In the email that delivered today's TMW 'toon, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) shared the following thoughts:
Once again, here we are trapped in the event horizon of the black hole in Donald Trump’s brain, where time has no meaning and the election either ended two weeks ago or will literally last for all eternity. I don’t *think* he can get away with what is undeniably at this point an attempted coup, but it’s worth remembering that he sort of bumbled his way into power four years ago — even he didn’t believe he was actually going to win. If you’re feeling anxious, good — stay that way until January 20. The screenwriters of this terrible show we are all trapped in undoubtedly have a few more plot twists in store.
To understand the final panel, you have to know one slightly obscure historical fact: during the attempted coup against Gorbachev in 1991, Soviet state TV shut down all news and played "Swan Lake" on a repeating loop. I fully expect this one to fly over most people’s heads, but I’ve never let that stop me before.
Have a good, but safe, Thanksgiving.
Dan/Tom
The final panel reference to "Swan Lake" was puzzling, but made perfect sense with the 'toonist's explication. The inclusion of the 'toonist's remarks about each 'toon is a "value-added" feature to the Monday Funnies in this blog that is found no where else. If this is (fair & balanced) self-congratulation, so be it.
And, as long as the post-election nightmare continues...
[x YouTube]
"The Liar Tweets Tonight" (Parody of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")
By Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi
[x TMW]
The Election That Wouldn't Die
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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