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Jan 12, 2024

Hello, fellow citizens!

This week’s comic is “How the Next President Gets Elected.”

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Announcing the 2023 Tom the Dancing Bug Annual!

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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “Bob’s Adventure Through Time” (from 2000).

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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2007).

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Okay, buddies. That’s it for this week. Stay safe, stay well, and stay good.

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The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program continues with its brandest newest book:

Volume 3 - On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug!!

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TOM THE DANCING BUG: ALL-MIGHTY COMICS, VOLUME 3 IN THE COMPLETE TOM THE DANCING BUG -- 1999-2002. Clover Press’s Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program strides confidently ahead with the third chronological volume, covering every installment of the comic strip, a two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, from 1999-2002.
This volume not only includes the comic strip’s favorite formats and characters, such as Super-Fun-Pak Comix, God-Man, the Omnipotent Superhero, Charley the Australopithecine, and its cover character Billy Dare, Boy Adventurer, it also includes the strip’s famed and award-winning urgent turn into political satire following 9/11. Also in the volume is Ruben Bolling’s brief run of monthly full-page comics for The New Yorker, and a special comic for The Village Voice on the 2000 Subway World Series.
Tom the Dancing Bug is the wildly popular, groundbreaking comic strip that Mark Hamill called “wondrous, whimsical, and witty,” and that led Seth Meyers to recently write, “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!”

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