In the e-mail that accompanied today's 'toon, Dan/Tom wrote:
Hey All,
Since it's hard to distinguish between reality and satire these days, I should note that Giuliani really did say that Trump could shoot Comey if he wanted. It was hyperbole in the service of making his point that Trump is effectively above the law — well, I hope it was hyperbole — but it was a real thing he said.
Until next time,
Dan/Tom
The e-mail also included a service note that family business would make it likely that next week's cartoon will be a rerun of some sort.
A rerun of a Tom Tomorrow 'toon is worth a week's worth of talking heads babbling about the latest idiotic tweets from the current occupant of the Oval Office. In last night's broadcast of the 2018 Tony Awards, Robert Niro brought down the house with a rousing cry for the Resistance:
"I'm gonna say one thing: (expletive) Trump!" he exclaimed. "It's no longer 'down with Trump,' it's '(expletive) Trump!' "
If that is a (fair & balanced) circumlocution of a 4-letter vulgarity that starts with "F" and rhymes with "duck," so be it.
[x TMW]
Constitution Talk With Your Host, Rudy Giulani
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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