To makes sense of today's "This Modern World," The Dubster (aka the Alfred E. Newman clone) needs no explanation. However, Sparky and Blinky do merit comic strip hermeneutics. To that end, this blogger turned to the source of all knowledge:
[x Wikipedia]
Sparky the Wonder Penguin
Sparky can actually talk. Spark's first words in the strip are "George [H. W.] Bush is a wanker". A strong liberal advocate, he briefly became a Republican after being hit on the head with a random falling toilet.
Blinky the Dog
A small dog (Boston Terrier) who shares some of Sparky's political sympathies. Normally very mellow, he briefly became a radical when steroids were put into his food when he was intended to replace the then-Republican Sparky.
It will be a Happy New Year, beginning January 20, 2009. Praise the Lord (of your choice)! The Dubster will be gone and this blogger will be rotten glad of it. If this is (fair & balanced) anticipation, so be it.
[x Salon]
"Don't Let The Door Hit You In The Ass On The Way Out!"
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins 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 perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Salon 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, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001.]
Copyright © 2008 Salon Media Group, Inc.
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