Tom’s MADness!
December 12th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I know what you are thinking… Tom forgot about his “Monday MADness” post this week, and you are doubtless rejoicing that you are not to be subjected to yet another look back in the archives of my work for MAD Magazine. Well, I didn’t and you are! Time and family circumstances just delayed our usual MAD flashback foolishness. This week we are back to the stuff I did for the actual magazine with yet another Hunger Games movie spoof. This time my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and I spoof BOTH Parts 1 and 2 of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay” in one fell swoop… mostly because… READ MORE
December 4th, 2023 | Posted in General
Welcome good citizens to another Moronic Monday of Mayhem as we look back at my work for MAD Magazine! We are actually going to take another break from work for actual issues of the magazine with yet another side project I did at this point in our chronological crawl, being spring 2016. The MAD folks came up with an idea to do a series of parodies of children’s books set in the world of DC comics superheroes (spoiler: MAD is owned by DC!) They asked me to do the art for the first book, a spoof of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd‘s classic Goodnight… READ MORE
November 27th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Monday MADness is here again, but this week we have a look at a side project for the MAD gang I did in 2016 that was published between MAD #537 and #538. These publications were called “Bookazines” and were 96-ish page square bound “specials” usually billed as “Special Collector’s Editions”, and contained reprinted material around some theme. This one was entitled “MAD Presents Oscar Winners (and Losers!)”, and mostly contained movie spoofs of Oscar winning movies plus a smattering of other movie related features. I got the cover assignment, which I suspect was a bit of a trial run for a “real” cover assignment that… READ MORE
November 20th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
May the farce be with you! It’s time for another brush with the dark side as we have a look back and my work for MAD Magazine. This week we look at the second of two pieces I did the art for in MAD #537, Feb 2016. This second feature is called the “ForceSonic 92-cm Lightsaber Manual”, and was written by Scott Maiko. I was pretty excited to get to do this feature because it was spoofing “Star Wars”, and I have been a Star Wars geek since I was 11 in 1977 and saw the original film 56 times in the local theater that… READ MORE
November 13th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s another moronic Monday, and another look back at my work for MAD. This week we have a peek at one of “MAD‘s 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2015″. I did the art for Dumb Thing #13, which was about the bribery scandal involving the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). In May of 2015, more than two dozen FIFA officials and associates were indicted for what was revealed to be a more than two decade long scheme of accepting over $150 million in bribes, in part for the awarding of hosting rights to the World Cup. A bunch of people went to jail.… READ MORE
November 6th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s another MAD Monday, and we are one step closer to the end of this seemingly endless look back at my work for MAD Magazine. This week we get away from the world of movie and TV parodies and have a peek at a feature article called “Home Renovations: HGTV vs. Real Life”, written by the marvelously talented Teresa Burns Parkhurst and appearing in MAD #536, Dec 2015. Most people who are familiar with my work in MAD think first of the movie and TV parodies, and would assume the majority of the work I did for the magazine were those kinds of “continuity” spoofs.… READ MORE
October 30th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to another Monday. It’s bad enough that it’s the start of another miserable work week, but you also have to be subjected to another episode of our look back at my work for MAD magazine AND on top of that it’s yet another spoof of a Marvel movie! However, as we are nearing the end of the line, we have this consolation… this is the last full and actual parody of a Marvel film MAD ever did. This was written by my partner in CLAPTRAP crime Desmond Devlin, and first appeared in MAD #535, Oct 2015. What’s that you say? This was not the… READ MORE
October 23rd, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome back to Monday MADness! For those following along at home, this is where I waste your time and valuable brain cells sharing the work I did for MAD Magazine over the years in chronological order. I haven’t one of these since late August, much to the relief of the half dozen people that actually still read this blog! Bad news–I’m back and here’s another entry on this long and utterly pointless trail of travesty. Here’s a look at MAD‘s spoof of the Showtime show “Ray Donovan”, written by the great Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #534, August 2015. As I was working… READ MORE
