In the email that brought today's "This Modern World" 'toon, Tom Tomorrow/Dan Perkins also wrote:
This was inspired by a random recollection of how terrible the summer of 2014 seemed at the time. Ebola was rampaging in West Africa, the protests in Ferguson were underway, and Robin Williams had just taken his own life. It felt like a moment of intense anxiety, though these days we would basically call it “Tuesday.”
It was a complicated week here in Tomorrowland. I very nearly signed a lease on a new apartment, until my current landlord offered a rent reduction if I'd stay. And then the potential new landlord tried to lure me back with a drop in *his* rent. (I ultimately decided to stay in place, for now.) I've scoffed at the "New York is dying" pieces as much as anyone, but this is... not New York as I understand it. I do wonder what the next version of this city is going to be like, in six months or a year. In any case, I'm sticking it out for the time being.
Be safe, be well.
Dan/Tom
Actually, this is another chapter for the traditional Chinese -blessing- curse that is an ironic view of difficult times. It is safe to say that 2020 has been difficult and the chattering heads on TV news shows seem to agree that we are now living in the "New Normal." And on that ghastly note, there is a (fair & balanced) instinct to "soldier on."
[x YouTube]
"The Liar Tweets Tonight" (Parody of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")
By Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi
[x TMW]
The Shape Of Things To Come
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.]
Copyright © 2020 This Modern World
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License..
Copyright © 2020 Sapper's (Fair & Balanced) Rants & Raves
