Tom Toro
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Tom Toro

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Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author. He has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His debut children’s picture book HOW TO POTTY TRAIN YOUR PORCUPINE (Little, Brown 2020) is available for order now. He illustrated the civics book A USER'S GUIDE TO DEMOCRACY (Celadon Books, 2020), which is also available for order, and he is the author of the Trump cartoon collection TINY HANDS (Dock Street Press, 2017). Tom's cartoons appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander and elsewhere. He is a finalist for the National Cartoonist Society 2019 Reuben Award for gag cartoonist of the year. Tom has written short stories for the New Haven Review, Slush Pile and Litro (UK), as well as contributing a dozen essays to the New Yorker Cartoon Encyclopedia. Tom’s fiction has been shortlisted for the Disquiet International Literary Prize. He was an inaugural fellow at the Orchard Project Episodic Lab in screenwriting, where he developed a mixed animated TV show THE STRIP, and he was awarded a playwriting residency at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre Ground Floor. Tom has given presentations on cartooning at Columbia University, the Kansas City Art Institute, Litquake San Francisco, and Day of Knowledge in Mexico City. He attended NYU graduate film school, where he co-created films that played at Sundance, Tribeca and Cannes. Tom graduated cum laude from Yale, receiving 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 grew up in El Cerrito, California, where he was valedictorian of the local public high school. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, kid and cat.
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