Tom/Dan wrote in the e-mail that brought today's TMW 'toon:
I wrote this on Thursday morning, inspired by the revelation that Trump had lied about something as fact-checkable as phone calls from the Boy Scouts and the president of Mexico. About two hours later, the transcripts of his January phone calls with the leaders of Mexico and Australia were published by the Washington Post, and for a brief moment I wondered if *that* phone call story would override the phone call story I had based my cartoon on, which is basically my life in a nutshell these days. I was texting a cartoonist friend about it when it occurred to me that there’d probably be some other story by the end of the day that we’d be talking about instead, and in fact there was when news broke that Mueller has impaneled a grand jury.
Until next week!
Dan (aka Tom)
[Cue "plot thickens" music.] Traitor-Trump sinks further and further into dementia with each passing day. If this is a (fair & balanced) call for an intervention, so be it.
[x TMW]
Fake Calls
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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