The e-mail bearing today's TMW 'toon also contained the following message from the 'toonist (Tom Tomorrow/Dan Perkins):
Hey all,
A couple of quick notes about this one. The line about more people dying due to drinking excessively was actually something that a troll (or a bot) showed up in my timeline with, obviously proving the sheer hypocrisy of anyone who thinks guns might be a problem. (A quick look at his/its feed showed that this was an issue they were pushing aggressively — it was pretty much a single-issue Twitter feed, devoted to this one extremely good-faith argument.) And as for that bit at the end about feral hogs, if you're on twitter you're already sick of the joke, but if you are a sane person who doesn't live on twitter all day, here's the backstory.
There's finally some new stuff in the store. Sparky & Blinky stickers are back by popular demand, and there's a new shirt that I designed for anyone who loves New York City, rats and all. And we've got a special enamel Sparky pin in production which will be showing up in the next week or two.
I do not have a firm opinion on the Epstein thing, except to say, wow how very convenient for some of the richest and most powerful people on earth.
Until next time,
Dan/Tom
And those comments sum up a lousy week for this US citizen. Just when you think, "It can't get any worse," the week that follows is predictably worse. If this is a (fair & balanced) real-life reenactment of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit," so be it.
[x TMW]
Gun Talk
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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