Tom/Dan wrote in the e-mail accompanying this week's 'toon:
This is a new take on a theme I've used a couple of times before (sparingly, over the course of 15 years or so) — my version of X-Ray Spex, which I used to call “Red State Spex" (they showed you the world as conservatives saw it). But it occurred to me that the red state/blue state shorthand doesn’t quite capture our particular political moment. So I went with MAGA-VISION SPEX, which will show you the truth about climate change and those insidious Dreamers, as seen by Trump's hardcore base.
I’m going to be queueing up the next few weeks worth of Sparky's List mailings in advance, so there may or may not be any additional commentary in the next few emails, depending on whether I have time to write anything up while traveling [in Italy] — and depending on my internet access, which in my experience can be hit-or-miss in the sorts of hotels I’ll be staying in. You’ll still get the cartoons, I’m just not sure about the bonus verbiage!
Until next time,
Dan (aka Tom)
A long-gone sports columnist in the Amarillo, TX Fishwrap had a shtick of awarding "Kudos" to the things he liked and "Brickbats" to bad things (in his opinion). So — original as ever — this blogger awards a Kudo to today's "This Modern World" for witty and sardonic snark about the Mainstream Media and Brickbat for the closing line that insinuated that the fictional Maga-Spex were available for sale in the Traitors' Web site. This gullible blogger went to the site and searched for any mention of Maga-Spex: Nada. However, that might have been a joke within a joke because most of garbage for sale there had no value whatever. The fools who buy Trump Steaks or Trump Water would buy Maga-Spex without a thought. If this is (fair & balanced) Mega-Naïveté, so be it.
[x TMW]
Maga-Vision!
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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