In addition to today's 'toon, Tom/Dan wrote
This one was mainly a response to the “post-birth abortion” talking point that Republicans have come up with lately, this idea that women and doctors are conspiring to execute newborns that Trump has been pushing. Satire is getting harder and harder in this strange moment in which we are innundated by so many transparent lies, which Trump supporters either believe or are willing to pretend to believe in order to own the libs. Have I mentioned before how exhausting all of this is? It’s exhausting!
I’m thinking about making signed prints available again, since I just bought a spiffy new printer. (“Spiffy” is a word that we don’t use often enough, and also a word that looks made up if you stare at it too long.) They’ll be on 8.5 x 11 matte paper, printed with (extremely expensive) archival inks. I want to give this whole thing a test run this week and make sure the printer is working, not to mention the Paypal button, so I’m going to offer them to the first 10 of you to click here [print test run is sold out already] and order. If everything goes smoothly, I’ll make more available next week!
I’m also offering them to subscribers for $30 each, including postage; the public price will probably be $40. For now, the only cartoons available are the ones you can find in my Nib archive here. (I apologize if you have a favorite from 20 years ago that you really, really want, but I need to keep this manageable for the moment. We’ll see how this little experiment goes, and then I’ll tweak things from there.) (Also, apologies if you don’t like Paypal, I’m not crazy about them either, but it’s the only payment system I can manage for now.) I’m not sure what the user experience will be with this button — after the ten prints I’ve allocated are sold it *should* just bump you back to my main page, but we’ll see if that actually works!
Also, this is a bare-bones interface for now; I’ll clean it up a bit before it goes beyond this list!
Until next week …
Dan/Tom
True to his word, Tom/Dan proclaims that ",...Satire is getting harder and harder..." in these dismal times. If this is (fair & balanced) truth, so be it.
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[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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