{"id":17762,"date":"2025-10-07T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=17762"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:55:32","slug":"episode-657-tom-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-657-tom-tomorrow","title":{"rendered":"Episode 657 &#8211; Tom Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_657_-_Tom_Tomorrow.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Memories Show 657:<br \/>\nTom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9243\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17762-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_657_-_Tom_Tomorrow.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_657_-_Tom_Tomorrow.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_657_-_Tom_Tomorrow.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_657_-_Tom_Tomorrow.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=17762-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_657_-_Tom_Tomorrow.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Episode_657_-_Tom_Tomorrow.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Every week is a battle between my deadline and my self-loathing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/tomorrow\/our-long-national-nightmare-by-tom-tomorrow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17763\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-657-tom-tomorrow\/screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4-33-49-pm\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?fit=1698%2C1708\" data-orig-size=\"1698,1708\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot 2025-10-04 at 4.33.49?PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?fit=525%2C528\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17763\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?resize=280%2C282\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?resize=437%2C440 437w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?resize=616%2C620 616w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?resize=170%2C170 170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?resize=768%2C773 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?resize=1527%2C1536 1527w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?resize=100%2C100 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?w=1698 1698w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-10-04-at-4.33.49-PM.png?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Political cartoonist <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/tomtomorrow.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a> (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) is back as we celebrate his new Kickstarter project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/tomorrow\/our-long-national-nightmare-by-tom-tomorrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE<\/a> (closing Oct. 30, 2025), collecting 5+ years of weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/blogs\/Tom%20Tomorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Modern World<\/a> cartoons! We talk about how he keeps his sanity (well, <em>tries<\/em> to), what it was like to look back at the past half-decade week by week, why he decided not to go down a rabbit-hole of extra material for the project, and what it means to have a bookshelf of his strips (and not just pixels on a screen). We get into the importance of his <a href=\"https:\/\/thismodernworld.com\/subscriptions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sparky&#8217;s List newsletter<\/a> as the media landscape keeps withering away, his writing process and how the, um, of this administration compels him to build some flexibility each week, and the realization that he&#8217;s made a major body of work over the past four decades. We also discuss his major life changes since we last recorded, the good and bad of Being Very Online, his love of Martin Cruz Smith&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookseriesinorder.com\/arkady-renko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arkady Renko mystery novels<\/a>, what makes him a New Yorker, and the impossibly fraught question of <em>what brings him joy<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_657_-_Tom_Tomorrow.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give it a listen!<\/a> And go support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/tomorrow\/our-long-national-nightmare-by-tom-tomorrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Doing a kickstarter is like when a rock musician does a stage dive; you have to trust to audience to catch you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/StHHYxTaqwU?si=7LpTgCJCPIYZOU2e\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My job is kinda like being a sewage system worker. I pull on the high boots and I climb down into the sewer every day.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/episode-657-tom-tomorrow\/id531173075?i=1000730685772\" height=\"175\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been publishing books since 1992. It&#8217;s part of what I do, part of the whole thing that is the Tom Tomorrow Experience.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/0sDIeKcF8A4xNXICDIOVhD?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Things change so quickly that if I don&#8217;t use an idea the week I write it, I might be able to pull out a line or joke, but there&#8217;s a LOT of rewriting.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/virtualmemories\/Episode_657_-_Tom_Tomorrow.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes!<\/p>\n<p>Lots of ways to follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em>! <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/vmspod.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BlueSky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vmspod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXoLbP-9GbhHJZpCQP5TR5A\/videos?view_as=subscriber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good ol&#8217; RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom Tomorrow is a Herblock and RFK Award winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and creator of the weekly cartoon <em>This Modern World<\/em>. (Longer bio <a href=\"https:\/\/thismodernworld.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Follow Tom Tomorrow on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/tomtomorrow.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/realtomtomorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/thismodernworld.com\/subscriptions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sparky&#8217;s List<\/a>, and check out his merch from <a href=\"https:\/\/topatoco.com\/collections\/this-modern-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Topatoco<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tomtomorrow.threadless.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Threadless<\/a>. Oh, and you can also follow <em>This Modern World<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyview.com\/this-modern-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TinyView<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/blogs\/Tom%20Tomorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Kos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>And go listen to our <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-125-signal-boost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-161-dan-perkins-tom-tomorrow-live-njpoet-corner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/covid-check-in-with-tom-tomorrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020<\/a> conversations!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Fella<em>\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/may4th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hal Mayforth<\/a>, used with permission from\u00a0the artist. The conversation was recorded at an undisclosed location on a pair of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Rvj3R6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue enCORE 200<\/a> microphones feeding into a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Q9Br0z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zoom PodTrak P4<\/a> digital recorder &amp; interface. I recorded the intro and outro on a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3cGZ1Em\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heil PR-40 Dynamic Studio Recording Microphone<\/a> feeding into a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Q9Br0z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zoom PodTrak P4<\/a>. All processing and editing done in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3RwlQsW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe Audition CC<\/a>. Photo of Tom\/Dan by Greg Pak. It&#8217;s on my <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show 657: Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) &#8220;Every week is a battle between my deadline and my self-loathing.&#8221; Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) is back as we celebrate his new Kickstarter project, OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE (closing Oct. 30, 2025), collecting 5+ years of weekly This Modern World cartoons! 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