"The Ink Stained Wretch" is an exclusive first look at art, stories, features, and other stupidity delivered to your inbox every Wednesday from one of MAD Magazine's "Usual Gang of Idiots", Tom Richmond!
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The Ink Stained Wretch #257 10/7/26
It’s time again for another of the lame, lousy, lackluster lumps of lethargy that are these newsletters! You’ll need more than one spoonful of sugar to get our Sketch o’the Week down, we answer a reader question about caricaturing celebriti...
The Furshlugginer Files #41
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This week’s “Intro Alfred” is one another one I did for a comic-con type commission. This one is a weird one, based on the 1991 album cover art for the band “Mr. Bungle”, which in turn was first appeared in...
The Ink Stained Wretch #256 9/30/26
Here we go with another of the kooky, kitschy, knavish collections of kvetching that are those newsletters! This week we “Lose Control” with our sketch, tell the tale of my very first caricature art stand, and share one more sneak peek at m...
The Furshlugginer Files #40
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This week’s “Intro Alfred” is one of the covers I’ve done for the collectors issues MAD does with Barnes & Noble. The first series was called “The Treasure Trove of Trash”. That garbage truck was a real pain...
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