Tuesday, December 23, 2008

A Double Dose Of Tom Tomorrow At Year's End

As we bid a fond goodbye to 2008, the year is reviewed by Tom Tomorrow in two installments of "This Modern World." If 2008 wasn't so great, will we be fine in 2009? If this is a (fair & balanced) farewell to the year that was, so be it.

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This Modern World — "2008 In Review: Parts I (Goodbye To All That) & II (The End Of An Error)"
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)

Part I

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Part II

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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.]

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