25 Years of Tomorrow Kickstarter Campaign has been funded! :) Lots of signed Ed & Pearl Jam goodies!

cp3iverson

Grabbed one. I may have to sell some rare vinyl to pay for this lol. Look for a post soon in Lost Dogs

igotid88

guitar is gone

wpg pearl

7 left

demetrios

http://thismodernworld.com/kickstarter

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VARIOUS RARE PICKS available at different tiers! (Please read reward descriptions on the Kickstarter page carefully for details!)



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TAMBOURINE EDITION: signed Eddie Vedder tambourine, guaranteed stage-used with note of authenticity from Ed!



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SIGNED EDDIE VEDDER GUITAR
Guitar from Eddie Vedder’s personal collection, with two-page note explaining its history! The song “Off He Goes” was written on this guitar. The inscription reads, “This old guitar … Eddie Vedder”







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BACKSPACER EDITION: albums signed by all five members of the band!

wpg pearl

only 3 signed Backspacers left moving fast 57 K raised

lexicondevil

Had to bite on the signed Backspacer. Only one left as of now.

nippleholic

scott nowland

Damn cant believe I missed this. Damn australian time and being at work. If anyone is having buyers remorse or is in trouble with the mrs for buying or on the off chance someone bought one just for the picks, im willing to buy the backspacer alone for $500. Pm me if selling

demetrios

Keep checking back the next few day's for added goodies.

Also follow Tom Tomorrow over @ https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow for updates. Will try my best to update this thread.

cp3iverson

demetrios said:

http://thismodernworld.com/kickstarter

BACKSPACER EDITION: albums signed by all five members of the band!

$500 seems like a steal to get an album signed by all members. Thats an unbelievable collectible IMO. I figured id enjoy that more than trying to get Lost Dogs and Rearviewmirror on vinyl

demetrios

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/07/tom-tomorrow-25-years-kickstarter



Tom Tomorrow Celebrates 25 Years of Cartooning With a Massive Retrospective
If you're old enough to know who Sparky the penguin is, you'll want to own this book.

—By Dave Gilson
| Mon Jul. 6, 2015 6:00 AM EDT

Tom Tomorrow

The average lifespan of an Antarctic emperor penguin is 15 to 20 years. The average lifespan of an American comic strip is probably far shorter. Both are reasons to celebrate the 25th anniversary of This Modern World, Tom Tomorrow's unconventional political comic strip starring the endearingly acerbic Sparky the penguin.

Earlier this year, Tomorrow (AKA Dan Perkins) was nominated for a Pulitzer—not bad for an independent cartoonist who got his start in zines and alt-weeklies and survived the bumpy switch from newsprint to pixels, not to mention two Bush administrations. To commemorate this odds-defying accomplishment, Tomorrow has spent the past year tracking down just about everything he's drawn since 1990 and compiling it in a massive, two-volume set that he's self-publishing through a just-launched Kickstarter campaign. In addition to the awesome-looking collection, incentives for funding the project include a stuffed Sparky, swag from TMW pals Pearl Jam, and a chance to indelibly ink Tomorrow with an image of America's favorite flightless political observer.

Mother Jones: Sorry to put a damper on things, but I heard that print is dead. What are you doing compiling a 1,000-page, 15-pound set of volumes for people to buy?

Tom Tomorrow: The same people who say that print is dead are the same people who say that the future of print is artisanal. And I see this as a very artisanal project!

MJ: Tell me how you got the idea to put together almost everything you've done over 25 years.
this modern world



A mockup of the 25-year This Modern World compendium Tom Tomorrow

TT: A couple of years ago, I ran across this big Taschen two-volume set of midcentury advertising. As I was looking at this whole package, something just clicked because I realized that my 25th anniversary was coming up. I always mark 1990 as the real start of my career because that's when the strip started getting picked up; it's when it stared getting political. (It's a little bit of an arbitrary date; really if you wanted to mark an anniversary it would have to be when I turned five, because I always drew cartoons as a kid.) But 1990 effectively marks 25 years as a professional cartoonist, and that's a big chunk of my life. And I thought it shouldn't pass without marking the moment.

MJ: Has going though 25 years of work been nostalgic?

