In an e-mail message that accompanied this week's TMW 'toon, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) wrote:
I’ve decided to retire the “Incredible Trump” character, at least for awhile — at this point, it almost seems too flattering a caricature. Baby-Man captures something much more fundamental about his temperament — it’s not just about rage, it’s about complete and utter solipsism. I had a friendly argument with a reporter I know when I was at the DNC last summer — he believed quite firmly that Trump had no “superpowers” and had no chance of winning the election; I countered that his complete lack of shame *was* his superpower.
If this is a (fair & balanced) illustration of an unlikely superpower: "shamelessness," so be it.
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The Unbelievable Baby-Man
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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