Tomorrow is Another brt

In ‘Tomorrow is Another brt’ Bart Schoofs (who signs his work ‘brt’) takes aim at our society both extensively and with great precision. On each of the meticulously composed pages he immerses himself in a different subject, without always trying to work towards a particular punch line – the humour never resides entirely in the final frame. He extrapolates brilliantly upon existing concepts, to the point of absurdity, for example by proposing new days of commemoration such as the ‘Day of the Affronted Boomer’ and the ‘Day of the Healthy Hetero’, or the Familidentify app, which helps you to put a name to the people at your family celebration (including the caterer who got such a friendly reception that he decided to stay).

Although he mainly pokes fun, with obvious pleasure, at anti-wokers, conscious and unconscious racists or climate-change deniers, nobody is safe from Schoofs, not even himself. Despite the resistance he regularly encounters on social media because of the sharpness of his drawing pen, he demonstrates with verve that you are best able to have a good laugh with others if you can laugh at yourself: self-mockery as a precondition of existence.