Too Much Crazy: Tom Tomorrow on Right-Wing Madness in the Age of Obama

http://www.alternet.org/books/150824/too_much_crazy%3A_tom_tomorrow_on_right-wing_madness_in_the_age_of_obama_/

Has the Right finally gone off the deep end?
May 3, 2011 |

Since its 1990 debut in the SF Weekly, This Modern World has been a staple of political cartoons in American alt-weeklies. And since that time, the world Tom Tomorrow created has been a refuge of both hilarity and sanity in our increasingly “post-factual” public discourse.

Tomorrow, with his cut-out 1950s visual style and wooden, brain-dead conservative zombies mouthing facile talking-points, deftly skewers the corporate media, with frequent guest appearances by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. It’s a world in which sane commentary is provided by “Sparky,” a cynical penguin in sunglasses, and a dog named “Blinky.”

Tomorrow has a new book compiling some of his best strips from the first years of the Obama era, and the utter derangement that his presidency has engendered on the right. AlterNet caught up with Tomorrow to discuss the book, American politics and the state of political cartoons in the age of the “new media.”

Joshua Holland: Tom, tell me about your new book.

Tom Tomorrow: It's a compilation of work from the past couple of years. It has a rather long foreword I wrote, kind of a defiant elegy for the profession, for my own profession. And it has a nice little introduction from Michael Moore.