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Tom Toro’s favorite Tom Toro cartoons about climate change
Tom Toro, who’s been cartooning his way through existential dread at Yale Climate Connections since 2019, has a new cartoon collection out today. It’s called “And to think we started as a book club,” and you can get it from your favorite bookstore.
Sara Peach for Yale Climate Connections interviews Tom Toro.
Sara Peach: What was your motivation to start (and continue) creating cartoons about climate change?
Tom Toro: I’ve always been an environmentalist at heart. As a kid, I’d go to Earth Day cleanup activities around the Bay Area with my family, and I’d spend summers on my grandparents’ farm in Ohio. Nature spoke to me. Sometimes in profound ways, like the afternoon in fifth grade when I came home from school and had a sudden panic attack because I realized that I couldn’t make a snack for myself without creating garbage. But sometimes in silly ways, like the long conversations I’d have with my cat in a made-up language. I guess it’s this mixture of crisis and comedy, both stemming from my lifelong connection to the natural world, that made creating cartoons about climate change a perfect fit.
Peach: What are your favorite two or three cartoons that you’ve contributed to Yale Climate Connections over the years?
Toro: You’re asking me to pick favorites among my babies!
But Tom does pick his favorite.
Tom Toro is making a splash with his new book!
From Portland Oregon and KOIN is a 5 and a half minute segment featuring the Cartoonist.
A Portland-based cartoonist with The New Yorker is launching a new book he describes as a “grenade of joy.”
Tom Toro is out with his debut collection, And to Think We Started as a Book Club, compiling nearly 200 selections of his rib-tickling work.
From Oregon Public Broadcasting:
Tom Toro has just published a new collection of his New Yorker cartoons, “And to Think We Started as a Book Club.”
The cartoons are from the last 15 years his cartoons have been running in the magazine and are grouped in sections, from Life, Love and Family to Work, Tech and Weird.
No, it’s not just the Pacific Northwest.
A seven and a half audio interview via Virginia Public Media.
Coming up on October 16 at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck along the Hudson is a Tom Toro greet and meet in conversation with fellow cartoonist Michael Maslin.
What can Leonardo DiCaprio, Bernie Sanders, Greta Thunberg, and Elon Musk all agree on? That Tom Toro’s cartoons belong in their social media feeds. Now, with this debut collection by one of The New Yorker’s contemporary stars, everybody can enjoy the timeless witticism and thigh-slapping wisecracks of Toro’s cartoons without needing to go online.
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet celebrated New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro!
29 Clever One-Panel Comics By Tom Toro
Tom Toro has a knack for turning everyday moments into funny, clever cartoons. Best known for his one-panel comics in The New Yorker and his comic strip Home Free, he finds humor in the little quirks of life, and sometimes in bigger issues too.
We’ve rounded up some of his latest cartoons for you to enjoy.
Bored Panda presents a selection of Tom Toro cartoons with a few comments by the cartoonist.
The Borowitz Report downplays their opinion of Toro (scroll down):
The brilliant Tom Toro is one of the funniest cartoonists on the planet, and his amazing new collection, And to Think We Started as a Book Club…,is TBR’s October Book of the Month!
Back home.
“I’ve embraced the brand of the West Coast New Yorker cartoonist,” Tom Toro said, sitting in his quaint Rose City home.
Portland Tribune profiled Tom in the Columbia County Spotlight.
Late add ‘cuz I just read my mail…
Join Jason Chatfield tomorrow (October 8 despite the graphic above) for a FREE livestream at 12:00pm Eastern for a conversation with Tom Toro—New Yorker cartoonist and Author of a brand new book Out Today!
This is Tom’s second appearance on the show, and if the first session was any indication, we’re in for a proper conversation about the craft. Last time, we covered everything from pen nibs to the peculiar psychological warfare of the New Yorker cartoon caption contest. Tomorrow, I’m curious to dig into his process—the man’s published a debut collection of 15 years of his work, writes a Substack called “Undiscovered Masterpieces” [link added], and somehow finds time to illustrate children’s books between existential cartoons about capitalism.
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