In greeting the New Year, the 'toon-accompanying message from Tom/Dan was short & smei-sweet:
And we're back! Happy new year everyone, and buckle in -- 2019's gonna be an exciting ride, I think.
Dan/Tom
And that was that. It would seem that today's 'toon was influenced by the recent (2018) Sherlock Holmes homage —"Holmes & Watson" — with Will Ferrell as Sherlock Holmes and John C. Reilly as John Watson, MD. Holmes was notable for his Deerstalker hat and his Calabash pipe which are replicated in today's 'toon. The part of Dr. John Watson is portrayed by the current VPOTUS — an unctuous toady in real life. If this is a (fair & balanced) example of life imitating art, so be it.
[x TMW]
The Game's Afoot
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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