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 […]
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Iowans across the state will rally on Saturday as No Kings Day returns
On Saturday, hundreds of cities across the country will see people take to the streets for a No Kings Day of Peaceful Action to protest President Trump’s policies. According to […]
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As Trump holds a military parade on Saturday, Iowans in more than 30 cities will rally for No Kings Day
On Saturday, tanks will roll through the streets of Washington D.C. as the Army stages a parade. Ostensibly, the parade is to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Army’s creation […]
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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 […]
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From Judy! to Tom Tomorrow, Iowa City’s ‘revolutionary’ zine scene flourished out of Zephyr Copies
“Sometime during the early 1980s,” intermedia artist Lloyd Dunn recalled, “a number of people in many different places suddenly understood that they could afford to become publishers, as photocopy shops […]
