Collaborate with New Yorker cartoonist and author Tom Toro on a one-of-a-kind work of illustrated genius. Choose a topic or inspiration for Tom to create an original cartoon just for you!

Tom Toro is a New Yorker cartoonist and author. His debut children's picture book How to Potty Train Your Porcupine was published this spring by Little, Brown. He drew the illustrations for the upcoming civics book A User's Guide to Democracy, which is coming out in September through Celadon Books. Tom's cartoons have been a beloved feature of The New Yorker since 2010, and his drawings also appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, The New York Times, Air Mail, American Bystander, and elsewhere. Tom is a finalist for the National Cartoonist Society 2019 Reuben Award for gag cartoonist of the year. His short fiction has been nominated for the Disquiet International Literary Prize. Tom 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. 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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