In the e-mail (that arrived 5-6 hours later than its usual arrival), Tom/Dan wrote:
Hey all,
Hectic week and running late, so sparse extra verbiage this week. Sincere thanks to those of you who spotted last week's typos -- never feel apologetic for letting me know about those, it's a lifesaver!
Until next week….
Dan/Tom
With those short'n sweet introductory remarks, Dan/Tom failed to mention that the lead character in today's 'toon — The LK (Lyin' King) in the Oval Office is a non-juvenile version of Conservative Jones, a child dressed in the style of an English detective like Sherlock Holmes. The unsolved crime that confronts the faux detective is a case ripped from today's tawdry headlines: "Hideous Men: Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life" in an exposé by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in New York magazine.(June 21, 2019). The would-be Sherlock Holmes engages in colloquy with a would-be John H. Watson, known as "Dr Watson" in the mystery series by Arthur Conan Doyle. However, in this telling in "This Modern World," the would-be Watson has no name and is referred to only as "that white-haired guy." If this is a (fair & balanced) episode from the murkiest depths our national life, so be it.
[x TMW]
The Detective-In-Chief
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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