Tom Tomorrow/Dan Perkins included these comments with today's 'toon:
A follow-up cartoon on the Parkland shooting. This one might have a different impact, due to the outspoken high school survivors themselves. It’s hard to say — I’ve been disappointed by moments of promise before. But the NRA is bleeding corporate sponsors, and that’s a start. They’re not monolithic, but have succeeded in presenting themselves at such; maybe this is the first step toward rewriting that narrative.
Panel #3 was the most complicated to write — I needed to signal that I understood that the FBI may, in fact, have ignored advance warnings, while getting to the point that I wanted to make: it’s absurd to blame this on the Russia investigation, as our extremely smart president has tried to do. They may well have screwed up, but it’s not because the entire organization was too busy dreaming up ways to bring down Trump.
[snip snip — Instagram commercial]
I’ve had Kurt Vonnegut on the brain this week, specifically this old quote from God Bless You Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine (1965): “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies — “God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
And so it goes.
Dan/Tom
And it does go — on and on with unending gun massacres. The NRA owns Congress and too many state legislatures along with a nearly omnipotent propaganda-machine. If it's not Russians, it's gun-worshippers — all bent upon the destruction of democracy. We don't have a swamp — we're going down for the third time in an ocean of automatic weapons. If this is a (fair & balanced) portrayal of a tidal-wave of disaster, so be it.
[x TMW]
Post-Traumatic Discourse
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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