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Summary: Enjoyable read
Review: I got turned onto "This Modern World" by reading the author's cartoons on salon, then reading his website.You can't read this all in one sitting, which is perhaps a good thing - makes the book last longer! I find the "clip art" style to be interesting, but not something I can read for hours at a time. If you can't handle mockery of recent presidents, beware - they all get skewered in these pages.
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Summary: Entertainment, Truth and Long-Lasting Flavor
Review: I highly recommend this book for three reasons: entertainment, truth, and long-lasting flavor. First, if you're a fan of Tom Tomorrow's work as I am, you'll have more than a simple collection of past and recent work to enjoy -- you'll also find out how he got started as a cartoonist, complete with reprints of some early 'zine work. Cartoonists often reprint early work so that fans can see the development of the characters (and the cartoonist's illustration and writing skills) over time. In this book, however, Tom's earliest work turns out to be unusually polished and really, really funny from day one. I'm reasonably sure the work from his early 'zine has escaped the notice of all but his hardest-core fans. To me, that material alone was worth the price. This was an unusual and pleasant surprise. Second, it was equally surprising (although not nearly as delightful) to experience the starkness and clarity with which Tom's early and recent works present the realities of the society we live in, not just from a political perspective, but from a sociological one. Is his work biased? Absolutely, and without a doubt. It is, however, a consistent and exceptionally well-informed bias that servers to reinforce the underlying truths of his work. No matter what end of the political -- or social -- spectrum you place yourself at, you'll find much to make you laugh, and many things to make you reconsider, or at least momentarily question, your own beliefs and behaviors. Third, and finally, this book seems to last longer than it should. I consume books at a rapid pace, and cartoon compendiums such as this tend to go through me like water. With this book, however, I found myself bookmarking the page with the expectation that I was nearly at the end, only to discover that I had at least half the book to go. I know that sounds trite, but let's face it: if you're having a good time, you don't want it to end. Well worth the money, and I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Great recent cartoons plus a history of the strip
Review: I spent an enjoyable night dipping into this collection last week. Over and above the expected cartoons since the last collection several years back, this large omnibus has cartoons from the whole run, with occasional commentary captions by the author. The extras such as magazine covers and cartoons for magazines such as the New Yorker were also unexpected, but great bonuses. I recommend this collection wholeheartedly.
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Summary: An enlightening retrospective
Review: I thought this book was a great collection of comics. It is thoroughly entertaining. I was also amazed at some of the similarities in the mismanagement styles between the two Bush's administrations. Looking back and comparing the problems of the past, I was surprised at how much of it I had forgotten. The side-by-side comparisons of the past and the present were enlightening. Oh, and also the strips are quite funny, when they are not enraging you at the injustice of it all.
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Summary: The divine Tom Tomorrow
Review: If God were a cartoonist, his work would look a lot like this. Tom Tomorrow's insight is piercing, and his satire bites hard. Plus, the man can draw.
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Summary: Great stuff
Review: If you know Tom Tomorrow's stuff, you'll love this book. If you have never seen him before, you'll love this book. He's brilliant, insightful, and damn funny. This is great stuff.
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Summary: Tom Tomorrow, Funny! Smug Reviewer, Not!
Review: If you want to take the word of some @s$hat who thinks he's smarter than you, go right ahead. It may surprise him to learn that there are lots of well-informed, thoughtful and intelligent people in 'middle America' who like Tom Tomorrow's work. And a lot of them don't make stupidly prejudiced statements and don't think that all New Yorkers are jerks based on the ramblings of one jerk who happens to be from New York. But then, what do I know? I'm from the South. Maybe 'A reader' thinks I just look at the pictures.
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Summary: Great!
Review: If you're a fan of Tom Tommorrow, or intelligent political commentary, here's your book!
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Summary: Fantastic for both long-time and brand-new readers
Review: If you've never read a collection of Tom Tomorrow's work, this book covers everything in the This Modern World history. If you own any/all of Tom's previous books, you're getting more than your money's worth with stuff that's never been printed before: aside from a 12-year selection of TMW's best, the book's got a color section with (finally!) reprints of all the great stuff he's done for the Prospect and the Village Voice (unless you lived in NYC like I did, odds are you never saw the "Sensation" and Impeachment full-pagers in glorious full-color before- now you can!) and even early pre-Sparky cartoons. "The Great Big Book of Tomorrow" is perfect for long-time readers eager to be rewarded for their long-time devotion, while offering an ample opportunity for newbies to enter the wonderful world of subversive cartoons that exceed any single-panel simplicity ever published in the mainstream press. If you're going to start reading intelligent cartoons, you might as well start with the best and the brightest.
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Summary: Truth and Humor, A Potent Brew
Review: Is the right-wing media takeover now extending to Amazon book reviews too? Will they stop at nothing? Thank goodness we have Tom Tomorrow! There's more truth in a single Tom Tomorrow cartoon then there will be in the entire George W. Bush III Library (all 50 hand-doodled pages of it). Tomorrow manages to pack intense political insights into his cartoon, and still make them funny. The consistent quality of his wit is apparent throughout this book. He avoids the cliche's that plague so many editorial cartoonists There's no "Elephant Walking a Tightrope" kind of symbolism here! Just great social commentary combined with enough laugh-out-loud funny business to keep us all from despair.
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