Tune In Tomorrow - Softcover

Tomorrow, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312113447 ISBN 13: 9780312113445

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 1994

Synopsis

Cartoons offer a satirical look at the Bush and Clinton administrations, big business, the news media, television call-in shows, the Persian Gulf War, the budget deficit, and Rush Limbaugh

About this title

About the Author:

For reasons known only to himself, Tom Tomorrow conducts his daily business under the rather unlikely pseudonym "Dan Perkins." His cartoons appear regularly in approximately eighty papers across the country, and have been featured in Spin magazine, the Utne Reader, the Nation, the Village Voice, The New York Times, the Washington Post, and many other publications. He has been a guest on such national radio programs as "Fresh Air" and "Talk of the Nation," and was once described as "the most important cartoonist in America" by some drunk guy at a party.

From Booklist:

In his feature "This Modern World," which appears mostly in weekly alternative papers, Tom Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins) uses images traced from photographic references (running from 1950s advertising art to recent shots of politicians) and a multipaneled comic strip format to create a distinctive kind of postmodern editorial cartoon. Tomorrow lambastes mainstream U.S. politics and society from a left-progressive perspective that makes his counterparts in the mainstream press look like wimps (or paragons, depending on your perspective). Tomorrow ridicules Bill Clinton as savagely as he mocked George Bush in Greetings from the Modern World (1992), and he has plenty of venom to spare for the religious right, self-indulgent baby boomers, generation-Xers, the media (a target he attacks with special relish), and just about every other segment of the culture. Like any collection of editorial cartoons, the material has lost some of its immediacy (ridicule of Bush and Quayle that would have inspired outrage at the time now evokes nostalgia), but the novelty of Tomorrow's approach keeps his work surprisingly fresh. Gordon Flagg

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0312113447
• ISBN 13: 9780312113445
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128