Monday, July 02, 2018

Today, A Precedent-Shattering Word Appears For The First Time In "This Modern World"

Today, a colloquy between Sparky the Wonder Penguin (wearing his trademark Inuit-style goggles to ward off -snow- bull$hit blindness) and Chuckles the Sensible Woodchuck (wearing his trademark bow-tie marking him as conciliatory chap) produces a first in "This Modern World" 'toons

Hey all,

Only one quick note about this one: first use of the f-bomb in a TMW cartoon ever.

Until next time,

Tom/Dan

The precedent-shattering word is found in the next-to-last panel of this week's 'toon. 'Tis proof that these are trying times, If this is a (fair & balanced) example of the treason committed by the current occupant of the Oval Office and his minions being far worse than a commonplace expletive that begins with an "F" and rhymes with "Duck," so be it.

[x TMW]
Civility
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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