Along with today's 'toon, Tom/Dan wrote:
No rest for the weary though; even though it’s the weekend I have to get right back to work getting ahead on the weekly strip because my trip to the Galway Arts Festival is coming up in about a week and a half. I’ll be speaking on the afternoon of July 22 if anyone on this list happens to be in Ireland. I got a nice full-page article in the Irish Times last week in anticipation of the gig; see if you can guess which subhed particularly delighted me.
Until next week ...
Dan (aka Tom)
And this blogger is grateful that Tom/Dan did not focus on the G20 meeting that swallowed up the media last week and focused instead on the health care melodrama with a critique of the Traitors' plot to destroy our health care system with the tired and shabby nostrum of the "free market." Which was a cue for Tom/Dan to bring back "The Invisible Hand Of The Market" wearing a head mirror, a stethoscope, and a white jacket to babble market nonsense to an obviously ill patient. If this is (fair & balanced) quackery, so be it.
[x TMW]
Dr. (Invisible) Hand (Of The Free Market)
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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