"No Spin Zone" and "Truth In Broadcasting" are phrases that echo daily over the radio and through coaxial cable to television sets across the fruited plain (to quote one blowhard). A small voice confronting this onslaught of snide remarks, sneers, and cant comes from a little penguin who wears wraparound shades or retro 3-D glasses. Perhaps the eyewear enables Sparky the Wonder Penguin to see through all of the male bovine excrement that passes for "journalism" these days. If this is (fair & balanced) tit for tat, so be it.
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Cast in this strip:
Sparky the Wonder Penguin — Spark's first words in the strip (back in the early 1990s) were "George [H. W.] Bush is a wanker". A strong liberal advocate, Sparky briefly became a Republican after being hit on the head with a random falling toilet.
The Mindless Mullet — Everyman who listens to the bloviating voices of the EIB Network, featuring the big, fat Oxycodone addict and Faux News, featuring the Worst Person In The World.
[Dan Perkins (born 5 April 1961 in Wichita, Kansas) is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip This Modern World, which comments on current events from a strong liberal populist perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Salon.com and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly.
Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002.
When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, he writes a daily political weblog, also entitled This Modern World, which he began in December 2001.]
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