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Title: When Penguins Attack! by Tom Tomorrow ISBN: 0-312-20974-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 16 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Same old same OLD
Comment: Tom Tomorrow writes "Family Circus" for Left-leaning folks. Both strips present pretty much the same old stuff over and over, using a limited number of templated formats. (Bill Keane: the ghost of "Not Me", Tom Tomorrow: three pannels of 1950s business guy spouting nonsense followed by penguin saying "you are spouting nonsense".) Both strips give their target audience nice, warm fuzzy re-enforcement ("Ah... cute little family" vs. "Ah... people that disagree with me are stupid")
See page 6 of the "sample content" TT actually describes one of his templates. I suppose he realizes that it won't really hurt his sales, the strip isn't about cleverness or humor so much as comforting group identification.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tom Tomorrow is a National Treasure
Comment: Nobody is safe from the barbs of Sparky, the cynical penguin who's had it with Didactic Republicans and Wimp Democrats. Easily the worlds wordiest cartoon, This Modern World is a strong dose of cynicism towards the White House, Congress, and the corporations that employ them both.
I'm sure the work of Tom Tomorrow will be one of the first things John Ashcroft has burned.
Sorry, did that raise your Red White and Blue hackles? Think Tom isn't a "REAL" American? Things have gotten to the point that criticism is considered traitorous? Then this book is for you.
Rating: 4
Summary: Cool comic
Comment:
If you're into social and political commentary, this comic is for you.
Tomorrow personally takes a lefty stance but he drops daisy cutters on the hypocrisy of politicians and his depiction of a snarling Cheney is enough to give you a coronary from laughing. Of course, Cheney's not in this book, since it's like from 98 to 2000.
He also does a good job of ripping on consumerism, though he's kind of barking up a false tree, like most people who rail against consumerism.
Overall, I look forward to reading this guy every Monday when he publishes. This book is a pretty good collection of his works, views, etc.
-- JJ Timmins
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Title: The Great Big Book of Tomorrow: A Treasury of Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow ISBN: 0312301774 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Penguin Soup for the Soul : A Novel by Tom Tomorrow ISBN: 0312193165 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Tune In Tomorrow by Tom Tomorrow ISBN: 0312113447 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Wrath of Sparky by Tom Tomorrow ISBN: 0312137532 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Greetings from the Modern World by Tom Tomorrow, Bill Griffith ISBN: 0312082037 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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