TOON: Tom Tomorrow (Good Grief, Porter Goss!)

[Hissyspit]

[amitten]

1. So...this cartoon is pretty much the story of our lives now,

;( (Is this a sad smilie, or a badly-aged smilie? You be the judge!)

[Hissyspit]

4. To quote Charlie Brown: >sigh...

[truthisfreedom]

2. ack. that's exactly how i feel about the media.

[IChing]

5. nominated ...that football has been pulled out from us so many times

I feel like Charlie Brown sometimes

[Tom Joad]

8. The crazy media, how Tom began:

What was the catalyst that made you turn from making generalized social statements to depicting actual political figures?

Tom Tomorow: A very specific incident during the first Gulf War: I was out at a protest march in San Francisco—more than 100,000 people filling the streets as far as the eye could see. I got home and turned on the TV, and it just got the briefest mention on the news, and was immediately countered with a small demonstration in favor of the war—a dozen people in some suburban bedroom community. I called the TV station and yelled at an answering machine. And then suddenly I realized that I had this soapbox; politics had been creeping into it more and more, but somehow, I hadn't really made the conceptual leap into thinking of it as a political cartoon.

[bleever]

3. Gee-frickin-nyus.

Tom Tomorrow is the Patrick Fitzgerald of cartoonists.


Recommended.

[Nostradammit]

9. Ah yes, good analogy!

Tom Tomorrow makes it so painfully, hysterically obvious.

[Bucky]

6. Why is Lucy calling General Hayden "Charlie Brown"? Is that his code name?

Sure as hell should've been Goss's

[Tom Joad]

7. A little side-note. Tom did actually meet Charles Schulz, and if i

remember the story correctly, Schulz encouraged Tom (actually Dan Perkins).
Dan counts Charles Schulz as a huge influence, as well as MAD magazine. (Hey, i liked MAD magazine too).

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. another little side note...

When I was about 11, one of my friend's Grandfather taught me to draw Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and Lucy. Turns out he used to work with Shultz, many years earlier. :)

[ProfessorPlum]

11. I love This Modern World, but

I also have to wonder if Dan will be such a f*ing a** to Gore if runs again. He was a real "a pox on both of their houses" retard in the 2000 election.

Gore was depicted as a robot, complete with *click* *whirr* sounds.

Way to buy into the stupid media narrative on that one, Dan.

I for one share much of his political point of view, but I was not so stupid that I pretended their was no difference between Bush and Gore. The contrast was stark, and that the freak was allowed within stealing distance of the 2000 election is owed in great part to the death by 1,000 cuts that Gore suffered, from people like Tom Tomorrow.

Let's hope he gets and keeps his act together in the future.

[Tom Joad]

12. He didn't like Gore? gore, the man with such clear judgement that

he nominated Joe Lieberman as his running mate?
Gore, who supported deadly sanctions on Iraq, and the bombing of Iraq, while he was v.p.?
Gore, who was in an administration that signed the telecommuncations act... of behalf of the big boys in the telecommunications industry?
Gore, in the administration that gutted the safety net for the poor in a way that Reagan only dreamed?

That Gore?

[ProfessorPlum]

13. Please don't pretend that in 2000, even with all the problems that

Clinton and Gore had (I share your anger, especially about the telecom bill), that it wasn't obvious that Bush was a far worse choice. I was unhappy with a lot of what the Clinton administration was involved in, but not to the point of wondering whether I should vote for someone who was obviously a total puppet and tool for already dangerously powerful corporations.

[Hissyspit]

14. And in 2000 the most-certainly upcominging Supreme Court choices...

should have made it clear that having a Republican in office to make the nominations - possibly THREE of them - was extremely worrisome. I would argue that Dan was hoping that through his effort he might make a BETTER Gore candidate, but it was too risky to be buying into the false conventional wisdom of the time that there was no difference between the candidates - we'd heard that crap before and he should have known better.