Tom Tomorrow's header for today's 'toon dripped with irony at the end of the most disagreeable month, Save November 3-24, 2020 and the 'toonist had no cheerful message at the end of November, either:
I took some time off last week, and had to work through the weekend to get a cartoon written to make up for it, which is not my favorite way to work. Literally just finished this one up a few minutes ago. I hope you all had a good (and appropriately safe) holiday. Thank you to any new subscribers on the list; I usually write more than this, and will likely do so again next week, but right now my brain is fried.
Until then,
Dan/Tom
On that brief note, things were chill and drear for the 'toonist and for this blogger. The COVID-19 Pandemic is taking more lives than ever and today's "This Modern World" unfunny paper has Action McNews' blow-dried co-anchors, Wanda and Biff, delivering a phony message that "everything is fine and normal with no worries." If that is (fair & balanced) lunacy, so be it. And, as long as the post-election nightmare continues...
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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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Everything Is Fine And Normal!
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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