Tom's/Dan's message accompanying today's TMW 'toon was short'n sweet:
I'm queueing this up in advance, but if all goes well, I'll be in Italy when you're reading it. Regular additional commentary will return in a few weeks.
Dan (aka Tom)
As the day went after the 'toon arrived in the In Box, this blogger had an A-Ha moment: Thelma and Louise rode over the edge of the Grand Canyon in a convertible and that moment was a metaphor for the USA in early October 2017. Virtually, Thelma is the AssHat-in-Chief and Louise is one of his minions and the convertible is the United States of America. And, even though we are not Thelma and Louise, it feels as if we are backseat passengers in that convertible. If this is a (fair & balanced) metaphor for our national life, so be it.
PS: You can read a synopsis of "Thelma & Louise" (film) here.
[x TMW]
Another Cliff-Parable
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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