In the midst of a difficult family siuation (moving an elderly parent into an assisted-living facility), Tom/Dan managed to write a message to accompany today's 'toon:
Hey all —
The additional commentary is likely to be short for the next couple of weeks, as I deal with the ongoing family situation. Things are hectic but under control, and going as well as can be expected. My lengthy rambling notes will resume soon! In the meantime, another week and (somehow) another new cartoon....
Dan/Tom
It is nigh on to impossible to imagine creating art in the midst of a hectic life and a lot of that is unknown to an unaware viewer of the art itself. Kudos to Dan Perkins (Tom TomorrowO for devotion to his art. If this is a (fair & balanced) example of artistic commitment, so be it.
[x TMW]
The Great Bank Robbery
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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