# Event Details - **Event Name**: Tom Toro: And To Think We Started As A Book Club - FREE EVENT - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 08 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm - **Event Description**: “Hilarious, whip-smart, and riveting.” - Seth MacFarlane You are invited to join this FREE EVENT with acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro. He will bring an evening of laughs and levity in celebration of his debut cartoon collection, AND TO THINK WE STARTED AS A BOOK CLUB... Tom will take us on a hilarious visual tour of the magazine's 100-year cartoon history, culminating in his own iconic contributions over recent years. Followed by an audience Q&A. We'll cap off the night just like The New Yorker ends every issue, with -- what else? -- a live caption contest. 5pm: Doors open for book signing, food and drink 6pm: Talk Left Bank Books will be selling books at Blue Strawberry that Tom will sign before and after the talk. Books will be on sale from Left Bank for $19.99 plus tax. Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author who has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His books include AND TO THINK WE STARTED AS A BOOK CLUB…(Andrews McMeel), CROCODILES NEED FRIENDS, TOO! (Little, Brown), BACK TO SCHOOL, BACKPACK! (Little, Brown) and I’M TERRIFIED OF BATH TIME (Little, Brown) with Simon Rich, HOW TO POTTY TRAIN YOUR PORCUPINE (Little, Brown), and A USER’S GUIDE TO DEMOCRACY (Celadon) with Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice. His cartoons also appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander and elsewhere. Tom’s fiction has been shortlisted for the Disquiet International Literary Prize. He was an inaugural fellow at the Orchard Project Episodic Lab in screenwriting, where he developed a mixed animated TV show, and was awarded a playwriting residency at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre Ground Floor. He has given presentations on cartooning at Columbia University, the Kansas City Art Institute, Litquake San Francisco, and Day of Knowledge in Mexico City. Tom 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 family, which somehow includes too many cats. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/st-louis/tom-toro-and-to-think-we-started-as-a-book-club-free-event/200029308027748 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment, contests, sports, theatre, back-to-school - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 21 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://bluestrawberrystl.com/show/detail/1868?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=st.+louis-events ## Event venue details - **city**: St. Louis - **state**: MO - **country**: United States - **location**: Blue Strawberry STL - **lat**: 38.6427 - **long**: -90.24965 - **full address**: Blue Strawberry STL, 364 N Boyle Ave, St Louis, MO 63108-2941, United States, St. Louis ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 2 - **organizer**: Blue Strawberry STL (https://allevents.in/org/blue-strawberry-stl/26004642) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/d02f1354cddd11f299cf4545a45f000aba213a4ac2ba9af4c9ab19c9aceaee87-rimg-w1200-h675-dc171108-gmir?v=1764967836 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/d76c4a1bcbfd2b3c293382e7abd23b8528b674995ad403d26358e66f06010a93-rimg-w300-h300-dc181006-gmir?v=1764967837 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Mon, 08 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Blue Strawberry STL, 364 N Boyle Ave, St Louis, MO 63108-2941, United States, St. Louis - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Blue Strawberry STL - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art, entertainment, contests, sports, theatre, back-to-school - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Tom Toro: And To Think We Started As A Book Club - FREE EVENT ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Tom Toro: And To Think We Started As A Book Club - FREE EVENT", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/d02f1354cddd11f299cf4545a45f000aba213a4ac2ba9af4c9ab19c9aceaee87-rimg-w1200-h675-dc171108-gmir?v=1764967836", "startDate": "2025-12-08", "url": "https://allevents.in/st-louis/tom-toro-and-to-think-we-started-as-a-book-club-free-event/200029308027748", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Blue Strawberry STL", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "364 N Boyle Ave, St Louis, MO 63108-2941, United States", "addressLocality": "St. Louis", "addressRegion": "MO", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "38.6427", "longitude": "-90.24965" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "“Hilarious, whip-smart, and riveting.” - Seth MacFarlane\n\nYou are invited to join this FREE EVENT with acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro. 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