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 and Working for Change.

He has 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.

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.

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