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This week’s comic presents the page on African American history from the new Florida edition of an American History textbook…
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Speaking of Neil Gaiman…
As I get the word out about my new book On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug, Volume 3 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, I realized many newcomers to this newsletter and the comic strip haven’t seen the incredible endorsements the multi-volume program received when it was launched in 2020.
I realized I owe it to myself and to my publisher to at least post them once for this volume here in The Tom the Dancing Bug Review, so here goes:
"Ruben Bolling's craft and commentary are as powerful and as pointed, as capable of making you laugh while breaking your heart as they were when we were all so very young." – from Neil Gaiman's Foreword to Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse
"God bless Tom the Dancing Bug! Funny, succinct, and highly original, Ruben Bolling is able to make sense from the chaos and tragedy of America's political nightmares and make you laugh while doing it. An increasingly rare and more difficult feat these extra bleak days. This is worth your time and money. Do it!" -David Cross
"Behold the wondrous, whimsical, witty world that is Tom the Dancing Bug! If you're someone who's not a fan of potent political humor with an incisive absurdist twist that's not only consistently funny, but downright therapeutic for an ailing world, I suggest you avoid this book like the plague. For everyone else, it's a MUST-READ!" -Mark Hamill
"Delve into the dementia, the dread, and the delightfulness of this collection of Tom the Dancing Bug's strips -- it's history through the lens of a self-loathing insomniac. In a way, it's all of us." -Patton Oswalt
"Ruben Bolling has been sending me his secret messages for years, in the form of comics printed first on paper, and then, once paper became extinct, on the internet. I don't know exactly what he's trying to tell me, except he seems to know about everything I find funny, delightful, strange and inexplicable to get my attention, from obscure literary references to negging deep dish pizza. I don't understand exactly what exactly he's trying to say to me, but I still obsessively keep reading, not just because he's hilarious, but because someday I hope to find out who this Tom the bug is, and why he is dancing." -Peter Sagal
"This fine collection of work by Mr. Bolling provides ample evidence as to why he is unanimously considered one of the greatest cartoonists in the known universe. How he would rank in that other part of the universe is, of course, a matter that’s still being hotly debated within the scientific community.” -“Weird Al” Yankovic
"I am a HUGE fan of Tom the Dancing Bug! It makes me laugh and think of course but it makes me feel better. No kidding, I read it and I think, someone else thinks like me, only funnier and better informed and I feel good. Thank you Ruben Bolling for giving us Tom The Dancing Bug. (Can't decide whether to capitalize ‘the’)." -Gary Gulman
"The fact that Tom the bug can keep dancing in this day and age is a testament to Ruben Bolling’s skills as a cartoonist!" -Seth Meyers
“Each week Ruben Bolling takes an unassuming little blank white rectangle and fills it up with clever cartoonery, sneaky commentary, and more political laughs than you can shake a stick at. All hail Tom the Dancing Bug!” -Matt Groening
Honestly, I was so blown away by these blurbs. They may be the highest accomplishment the comic strip has ever achieved, and I’m beyond grateful to these amazing people.
If you were ever thinking about buying On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug, or any volume in The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug series, surely these blurbs will put you over the edge??? Warning: Don’t click too hard on the link below, or you may damage your device.
Click here to buy On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug.
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Okay, this week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “NRA Spokesmascot Eddie Eagle’s Guide to Teen Safety” (from 1999).
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2002).
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Yours Indeed,
Rb
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