Dan Perkins (born 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 . 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, an excellent and incisive commentary on US political life.

Books

There are six 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

All of these are published by St. Martin's . The most current, The Great Big Book of Tomorrow, was released in the Spring of 2003.

Contempories

Similar cartoonist to Perkins include:

Ted Rall Joe Sacco "Rueben Bolling"

External link

• This Modern World, Tom Tomorrow's weblog