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29 Clever One-Panel Comics By Tom Toro That Show The World With A Twist (New Pics)
Interview With Artist
Tom Toro has a knack for turning everyday moments into funny, clever cartoons. Best known for his one-panel comics in The New Yorker and his comic strip Home Free, he finds humor in the little quirks of life, and sometimes in bigger issues too.
We’ve rounded up some of his latest cartoons for you to enjoy. Each one is a quick, witty snapshot of life that might make you laugh, think, or just appreciate the weirdness of the world around us.
And if you can’t get enough of Toro’s cartoons, there’s good news: his debut collection, And to Think We Started as a Book Club…, comes out on October 7th. The book brings together hundreds of his best New Yorker cartoons from the past fifteen years, plus plenty of previously unpublished gems that might just blow your mind. It’s the perfect way to dive deeper into Toro’s humor—and maybe even find a few “undiscovered masterpieces” to love.
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Tom Toro didn’t become a cartoonist overnight. He shared that it took 609 attempts before his first cartoon was published in 2010. Looking back, he joked, “To say thank you, losers,” referring to all the rejections that helped him grow as an artist. For Toro, the ups and downs of the creative life are just part of the journey—and, as he puts it, “I think the rejection and suffering is a perversely attractive part of the job. If anything, it forges a community of survivors.”
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When it comes to creating a single-panel cartoon, Toro keeps things simple. He explained, “Trying to say something is the worst way of saying something.” In other words, the magic comes from letting the joke (or the idea) land naturally rather than forcing a message. It’s this light touch that makes his comics feel effortless, even when they’re commenting on bigger themes like politics or climate change.
Toro also credits boredom as a secret weapon for creativity. “Your brain will begin to entertain itself,” he said, describing how sitting with nothing to do often sparks the best ideas. From doodling in schoolbooks to sketching favorite moments from The Little Mermaid, his early experiences shaped the way he approaches humor, timing, and storytelling in his art.
Toro’s cartoons aren’t just about laughs; they also invite reflection. Through collaborations with organizations like Yale Climate Connections, he’s found a way to turn complex topics like sea-level rise or superstorms into digestible, funny, and thought-provoking visuals. “If our readers are amused by the cartoons and intrigued, then hopefully it will inspire them to learn more,” he explained.
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Janissary35680 2 months ago (edited)
The highlight of my happiest excursions into the city when I was old enough to make them on my own. The day started early as possible aboard an intercity bus followed by a browse at Sam Goody's record store, a visit to a nearby bookshop for something to read, and a brisk walk up to Central Park to position myself as close to the head of the queue as possible where there were still benches to sit on while I read the record liner notes and book and waited patiently for the tickets to be handed out in the early afternoon. Spend as much time as possible over a late lunch somewhere nearby and kıll some more time until the show started. Then back to Port Authority to catch a bus to Passaic NJ.
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liam newton-harding 2 months ago
It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. - At The Mountains Of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft.
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Andrew Keir 2 months ago
People *can* work together, but the multinational firms will prevent it happening.
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Andrew Keir 2 months ago
Climate change is clearly something that affects us all, so it seems a good idea to tackle it top-down - unfortunately, that's not a solution. But how do you organise something to happen bottom-up?
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keyboardtek 2 months ago
Ha! I used to repair synthesizers and electronic keyboards. One brand used a water based glue to cement the metal key weights under the keys. In the Southern hot climates, that glue would melt and the keyboard would be ruined.
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Andrew Keir 2 months ago
To sav BP the trouble, I've self-censored the first three things I thought of when I saw this ...
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General Anaesthesia 2 months ago
May the Idiocracy flourish. For example: "AI Overview": GoogleAI-2...bae65b.jpg 
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