This Modern World, the long-running, award-winning satirical comic that Dan Perkins publishes under the pen name Tom Tomorrow, came to life in Iowa City during the mid-’80s. Perkins first began sketching the strip while working at a downtown copy shop, though his passion for cartooning developed much earlier when his parents first moved to Iowa […]
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Tom Tomorrow wins Berryman Award for This Modern World comic strip
On Friday morning, the National Press Foundation announced Dan Perkins is this year’s winner of the Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons. The name Dan Perkins may not instantly ring a bell, but Little Village readers definitely know his work. For almost 40 years, Perkins has been writing and drawing This Modern World using his pen […]
