Welcome To The World Of Magical Thinking & Fantastical Dreams

In his e-mail yesterday, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) supplied today's 'toon and his accompanying message:

Well here we are again!

Given that it’s really the one thing required of me in this current life, it’s extraordinary how long it takes me to finish a cartoon these days. But I think a lot of people are operating at less than full efficiency. Everybody’s doing the best they can.

The germ of the idea for this one was to somehow portray the world as Trump wishes it were/pretends it is. Once it started coming together as a dream sequence, I decided to have some fun with the art. The floating eyeballs are a recurrent motif I use to indicate either dream sequences or surreal reality-collapsing scenarios, though it’s been a little awhile since I’ve done either. They don't really have any deeper symbolism beyond that.

Until next week…,

Dan/Tom

Today's 'toon about dreams makes this blogger wonder what Signmund Freud would think about The *ILK (*Impeached But Not Removed) Lyin' King. If this is (fair & balanced) psychiatric supposition, so be it.

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[x YouTube]
"The Liar Tweets Tonight" (Parody of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")
By Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi

This genius parody has become this blogger's current earworm and Resistance Anthem. So, if this is a (fair & balanced) first step toward doing the right thing, so be it.

[x TMW]
Trump's Fantastical Dream
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 US, as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in the 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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