Along with today's 'toon, Tom/Dan wrote:
Kind of a goofy riff, based on Trump’s addled, off-the-cuff remark that we need a “space force.” I wanted to work in something about Trump’s lack of acknowledgement regarding the assassination attempt of the former Russian spy on British soil, but this thing was already too verbose as it was. There’s just too much happening! It’s like that "Doctor Who" episode where time breaks down and all of history occurs simultaneously.
This was a fun one to work on, of course. There are a few tiny easter eggs buried in it, like the overhead screens on the bridge all showing Trump’s electoral map. And while I still provide a blackline version of the cartoon for papers that don’t run color, I was noticing this week how many small jokes were entirely based on color selection. Trump’s skin, the colors of the Russian flag on the Klingon ship, the Enterprise being gold-plated, things like that. Even the bald spots that I draw into Trump’s hairweave stand out much better in color than in black and white.
Until next week,
Dan/Tom
Actually, if you look at Panel 4 of today's 'toon, Captain Trump, Kirk, or "Jerk" is shown from the rear and reveals the horrendous gap (not "bald spots") in his hairweave that was revealed on TV during a strong wind a few weeks ago. If this is a (fair & balanced) portrayal of our national malaise as a sick joke, so be it.
[x TMW]
Space Captain Trump
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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