Hell in a Handbasket: Dispatched From the Country Formerly Known as America
Images inspired by vintage American advertising, science fiction, and Norman Rockwell idylls are, in his hands, the means by which to keep laughing instead of crying at the feral descent of our politics and culture.\ In his weekly cartoon strip, This Modern World, "Tom Tomorrow uses images traced from photographic references (running from 1950s advertising art to recent shots of politicians) and a multipaneled comic-strip format to create a distinctive kind of postmodern editorial cartoon,"...
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A chronicle of the worst years of our lives as seen through the eyes of cartoonist Tom Tomorrow. For years, Tom Tomorrow's acerbic and hilarious political cartoon, This Modern World, has been among the most recognizable and widely read in alternative press. In his first full-color compilation, Tom looks unflinchingly at what America has become in the years since 9/11 - and where it is likely headed. His cartoons give us a way to laugh instead of cry was we head toward Hell in a Handbasket. This anthology of more than 140 cartoons provides a starkly revealing snapshot of America's political culture at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
\ From Barnes & NobleThe New York Review of Books has called Tom Tomorrow's "This Modern World" "the sharpest strip currently going." Ann Coulter categorized its author is a sneering liberal. Whatever your political persuasion, Tomorrow's Hell in a Handbasket will engage your attention.\ \
