Tom Tomorrow

Cutting with a sharp wit through the cheesy dullness of the MAGA death cult, this book scores a bullseye on every single page. Skewering the sycophants, exposing the brain-dead idiocy and zombie-like shamblings of the America-hating trumpistas, this book is an absolute jewel.

It's always a little weird to read editorial cartoons fifteen years after they first appeared. Many of the political figures are still prominent today, but so many have fallen along the wayside and are fading from memory as are the events in which they figured. It's amusing to see what angered the cartoonist then and think, "Oh, buddy, you have no idea how much worse it's gonna get."

Still, it's good to remind oneself of even relatively recent historical events in order to see the show more continuities, the places where history is always repeating itself. The conservative vs. liberal back and forth is as regular and reliable as the black and white spies from Mad magazine. The conspiracy theories are always spiraling and the culture wars rage on over abortion, Christmas, and children's education.

Tom Tomorrow's cartoons are dense and wordy, but I easily identify with the liberal anger and sarcasm dripping from every page. show less

One hears little from him these days, but in the years around the turn of the century the author was among the foremost cartoonists representing the left in American civil discourse. His 'tooning style involved a straightfacedly archaic universe populated by staid fifties style conformists mouthing conservative platitudes often refuted by such oddities as a talking penguin, a talking stomach, and the affairs of all frequently punctuated by space aliens or gadgetry straight out of the show more imagination of fifties futurists. Although the author is a man of the left, he often took time out to lampoon Democrats as well. This is frequently hilarious, not always ideological, and I wish that I could say that it should be appreciated by all ideologies, but in today's social climate I know better. show less

The first collection of Tom Tomorrow's (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) wickedly funny and pointedly liberal political cartoons following the 2008 election. One would think that his acerbic penguin spokesman, Sparky, would be panting with glee over the outcome, and all mellow and nice-nice. Not so, Cheney-breath. Sparky wastes no time in castigating Obama for promises unkept, an unwillingness to spend political capital and hold Republican feet to the fire, and a tendency to continue Bush policies that show more he campaigned against. Not that the right doesn't come in for their fair share of abuse. My secret dream is to see Tom Tomorrow, Pat Oliphant and Berkely Breathed collaborate on a strip with their three respective penguins at a round table doing a TV show a la Jon Stewart. show less