In today's 'toon, Tom Tomorrow goes back in time to the Sunday after September 12, 1962, when President John F. Kennedy proclaimed that the United Sates would send men to the moom and bring them back safely. The ;toon focuses on the lamestream media commentariat of the early 1960s. The consensus was derisive. However, US astronauts landed in the moon on July 20, 1969, in a giant leap for mankind that fulfilled the earlier JFK pledge. And that, boys and girls, is how we got Tang. If this is (fair & balanced) mockery of stupidity, so be it.
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The Follow Of Aspiration (Monochrome TV)
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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