Within the e-mail that brought today's TMW 'toon, Dan/Tom wrote:
Hey all,
It is really difficult these days to come with an absurd satirical premise that isn't quickly outdone by reality itself, but I'm pretty happy with this one.
Sending this out a bit early, but please remember not to share in public until it goes live on Daily Kos on Monday morning!
Thanks all,
Dan/Tom
This Modern World's resident mad scientist, Dr. Wilbur von Philbert, in his white lab coat, has created an airborne virus in his underground lab that transforms members of the. party of the HA (Horse's A$$) in the Oval Office (Hint:the party name begins with R.) into zombies. And, in a common iteration of this horror-culture meme, Tom/Dan uses the common interpretation of zombies who eat the brains of their human victims. So, the political party that slavishly supports the HA have become zombies who rip infants from the arms of their mothers and fathers, who place children separated from their parents in cages and worse. In the version portrayed in today's 'toon, the zombies in the Oval Office and the US Congress are shown as the living dead. If this is a (fair & balanced) explanation of the inhuman behavior of the HA and his minions, so be it.
[x TMW]
The Brain-Eating Zombie Party
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 U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in 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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