Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) is the creator of the political cartoon, This Modern World, which started out in the world of alternative weeklies in the ‘90s, and has now outlived most of them. He is a recipient of various awards, including the RFK Journalism Award (on two occasions) and the Herblock Prize, and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2015. He has published a dozen books, including a thousand page career retrospective which raised $310,000 in funding through Kickstarter, and once collaborated with the band Pearl Jam to create the artwork for their album Backspacer. He lives in New York City.