In the email that delivered today's TMW 'toon, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) also wrote:
This 'toon was inspired by the 17 year old Kenosha shooter, but also by the general trend of self appointed militia types who are starting to show up at protests, and how they are received by the cops. Police in Kenosha told a group of armed white guys that they “appreciate them” and offered them bottled water. Eventually I’m just going to end up drawing myself each week screaming WE ARE SLIDING INTO FASCISM, but for this week, a slightly more understated take.
I wanted to make it clear that my generic gun nut was not meant to specifically represent the 17 year old kid, which is the purpose of the dialogue in the second panel.
I watched three of four nights of the RNC but in the end I just didn’t want to write about it this week. Though I suppose I could have drawn myself screaming WE ARE SLIDING INTO FASCISM.
The thing I didn’t see coming was that when it happened here, it would all be so very dumb. The next couple of months are really going to be nerve wracking. If we don’t get Trump out of power now, we may never have another chance to turn this thing around.
On that cheery note, be safe and be well!
Dan/Tom
On this dreary note, if we have a (fair & balanced) alarm about a Fascist government (Hitler-Mussolini-Franco-*ILK (*Impeached But Not Removed Lyin' King) in our future, so be it.
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"The Liar Tweets Tonight" (Parody of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")
By Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi
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Here To Help!
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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