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

Remember how I promised threatened to start a new series for the SotW based on famous moments in movies? Bad news… it’s started! This week’s movie moment is Robert De Niro as “Travis Bickle” in the famous “are you talkin’ to me?” scene from “Taxi Driver”. This might be the most often and badly imitated scene in all of movie history… well, this and any Sean Connery impression. Oh, and before I get a flood of responses to this telling me I put De Niro’s mole on the wrong side of his face, remember this scene takes place in a MIRROR ..read more

I’ll be in Artist’s Alley at C2E2 in Chicago starting one week from today! Come find me at table z-05 where I will have lots of copies of CLAPTRAP, some other new stuff, and I’ll be doing commissions on the spot! For those of you who can’t make it to C2E2, I’ll also be doing one of my “Virtual Artist Alley” tables through the Studio Store here on my website. This is where I offer the same kind of comic con commissions at the same prices, which I only do when I do these simultaneous online “tables”. The virtual AA Table will open at 10:00 ..read more

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

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

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

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

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

In a rare break from tradition, the original of this sketch is still available! We are Burning Down the House with this week’s sketch of “Talking Heads” frontman David Byrne! The “Talking Heads” was one of those bands that was impossible to categorize. They came into being during the punk rock/New wave era of the late 1970’s, but they weren’t really part of either movement, although “New Wave” is what they get shoehorned into when being discussed. They were the definition of “their own thing”, and a big part of that was Byrne’s oddball but charismatic presence. You couldn’t quite tell if he an ..read more

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