Tom/Dan wrote in the e-mail that brought today's TMW 'toon:
I finished this one way, way back on Friday, when we were all still focused on the possibility of a nuclear war, and then revised the final panel yesterday, in response to the events in Charlottesville. It’s a challenge to keep up with the sheer onslaught of awfulness these days. I’d say that next week’s cartoon is probably going to be about the neo-Nazis and their enabler-in-chief, but who knows what new and even more terrible thing we’ll actually be talking about by then.
Until next week!
Dan (aka Tom)
Today's 'toon begins with the stock pair of True Believers (in Traitor-Trump). In the third panel (and thereafter), Sparky the Wonder Penguin (wearing his trademark Inuit-style bull$hit-blindness goggles) enters into a 3-party colloquy. Sparky is sardonic in the face meat-headed obtuseness. If this is a (fair & balanced) critique of stupidity "on all sides" of the Traitor's camp, so be it.
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Threat Assessment
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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