In his e-mail delivery of today's 'toon, Tom/Dan also wrote
Well.
The world has turned upside down, infection is spreading exponentially, and Trump is focused like a laser on making sure that people praise his non-existent leadership. I have never despised a human being as much as I despise our so-called president as I watch him spew nonsense in those daily virus briefings (which those around him, or at least Fauci, try delicately to counter without enraging the mad king).
I haven’t had such a hard time writing a cartoon since the immediate post-9/11 era. There are moments when it’s hard to find the humor in anything.
I think the Stupidverse has now officially been replaced by the Coronaverse.
One thing I learned in the course of writing and drawing this cartoon is that Sparky apparently needs to shave his beak! Who knew?
Welcome to new subscribers on the list, and much gratitude to long-termers. I’ve read several articles this week about how the coronavirus is certain to kill off the altweeklies, which are still a substantial part of my income stream, and I’m not optimistic about my other sources of revenue right now either. There are obviously larger problems in the world, but I am not overstating things to say that direct reader support is the only thing that’s going to keep this cartoon alive into 2021.
Right now, all any of us can do is take things a week at a time.
Stay safe, everyone, and stay distant. Thank your mail carrier and grocery workers, and tip your delivery people as well as you can. And wash your hands.
Dan/Tom
And that ended a melancholy comment on the most difficult time this blogger has ever experienced. It seems that the enduring sentiment is contained in the melancholy injunction — "Wash your hands." If that is the best (fair & balanced) daily slogan, so be it.
[x TMW]
Life In The "CORONAVERSE"
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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