Tom/Dan wrote the following in this e-mail bearing today's 'toon:
Right wing media went nuts over a passing reference to a “secret society” between two FBI agents in an illicit affair. It’s pretty clearly some joke between the two of them, but that didn’t stop Hannity, et al from declaring it worse than Watergate, and I started thinking about how far back this immense conspiracy must stretch. That’s Hoover and his lifelong friend Clyde Tolson in the first panel — they may or may not have been actually involved romantically, but they vacationed together, even going on double vacations with Dick and Pat Nixon, and Washington society treated them as a couple. When Edgar died, Clyde was given the flag from his coffin — generally a gesture reserved for spouses. (My soon-to-be former wife is writing a major biography on Hoover and is pretty much the world’s leading authority on the topic at the moment, so I have a lot of background on this one.)
Because of the texts, I wanted to portray a male/female FBI team. The first thing that occurred to me was a Mulder/Scully riff, but I decided that didn’t really make any sense, conceptually — Mulder and Scully were the ones trying to uncover the conspiracies, not the ones plotting them. So I went generic, but the woman’s outfit is meant to evoke Scully’s look.
Trump’s dialogue in the fourth panel is a reference to a comment from Sarah Sanders, to the effect that Trump can’t be a racist, because he was on tv so long and if he were a racist, NBC would have fired him.
Until next week…
Dan/Tom
The mess in DC that oozes from the pores of the current occupant of the Oval Office is a world-class source of pollution. A NJ landfill would fit the scumbag to perfection. If this is (fair & balanced) weltschmerz, so be it.
[x TMW]
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[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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