Tom Toro

Tom Toro is a New Yorker cartoonist and author/illustrator. His cartoons have been a popular feature of the New Yorker since 2010. His books include HOW TO POTTY TRAIN YOUR PORCUPINE (Little, Brown 2020), A USER'S GUIDE TO DEMOCRACY (Celadon Books, 2020), I'M TERRIFIED OF BATH TIME (Little, Brown 2022) and BACK TO SCHOOL, BACKPACK! (Little, Brown 2023) in collaboration with Simon Rich, and TINY HANDS (Dock Street Press, 2017). Tom was a finalist for the 2019 National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for gag cartoonist of the year. He contributed a dozen essays to the New Yorker Cartoon Encyclopedia, and his literary fiction has been shortlisted for the Disquiet International Literary Prize. Tom was an inaugural fellow at the Orchard Project

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