DAN PERKINS, AKA TOM TOMORROW, ANNOUNCED 2013 HERBLOCK PRIZE WINNER
DAN PERKINS, AKA TOM TOMORROW, ANNOUNCED 2013 HERBLOCK PRIZE WINNER
February 26, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC, February 25, 2013 – 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.
http://www.herbblockfoundation.org/press-release/966
?1361999016
http://thismodernworld.com/archives/7734