Back on May 18, 2015, we experienced the suspension of disbelief when Sparky the Wonder Penguin was shot by a ski-mask-wearing gunman. Now, thanks to the magic of the funny papers, Sparky has miraculously recovered from three body-shots and is back in a feisty colloquy with Biff McNews from the cartoon version of Faux News. The 'toon portrays Biff and Sparky blocking an upcoming point/counterpoint Action McNews segment about gun violence. If this is (fair & balanced) Kabuki TV news, so be it.
[x This Modern World]
The Routine
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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