The e-mail bearing today's 'toon contained a pithy prefatory statement:
This week's TMW!
with a silent "Over & Out." It would seem that Tom/Dan — like many people of this blogger's acquaintance — is just damn sick and tired of the never-ending spew of crap associated with the Moron-in-Chief. Call it serious dose of pathological spiritual poisoning. Sparky The Wonder Penguin offers his view of 2017 with two words: "2017 sucked." If that is a (fair & balanced) illustration of weltschmerz, so be it.
[x TMW]
2017 — An Early Peek At The Year That Seems Like A Decade
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.]
Copyright © 2017 This Modern World/Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
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