Letters to the Editor
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Obsolete
Dear Tom Tomorrow,
You seemed to have turned a corner. At one point in your career you addressed vital issues that few were covering or dared to touch. Now you seem to be sleepwalking through your job: Draw some hilariously retro 1950's businesmen and housewives arguing for the conservative corporate estabblishment and -- Boom! -- There's your cartoon for the week. It never varies, you seem to repeat the same messages endlessly and you never show any signs of hope, just droll criticism for a hopeless future. I myself am a depressing cynic and you are bumming me out! But this isn't just about politics, it's about the corners that cartoonists back themselves into when they draw a comic that they are no longer interested in really making, were it not for the steady paycheck: Groening, Schulz, Davis, Breathed and now, so it would seem, Mr. Tomorrow. I realize that you probably make substantially less than any of those dudes, but the result is no more readable.