Tom Tomorrow
To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.Collection: Jobs
Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.Collection: People
I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.Collection: Eye
Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space someCollection: Space
My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.Collection: People
My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.Collection: Growing Up
I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.Collection: Fun
Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.Collection: Powerful