Something was off yesterday — the e-mail containing today's TMW 'toon was 3 hours later than usual. And things got even stranger when a second e-mail arrived less than an hour later. Tom/Dan had made an egregious error in the 7th panel that attacks the fiscal policies of the current administration in stating that the tax cuts and other budgetary nonsense would result in a National Debt increase to $1.9 -billion- trillion. The revised 'toon was sparked by discerning readers of This Modern World and Tom/Dan quickly redrew the panel and sent out the revision in less than an hour. However, there was a critical difference in the two e-mail versions. Tom/Dan supplied a single sentence explaining the correction, but did not include his original accompanying message. This frustrated blogger deleted the earlier e-mail containing the erroneous 7th panel. And, to further the compounding errors, the blogger deleted the contents of the Trash folder when the second e-mail arrived without careful scrutiny of the contents. Alas, once a deleted e-mail is deleted from the Trash folder, that e-mail is vaporized. To reprise the original accompanying e-mail, Tom/Dan explained the premise of the 'toon and the debt owed to Highlights for Children which carried the inspiring 'toon, "Goofus and Gallant" which offered graphic lessons in civility and etiquette to young readers. The message also contained personal news that Dan/Tom would be on vacation with his son and that would likely mean reruns of earlier 'toons. If this is (fair & balanced) incoherent e-mail management, so be it.
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Goofball And Galahad (Updated)
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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