Nearly 150 years ago, Thomas Nast, in editorial cartoons in both Harper’s Weekly and the The New York Times, attacked the corruption in The Big Apple. One of Nast's principal targets was William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of the Democratic party in NYC. Boss Tweed supposedly said of Nast's editorial cartoons, "I don't care what they write about me, it's them damn pitchers." Today, we have the pitchers drawn by Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins). In the spirit of the times, Tom Tomorrow envisions Sparky the Wonder Penguin in a kinky sex scene with Regis Philbin! If this is (fair & balanced) sexual imagination, so be it.
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This Modern World — "More To The Picture"
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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