It's Tuesday, boys and girls. That means that it's time for Tom Tomorrow! Today, Sparky the Wonder Penguin tries to understand Dumbos like Biff. If this is a (fair & balanced) flight of irrationality, so be it.
[x Wikipedia]
"This Modern World" Characters
Dippy the Wonder-Penguin
Tom Tomorrow's original sidekick. His vocabulary was limited to "wank".
Sparky the Wonder Penguin
A sort of upgraded version of Dippy (who had been phased out by the time of Sparky's introduction), Sparky can actually talk. Similar to Dippy, 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.
Biff and Betty
Biff and Betty are two archetypes of 1950s people, who sometimes share their thoughts on the modern world. Biff often appears alone with Sparky, expressing a naive conservative opinion which invariably prompts a ranting liberal rebuttal from the penguin.
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"This Modern World" — The Biff & Sparky Show
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.]
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