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TOM TORO at Books Inc. Alameda
Tom Toro is an award winning cartoonist and author who has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His books include I’M TERRIFIED OF BATH TIME with Simon Rich, HOW TO POTTY TRAIN YOUR PORCUPINE, and A USER’S GUIDE TO DEMOCRACY with Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice.
His cartoons also appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander and elsewhere.
His collection of Trump cartoons TINY HANDS was published in 2017.
He was awarded a playwriting residency at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre Ground Floor. Tom is currently working on a graphic memoir about becoming an artist during turbulent times. He has given presentations on cartooning at Columbia University, the Kansas City Art Institute, Litquake San Francisco, and Day of Knowledge in Mexico City.
Tom attended NYU graduate film school, where he co-created films that played at Sundance, Tribeca and Cannes. He graduated cum laude from Yale, where he received the Betts Prize for his literary work while also serving as captain of the national-champion lightweight rowing team and cartoon editor for the Yale Herald. Tom lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, kid and cat.
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