companion cover for the “Stranger Things:” spoof I also did the art for in this issue. In late July 2017 I got a call from MAD art director Sam Viviano asking me if I was interested in doing the cover of issue #548, which would be a “Stranger Things” theme. I was in the middle of doing the… READ MORE
June 17th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to Embiggen… Here we go with another ridiculous look back at my work for MAD Magazine! We are getting very close to the end of the New York MAD run… only two more issues after this one, MAD #548, which featured Desmond Devlin and my spoof of “Stranger Things” (I also did the cover, but that is for next week). I did a lot of work for MAD over the almost 18 years to this point in the timeline, and I’d go on to do quite a bit more up until the end of new content, but I consider this issue the peak of… 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
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
