Monday, January 22, 2018

The Unreality Show That Is Our National Life Seems To Have No Final Episode In Sight

The singular bright spot in the drear days of January 2018 came in the e-mail message from Tom/Dan that accompanied today's 'toon:


Hey all,

After all the recent upheaval in my life, this felt like the week that I really started to re-engage with the news, really started to get my head back in the game. It also felt like the week that I really started to settle into this strange new life as a single man in New York City, and even to embrace it. I have so many friends here, and am just beginning to wake to the possibilities of my life now. To quote a line from a lesser U2 song, “hit an iceberg in my life/but I’m still afloat.” It’s a moment of transition, to be sure, but as it turns out, it’s not all bleak. And that’s a pretty good feeling.

Dan/Tom

Good news from our 'toonist — there is light at the end of a tunnel. If only.... If this is a (fair & balanced) hope for an end to our lengthening national nightmare, so be it.

[x TMW]
The Trump News Cycle
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)


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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