When Penguins Attack! [Paperback]

Tom Tomorrow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 16, 2000

As the country heads into the non-stop madness of a presidential election, there is nothing that it needs more than a dose of Tom Tomorrow's social and political satire. Read by more than twenty million readers, Tomorrow has his finger on the pulse of the times, to enthrall or enrage - and occasionally both - with his work. When Penguins Attack!!! brings back Sparky (the most dyspeptic cartoon animal in the business) and the rest of the cast as Tomorrow casts his perenially jaundiced eye on politics, the media, social trends, and everything else. So sit back and settle in, for Tomorrow is the cartoonist for today.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Tom Tomorrow is more than a cartoonist. He's a multi-media columnist, saying infinitely more with a combination of words and images than with words alone. And unlike even the best traditional political cartoonists, he does more than come up with clever images or wordplay to make a humorous political point. His strip informs." --New Haven Advocate

"Tomorrow takes wide, powerful swipes at our conspicuous consumerism, at the way mainstream media distort events, and how we all, whether we admit it or not, let the media interpret reality for us. Pretty heady stuff for cartoons. And awfully entertaining to boot." --Creative Loafing

"Sparky the Penguin is among the best of the new generation." --San Francisco Examiner

About the Author

Tom Tomorrow's work has appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, U.S. News Report, Salon, and The New Yorker as well as weekly in more than 100 newspapers across the country. He is the winner of the 1997 RFK Journalism Award. Word has it that he lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (September 16, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312209746
• ISBN-13: 978-0312209742
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,370,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tom Tomorrow is a National Treasure, November 4, 2002

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718 Session (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Penguins Attack! (Paperback)

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.

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tom has turned cynicism into a good, well crafted art form, September 12, 2000

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"aaron-c" (Missouri) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Penguins Attack! (Paperback)

These are his cartoons from 1998-early 2000. Relive the mind-numbing media orgy of that intern scandal, in the best way; through his eyes. Examine Tom Tommorrow moving past the threshold of sanity towards a surreal state of constructive cynicism. And it's all your fault! With all your force fed hype on that White House whore(who's name I can't utter due to perminent suppression), Y2K and all the other media tripe. You'll find his sarcastic, biting, cynicism from the introduction to the "about the author" page. All so very theripuetic. It's the biggest breakthrough since primal scream therapy.

He also is the most informed and enlightened cartoonist in the country. Genius is so underrated. Pick up any of his books and see for yourself.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool comic, July 9, 2002

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Jeremiah J. Timmins (Laconia, NH USA!) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When Penguins Attack! (Paperback)

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