Tom Tomorrow
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Dan Perkins (born April 5, 1961 in Wichita, Kansas), better known by the pen name Tom Tomorrow, is an editorial cartoonist. His award-winning weekly cartoon, This Modern World, a comic strip that comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the USA and the online magazines Salon.com and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, he writes a daily political weblog, also entitled This Modern World.
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This Modern World
While other editorial cartoons often focus their ridicule at the top, making fun of presidents or other leadership figures, This Modern World tends to focus on the average person and the mentalities of those who support leaders and policies, as well as the popular media.
To add irony, it often uses 50s-style ad caricatures to imply parallels between the Cold War 50s and current Reagan/Bush political environment.
Books
There are seven cartoon anthologies currently in print:
- Greetings From This Modern World
- Tune in Tomorrow
- The Wrath of Sparky
- Penguin Soup for the Soul
- When Penguins Attack
- The Great Big Book of Tomorrow (Spring 2003)
- Hell in a Handbasket (March 2006)
The anthologies were published St. Martin's Press until Hell in a Handbasket, when Perkins switched to Tarcher.
Contemporaries
Thematically sympathetic cartoonists to Perkins include: