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Newspapers are dying and political commentary has been reduced to loudmouths spitting food at each other in 30 second sound bites. Thank God for Tom Tomorrow, the most insightful, consistently hilarious political commentator working today.As a cartoonist, he simply blows away the legion of humorless hacks, with their labels and tired metaphors, that muck up the editorial pages of our dying newspapers.
Color panels of the zany world of Tom Tomorrow make for a fantastically humorous future world in this political graphic novel spoof. Welcome to a political world where Bush and Cheney are secretly radical leftists trying to destroy the Republican party from within - and a game show awards prizes to contestants with the most outlandishly inappropriate answers.
And you know what's really funny. Reading it in the days since Obama's inauguration on Jan. Show your support for progressive humor and buy Tom's book. It has served as a source of inspiration at the triumph of hope over hate in the 2008 election.
Tom Tomorrow is that rare cartoonist who deftly combines sharp political satire with comical hilarity to capture the ridiculousness of modern political discourse in six short cartoon panels. One of the recipients is the editor of our local alt-weekly newspaper, which recently dropped This Modern World due to budget cuts. I bought three copies and gave two away to friends. He is a treasure for all Americans, and I hope he lives forever.
Thankfully, all those Tom Tomorrow strips from 2006-2007 seem like ancient dark chapters that are now long past.While money is tight these days for all of us, we need voices like Tom's to thrive. Now he gets to see what he's missing. His latest highly recommended collection of "This Modern World" strips titled, "The Future is So Bright, I Can't Bear to Look" is of the same high caliber as his previous works. 20 has brought a smile to my face in these dark, turbulent times.
Boring. This strip appears in a local free paper. It is dull, political commentary with a rabid left wing point of view.
There's lots of "views" of Flatulent Hannity (though I don't know his name is uses), some wonderful observations of Rudy Guiliani, and,yes, even of Hillary. One comic that really breaks me up each time I see it is John McCain mixing something up with a hole in the ground. None are freed from Tom's mighty pen. Then there's exposes of Bill O'Reilly's nonsense.
I've been a Tomorrow fan--Hmm, sounds like I'm humming along with an "Annie" soundtrack.NOT--since I first saw his work years ago. And LOTS of comments on the mainstream media.I'd be remiss if I didn't let you know of Tom's Penguin commentator, Sparky.As serious if not devestating as life is these days, you still need to laugh. Limbaugh. When I'm down about something, I pull out his book I already have, can see something I've seen dozens of times before, and wake up my wife with my laughter.(Maybe that's why she gave this one to me for Christmas).This is even better.
Others have Alan Greenspan, there are several with Conservative Jones, Boy Detective and his challenger Moonbat McWacky. Tom stimulates the only laughter known to awaken my spouse, and that's a lotta laughs.The only "sad" thing about this is that Tom Tomorrow is far more observant and perceptive than countless among us who are "educated," especially those representing the press.Get this one, read it, laugh so the neighbors will wonder what's causing their Richter Scale to quiver a little, then have them learn from it.And, Tom, keep 'em coming. There ain't nothin' sacred, thank heaven. (I'll let you guess).
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