TT: I wouldn't say it's been nostalgic. Initially, it was horrifying! The very early work, it makes me cringe a little bit. And then it gets pretty good within a couple of years, and I was relieved to find I was actually proud of it. A lot of this stuff I hadn't read in 20, 25 years. I was kind of surprised how well it held up, honestly.

MJ: Well, you've been hitting so many of the same themes throughout your career. Which topics or throughlines did you see as you went through your work?

TT: Certainly gun control, on which we've made almost no progress in 25 years. Heath care is a very interesting one as a person who's been a freelancer for 25 years. For a country that celebrates entrepreneurship, the peculiar American linkage of health care to employment status is puzzling. Obviously we have made progress on that one.

MJ: Some of the political figures, like the Clintons and Bushes, haven't changed.

TT: Yeah, I'm looking at all these years I've spent writing about the Bush family and hoping I don't have to do that beyond this next election.
sparky the penguin.


Sparky, always the optimist Tom Tomorrow

MJ: How has your perspective on the strip changed?

TT: In 1990 there was no internet, there were no blogs, there was no social media. In those days I really viewed the strip as a vehicle for conveying information that people might not have had access to elsewhere. I don't see it quite in that light anymore; I assume people know how to use search engines. I think it's gotten a little more playful and less didactic. It's still the wordiest strip out there, but less than it used to be.

MJ: One of incentives for the stretch goals is that if you read your top goal, you will get a Sparky tattoo.

TT: It would be my first tattoo of my own creation. It's crazy expensive to make this; all the money is going to printers and to everyone that I've been working with who deserve to be paid for their work. It's been a tremendous amount of work to get this stuff located and scanned and sequenced. It's a labor of love until we hit some stretch goals. If we reach them, I was just trying to think of some extravagant gesture to show how much that would mean to me. So I just threw in the tattoo. I honestly didn't think about it a lot. I may come to regret it!


The world meets Sparky, 1991 Tom Tomorrow

Make Tom Tomorrow's regrets—and dreams!—a reality at his Kickstarter page.

PP193448

OMG. I wanted that guitar. But whew...saved me a shit load of money and my marriage since someone already snatched that up!!!

disilluzion

I was at the page when they had 10 left, but couldn't pull the trigger on a signed vinyl for $500.

That seems crazy high to me, but maybe that's just me.

I was hesitant on buying Megadeth's new album signed for $75, until I saw how fast they were selling out. Remembering that, this was a definite no for me.

You PJ people are crazy!!!

jjflash

demetrios said:

Keep checking back the next few day's for added goodies.

Also follow Tom Tomorrow over @ https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow for updates. Will try my best to update this thread.

I hear ya. Good chance there will be more PJ stuff be offered based on Tom's targeted "Stretch Goals". Excited for TT/DP that he's so close so quickly to hitting his funding goal.

on2legs

disilluzion said:

I was at the page when they had 10 left, but couldn't pull the trigger on a signed vinyl for $500.

That seems crazy high to me, but maybe that's just me.

I was hesitant on buying Megadeth's new album signed for $75, until I saw how fast they were selling out. Remembering that, this was a definite no for me.

You PJ people are crazy!!!

I don't think $500 is crazy high especially when you have the guarantee of it being genuine since it is coming right from the band. You would pay almost that much on eBay where 90% of autographs are fakes. If I was intent on getting an album autographed this would be the route to go even if you have to pay a little bit more. A genuine album that cost $500 is much better than a fake that costs $400.

wpg pearl

You also get the book and some other stuff.....great deal IMO

elwayvedder

get the book folks...potential for some Backspacer art work or drafts that maybe didn't make the album? That would be cool

demetrios

elwayvedder said:

get the book folks...potential for some Backspacer art work or drafts that maybe didn't make the album? That would be cool

Indeed!

cp3iverson

yeah its almost impossible to get an item (let alone vinyl) signed by all of the guys and know that its authentic. Charity stuff and the rare 10club contests really.

The way i view it. Theyre my generation's Stones. This is going to be amazing hanging in the bonus room

jjflash

demetrios said:

elwayvedder said:

get the book folks...potential for some Backspacer art work or drafts that maybe didn't make the album? That would be cool

Indeed!

From the Kickstarter page: "I have several pages on the Pearl Jam collaboration, including photos and art that have never been made public before."