Sorry, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) — Since 2017, The National/International Affairs Of The United States Have Been In A Continuous Spin Cycle Until...??

Along with today's 'toon in his e-mail, Tom/Dan also wrote:

Hey all..., posting this from a hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, where I'm taking part in the Columbus Crossroads Comics festival ... which meant that I had to finish a cartoon early during one of the most hectic, full-of-breaking-news weeks any of us have seen in awhile. Hopefully this one still captures something about the moment. Originally it was called 'THE TRUMP SCANDAL CYCLE', but I was sitting at JFK (waiting out a three hour flight delay) on the way here, and the current title occurred to me and was so obvious I could have literally slapped myself on the forehead. So I pulled out my laptop and made the necessary edit. Working from the road is a pain, but at least it's possible. I'll have more next week!

Dan/Tom

In his 'toon, Tom/Dan included a subtitle for today's 'toon — "Results may vary." That is putting our reality in uncertain terms when there is only one certainty: as long as the LK (Lyin' King) remians in the White House, we will be subjected to a continuous $hitshow. The French philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, wrote "Huis Clos" ("No Exit") which is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity. Sartre also wrote "L'enfer, c'est les autres" ("Hell is other people") without ever having met or known The LK (Lyin' King) in Sartre's lifetime (1905-1980). If this is a (fair & balanced) description of our hellish national life, so be it.

[x TMW]
The tRump Spin Cycle
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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