Spoiler alert: today's Tom Tomorrow 'toon contains graphic, shocking violence. Full disclosure: this blogger took Tom Tomorrow at his word that a subscription to Sparky's List might contribute to Spark's recovery. That said, there is a possibility that the next Tomorrow 'toon will feature a small casket with a pair of Inuit-style bull$hit-blindness goggles on the lid. That will be a sad day on "This Modern World." At least today, Wanda and Biff of Action McNews are struck dumb after the shots ring out. If this is a (fair & balanced) example of art imitating life, so be it.
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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 blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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