Today, Tom Tomorrow provides another newscast from faraway Glox with two anchor-aliens. Their newscast resembles -Fox- Faux News, and their reports about news are strikingly similar to those on earth, but in a factual science orientated terminology ("Coneheads"-style), thereby making fun of the public obsession with sexual acts of public figures by referring to the global importance of touching reproductive organs. Today, the Glox News team reviews the current Siri'Uh crisis. Of course, the anchor-aliens cut away to "important messages" in the final panel. If this is (fair & balanced) galactic satire, so be it.
[x This Modern World]
The News From Planet Glox
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 Daily Kos. 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. Earlier this year, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.]
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