True to his word, Dan/Tom took over for the past week for a travel-visit with his son. And — also true to his word — his e-mail contained an "evergreen" (rerun in 'toonist talk) from 2008 and the topic of this old 'toon was as viable in 2019 as it had been in 2008. And the most apt response is "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" (The more things change the more they stay the same) were the words of Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in 1849 in response to the Revolution of 1848 in France.
Dan/Tom also wrote:
Hey all,
This is a slightly-edited version of a cartoon that first ran in 2008, but seems somewhat relevant to the current moment. I took last week off, and took a small road trip with my son. I’m still catching up on everything I missed — apparently Trump is our god emperor now? And apparently that wasn’t even the strangest thing that happened. It was lovely to have a few days in which I did not have to immerse myself in the 24/7 craziness, but since this week’s commentary is necessarily light as a result,
Next week, back to work....
Dan/Tom
And, unfortunately, today is the beginning of the final week of August 2019 and the craziness continues unabated. If this is a (fair & balanced) report from the mental health institution we call the USA, so be it.
[x TMW]
With Us Or Against Us
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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