Along with today's 'toon, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) wrote:
Hey all,
These “stupidverse” cartoons are kind of a way to grapple with the firehose of insanity that we’re all blasted with every week. Every. Single. Week. And of course, even with this wide-ranging, scattershot approach, there are still dozens of things that should be in there, but aren't. Case in point here is probably the New Zealand massacre and the ways in which hatred proliferates online, but that's going to have to be a topic for a different week.
I gave up the old Year in Review cartoons when Trump was elected, because these days to summarize the year, I’d basically have to do one every week; maybe these are sort of what has replaced them.
That final panel is kind of an obvious joke, but what can I say, I've been wanting to do it for awhile. That thing where he hugs flags is just SO weird....
Dan/Tom
The most discouraging element in today's 'toon is the subtitle: "An Endlessly Ongoing Series." It is a horrible nightmare in a loop, seemingly running forever. If this is a (fair & balanced) revelation of our national Zeitgeist, so be it.
[x TMW]
Return To The Stupidverse
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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