Tom Toro has just published a new collection of his New Yorker cartoons, “And to Think We Started as a Book Club.”

The cartoons are from the last 15 years his cartoons have been running in the magazine and are grouped in sections, from Life, Love and Family to Work, Tech and Weird.

Some comment on modern life wordlessly, like a teenager in the rain holding a mini-umbrella over his phone while he texts. Most combine graphics with commentary, like a man in a ragged suit sitting around a campfire with a few children captioned, “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

Many, like the one pictured above with angels making “snow humans,” are what Toro calls pure palette cleansers, a much-needed break from weighty matters of the day.

Toro joins us to discuss how he approaches his art and what it’s been like to comment on the last 15 years for one of the nation’s most illustrious magazines on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.

The book is out Tuesday, and its official launch is at 7 p.m. Friday at Powell’s Books on Burnside.

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