When this blogger discovered the comic section of the Denver fishwraps (The Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post) more than 70 years ago, and he plowed through "Li'l Abner," "Pogo," "Little Orphan Annie," "Terry and the Pirates," "Dagwood," "Steve Canyon," and on and on. Now, this blogger subscribes to "This Modern World" and this blog has its own funny paper (though the tone and images are horrifying of late and blogger pushes on. And, on that melancholy note, Tom Tomorrow/Dan Perkins wrote yesterday:
Hey all —
Short note this week, I'm literally on my way out the door to see my kid up in New Haven as soon as I get this one posted. I should note, for those of you who don't spend 100 hours a day on Twitter, that this is based on an actual product, a commercial for which was making the rounds last week. Google "Trumpy Bear" with a Y — I changed the spelling for my take on it. The whole ad defies parody, but the idea of a horrific Trump-faced teddy bear stuck in my head.
Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving; more from me next week (as always) ....
Dan/Tom
So, boys and girls (There was a radio show in Denver where a performer read and animated the most popular comic strips and the listeners were addressed as children.) — the world goes on and on. If this is a (fair & balanced) antidote to our daily miasma, so be it.
[x TMW]
Trumpie Bear
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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