In the e-mail that brought today's TMW, Tom/Dan wrote:
Hey all,
Well it has been a hectic couple of weeks. Last weekend I was in Columbus for the Comics Crossroads Festival, taking part in a special presentation about The Nib, and my friend Matt Bors’ incredible work at keeping it alive as successive tech billionaires decide the relative pocket change necessary to fund one of the most important comics projects to come along in a decade just isn't worth it. As with any conference at which friends and colleagues gather from distant points, there were late nights and conversation, and I’ve been sort of recovering all week. And now it’s time for New York Comic Con! I’m sending this out a bit early (though as usual, please don't share until it goes live on Daily Kos on Monday morning), to give a head’s up to anyone attending NYCC: I’ll be signing the last book at the IDW booth on Saturday (the next one, which will actually have cartoons about the Trump era, is due out in Spring 2020). And my friend Chase Masterson, who is possibly best known for her role on "Star Trek DS9," asked me to take part in her panel on preventing bullying, which will be Sunday at 4 PM. I’m going to bring some stickers and will hand them out (while they last) to anyone who identifies themselves as a Sparky’s List subscriber. Code phrase: The Penguin is Watching
Until next week,
Dan/Tom
The crime/criminal analogies have begun to proliferate in the media. The Lyin' King operated like a mobster in NYC, Atlantic City, and anywhere else that The LK erected a "tRump Tower" sign on an empty downtown building. Then he proceeded to defraud, steal, and worse from anyone who did business with him or, worse, worked for him. If this is (fair & balanced) crime & non-punishment, 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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