Editing This Modern World (section)

== Publication history ==
Perkins was first published in the Spring 1986 issue of ''[[Processed World (magazine)|Processed World]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tomorrow |first=Tom |title=This Modern World |url=https://archive.org/details/processedworld16proc/page/13/mode/1up |journal=Processed World |location=San Francisco, CA |publication-date=Spring 1986 |issue=16 |pages=13–17 |issn=0735-9381}}</ref> He adopted the subject matter of the consumer culture and the drudgery of work, a theme shared by the magazine, and entitled his comic strip ''This Modern World''. In 1990, the strip began to be run in the ''[[SF Weekly]]'', before being picked up in the fall of 1991 by the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]''. As his audience expanded, Perkins shifted the focus of the strip to politics. Perkins added papers throughout the 1990s, distributing his comic via self-syndication, a practice he has continued throughout his career.<ref name="TNK_interview">{{cite web|last1=Rhodes|first1=Steve|title=Tomorrow Never Knows | url = http://www.thismodernworld.com/pages/int1/int_bMFprofile.htm | publisher=Mediafile | accessdate=4 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/10/film-roman-working-on-animated-series-based-on-this-modern-world-1201833138/ |title=Animated Series Based On Acclaimed Underground Comic Strip 'This Modern World' In Works |last=Lincoln |first=Ross A. |date=2016-10-08 |website=Deadline|access-date=2017-12-30}}</ref>

In 2009, [[Village Voice Media]], publishers of 16 [[Alternative weekly|alternative weeklies]], suspended all syndicated cartoons across their entire chain. Perkins thereby lost twelve client papers in cities, including [[Los Angeles]], [[Minneapolis]], New York, and [[Seattle]],<ref name="TMW-VVM">{{cite web|url=http://thismodernworld.com/4657 |title=Oy |publisher=thismodernworld blog |accessdate=2009-05-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413041100/http://www.thismodernworld.com/4657 |archivedate=April 13, 2009 }}</ref> prompting his friend [[Eddie Vedder]] to post an open letter on the [[Pearl Jam]] website in support of the cartoonist.<ref name="Pearl Jam">{{cite web|url=https://pearljam.com/news/modern-world-needs-your-help|title=This Modern World Needs Your Help|publisher=Pearl Jam website|accessdate=2017-06-05|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715113202/https://pearljam.com/news/modern-world-needs-your-help|archivedate=2009-07-15}}</ref>