Tom's Mad Blog
June 2nd, 2025 | Posted in General
My workshop in NYC is sold out, so if you were procrastinating on pulling the trigger you are out of luck! Or maybe not… You can get on the waitlist for any sold out workshop in case of a cancellation. There’s never any cost to be on a waitlist for any of my workshops, and no obligation to take a spot if one becomes open and is offered to you. If we have a spot open up we contact the first person on the waitlist and offer that spot to them. If they decline to take it we offer the spot to the next person… READ MORE
May 28th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We continue with our Monty Python series with the late, great Graham Chapman! Of all the Pythons, Chapman always seemed to me to be the “quiet one”. He always seemed to play the straight man in sketches, and rarely was the one to play the “over the top” crazy characters. The other Pythons often cited Chapman as the best actor of the group, which is probably one reason why he played the lead in both “The Life of Brian” and “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. I’m guessing he was also willing to be the straight man, while the others preferred to do the funnier,… READ MORE
May 27th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here we go with another of the last few stumbling steps of my work for MAD Magazine. This was the second of the two pieces I did the art for in the “MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2019”, and Advent calendar featuring potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, written by Amanda Stellberg and first published in MAD #11, Feb 2020. This was an easy two pager for me, as all I did was thirteen spot illustration caricatures of various Democratic politicians. Here are the pencils and the individual spots: This issue was really the beginning of the end for MAD. We had been… READ MORE
May 22nd, 2025 | Posted in General
And now for something completely different… a new sketch series: the members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus! We start out with the great John Cleese from his immortal skit “The Ministry of Silly Walks”. READ MORE
May 14th, 2025 | Posted in General
Pink Floyd was one of those bands where I needed to be in the right frame of mind to listen to their music. In high school I usually needed my tunes to rock harder, but when in a contemplative mood Floyd was just the ticket. They refused to be put into a genre classification. Some songs were heavy metal and some rocked pretty hard but most were impossible to label… and why would you want to? While “The Wall” was the band’s Magnus Opus, and “Dark Side of the Moon” was their most successful and probably signature album, my favorite album was always “Wish You… READ MORE
May 9th, 2025 | Posted in General
Earlier this year one of the stars of CBS’s “Ghosts”, Richie Moriarty, commissioned me to do an illustration of the cast for him to give prints to as a end-of-the-season gift. He asked me not to share the art online until after the season finale because most of the characters here are doing things that are part of the latest season’s storylines, and he didn’t want any spoilers revealed. That season finale aired last night, so here’s the art to did for him (he’s the boy scout with the arrow through his neck and missing hand in the lower right). Pen and ink on bristol… READ MORE
May 7th, 2025 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
…as Eddie Brock/Venom. “Eyes. Lungs. Pancreas. So Many Snacks, So Little Time.” READ MORE
May 7th, 2025 | Posted in General
I’m headed to the Highlands (well, actually the Central Lowlands but it’s more fun to say “Highlands”) of bonnie auld Scotland to do a workshop this fall! This is not just my only workshop overseas this year, but my last one in 2025. If you want to join us in Glasgow this October 21-22, click the link here for all the details. This in the first workshop I will have ever done on weekdays (a Tuesday and Wednesday), but as the fall is peak wedding season in the UK/Europe, I thought it would give some professional caricaturists a chance to take it without having to… READ MORE
