Licensing for New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro is now exclusively available on CartoonStock! Tom Toro is a cartoonist and writer who has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His cartoons also appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander and elsewhere. His debut children’s picture book HOW…
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“Ogre in the Window” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
In Dave Borchart’s cartoon, two women are having tea in a living room. It’s a contemporary scene, but the woman with her back to a large picture window is dressed in medieval clothing. Staring through the window is a huge ogre, and it looks a lot like a Gahan Wilson creation (which may be Borchart’s…
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Anatomy of a Cartoon: The Stock Market
Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at the stock market. It climbs, it falls, sometimes it even crashes. Who would take a ride on such a thing? No, it’s not an amusement ride or an ultra-light…
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Anatomy of a Cartoon: The Vegetarian Option
Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at vegans and vegetarians. Vegetarianism and its stricter cousin, veganism, are gaining adherents as never before, embraced not just by college students and artsy types but by middle America. Exhibit…
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“Dueling Abductions” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
In Tom Toro’s cartoon, two flying saucers are trying to abduct the same person, who is caught in the competing tractor beams. An alien in one UFO is saying something to the alien in the rival UFO. The abductee looks like a wishbone about to be pulled apart, so my first and most obvious thought…
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