Along with today's 'toon, Tom/Dan wrote:
I’ve mentioned to the fact that I’m going through a difficult moment of transition in my life, and some weeks are more complicated than others. Getting my brain into writing mode can feel like swimming through molasses. I’m actually happy with this cartoon, but it took about twice as long to write as it should have. One note about the look of it — in previous installments of the “thing that ate America’s brain,” I used a different lettering font, meant to evoke the old EC horror comics of the 1950s. I had to go with my usual font for this one because the other one takes up too much space, and I couldn’t fit in everything I wanted to, otherwise. I don’t know how many people even noticed that little touch, but I’ll probably return to it the next time I revisit this recurrent riff.
Until next week,
Dan/Tom
And on that melancholy note, Tom/Dan soldiers on. In the meantime, another 'toon by a Pulitzer Prize winner — Mike Peters of the Dayton Fishwrap — appealed to this Resistance-blogger: as the 'Toon O'The Week:
If this is in the (fair & balanced) tradition of Thomas Nast, so be it.
[x TMW]
The Thing That Ate America's Brain
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 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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