Thursday, February 28, 2013

Tom Tomorrow, Herblock Award winner

Snapshot of This Modern World cartoon strip Daily Kos boasts the best political cartoonists in the biz, bar none. Objectively so!
Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.

Perkins is the creator of the weekly political cartoon, This Modern World, which appears in approximately 80 papers, mostly altweeklies. He is the editor of the comics section he created in April 2011 on Daily Kos. His cartoons have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, U.S. News & World Report and The Economist. He lives outside of New Haven, Connecticut with his wife and their son.

The prize is awarded annually by The Herb Block Foundation for 'distinguished examples of editorial cartooning that exemplify the courageous independent standard set by Herblock.' The winner receives a $15,000 after-tax cash prize and a sterling silver Tiffany trophy. Perkins will receive the prize April 25th in a ceremony held at the Library of Congress.

Dan/Tom is a pioneer of the alt-political cartooning. This honor has been long overdue.

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