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Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World has been hailed as “one of the most clever and incisive political cartoons in the country” (Los Angeles Times). For twenty years, Tomorrow’s sharply funny and fiercely intelligent commentary has been a beacon of much-needed satire in the often-bleak world of media news. Recently, as a regular feature in weekly papers nationwide as well as online, This Modern World has continued to lend the voices of its irreverent regulars—Sparky, Blinky, and Conservative Jones, among others—to the issues of what has been a remarkable, turbulent time in this nation’s history.
This latest anthology collects Tomorrow’s work from 2008 to the present along with never before seen pieces. It covers the drama and spectacle of the presidential campaign, the historic election and first year in office of Barack Obama, the financial meltdown and Great Recession, and the rise of the teabaggers and the battle over healthcare reform, among other madcap topics.
The result is more than simply the sum of its parts—at once a cultural artifact and an absolutely brilliant survey of political cartooning at its acme.
This latest anthology collects Tomorrow’s work from 2008 to the present along with never before seen pieces. It covers the drama and spectacle of the presidential campaign, the historic election and first year in office of Barack Obama, the financial meltdown and Great Recession, and the rise of the teabaggers and the battle over healthcare reform, among other madcap topics.
The result is more than simply the sum of its parts—at once a cultural artifact and an absolutely brilliant survey of political cartooning at its acme.
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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About the author
Tom Tomorrow
44 books19 followersTom Tomorrow is the pen name of editorial cartoonist Dan Perkins, creator of the weekly political cartoon, This Modern World, which appears in approximately 80 newspapers across the U.S., and on websites such as Daily Kos, Truthout and Credo. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Spin, Mother Jones, Esquire, The Economist, The Nation, U.S. News and World Report, and The American Prospect, and has been featured on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
From 1999-2001, he worked on a series of animated web cartoons which can be viewed here.
In 2009, he created the cover art for the Pearl Jam album Backspacer.
In 2011 he ended a 16 year run at Salon to create and edit a new comics section at Daily Kos.
He has published nine anthologies of his work:
–Greetings From This Modern World (1992)
–Tune in Tomorrow (1994)
–The Wrath of Sparky (1996)
–Penguin Soup for the Soul (1998)
–When Penguins Attack (2000) (introduction by Dave Eggers)
–The Great Big Book of Tomorrow (2003)
–Hell in a Handbasket (2006)
–The Future’s So Bright I Can’t Bear to Look (2008)
Too Much Crazy (2010)
He is also the author of a book for children, The Very Silly Mayor (2009).
He received the first place Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1998 and in 2003. Other honors include:
1993: Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award
1995: Society of Professional Journalists James Madison Freedom of Information Award
2000: Association for Education in Journalism and Education, Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award
2001: James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
2004: Altweekly Award, 2nd Place
2006: Altweekly Award, 3rd Place
Tom Tomorrow is available for speaking engagements. For further information, contact tomtomorrow (at) gmail (dot) com. He is also currently in the market for a new publisher, if anyone’s interested.
From 1999-2001, he worked on a series of animated web cartoons which can be viewed here.
In 2009, he created the cover art for the Pearl Jam album Backspacer.
In 2011 he ended a 16 year run at Salon to create and edit a new comics section at Daily Kos.
He has published nine anthologies of his work:
–Greetings From This Modern World (1992)
–Tune in Tomorrow (1994)
–The Wrath of Sparky (1996)
–Penguin Soup for the Soul (1998)
–When Penguins Attack (2000) (introduction by Dave Eggers)
–The Great Big Book of Tomorrow (2003)
–Hell in a Handbasket (2006)
–The Future’s So Bright I Can’t Bear to Look (2008)
Too Much Crazy (2010)
He is also the author of a book for children, The Very Silly Mayor (2009).
He received the first place Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1998 and in 2003. Other honors include:
1993: Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award
1995: Society of Professional Journalists James Madison Freedom of Information Award
2000: Association for Education in Journalism and Education, Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award
2001: James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
2004: Altweekly Award, 2nd Place
2006: Altweekly Award, 3rd Place
Tom Tomorrow is available for speaking engagements. For further information, contact tomtomorrow (at) gmail (dot) com. He is also currently in the market for a new publisher, if anyone’s interested.
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February 24, 2018
A collection of "This Modern World" cartoons from 2008-2010. This is prime Tom Tomorrow. Go to his website (thismodernworld.com) and check out some of his recent cartoons. If you like them, you will enjoy this book. If you don't like them, then the book is not for you.
July 5, 2021
Reading Tom Tomorrow collections that are older than a few years old is turning out to be relatively difficult, as one needs to think back to what feels like decades ago now, to remember what was going on at the time in order to parse the comics. Even so, I enjoyed this walk down memory lane. :)
February 6, 2023
Too Much Funny!
August 9, 2011
It's been a good long while since I read a Tom Tomorrow book (or one of his strips). I'm glad to see his work and impression of the American political landscape is even better than ever. This book covers about the first two years of Obama's presidency. It not only perfectly lampoons Obama (he has two characters, the real Obama and the ghost like "idea of Obama"), but points out/makes fun of/chronicles/despairs at the rise of what can only be described as "crazy" within our political/public culture.
On top of the strips them selves the books includes a fairly lengthy (for this kind of book) introduction by the author which eloquently discusses the current disintegration of newspapers/rise of internet culture and it's effect on his artistic medium.
I also have to say my two favorite strips from the whole work are the two the jokingly show the Bush administration as deep cover Liberals setting out a detailed plan in the late 60's to infiltrate the Republican party and destroy it forever only to be out done by the deep cover Republican's in the Obama administration who had the same idea a decade later.
On top of the strips them selves the books includes a fairly lengthy (for this kind of book) introduction by the author which eloquently discusses the current disintegration of newspapers/rise of internet culture and it's effect on his artistic medium.
I also have to say my two favorite strips from the whole work are the two the jokingly show the Bush administration as deep cover Liberals setting out a detailed plan in the late 60's to infiltrate the Republican party and destroy it forever only to be out done by the deep cover Republican's in the Obama administration who had the same idea a decade later.
January 16, 2011
I've been a huge Tom Tomorrow fan since the late 1990s, but his more recent collections somehow seemed less trenchant to me than his earlier work. With this latest collection, he is back in top form. Perhaps he was invigorated by the opportunity to take shots at someone other than George W. Bush. His criticisms of Obama - and of the people who naively believed Obama was an actual liberal (due to their "imaginary conversations" with him) - are dead on. Obviously not a book for everyone, but people who (for example) believe universal health care is a right, and not a socialist plot, will enjoy it tremendously.
June 23, 2013
Very fun political cartoons by Tom Tomorrow. Left leaning to say the least, and great lampooning of right wing political culture.
If you are a liberal in the USA, you will most likely like this. If you are a conservative, you will most likely hate it, except for the satirical biting of Obama. Does a great job of taking apart the fears that the Foxers had in mind for the American public at the beginning of Obama's first presidency.
If you are a liberal in the USA, you will most likely like this. If you are a conservative, you will most likely hate it, except for the satirical biting of Obama. Does a great job of taking apart the fears that the Foxers had in mind for the American public at the beginning of Obama's first presidency.
January 4, 2011
I read this cartoon often. It comforts me to know that I am not the only crazy left-wing socialist out there.
June 20, 2011
Just a book of political cartoons, but I loved it!
August 12, 2011
Book eight of his cartoons. He has the best Obama political cartoons, that I have seen.
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