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This week’s comic is a Super-Fun-Pak Comix, featuring “The Six Million Dollar Man Meets Bigfoot,” “How to Make Money Drawing Doug,” and much, much, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more.
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BIG TOM THE DANCING BUG NEWS:
It's Volume 3 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, ON THE TRAIL OF TOM THE DANCING BUG, compiling the complete comics from 1999-2002, is currently chugging its way to American shores.
Clover Press's promotional copy for the book:
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!”
Here’s the back cover:
I'm now taking pre-orders for copies that I will sign, personalize, draw an illustration in, and throw in an authenticated bookmark and two stickers! As always, I'll send them out in the order in which I receive the orders.
PRE-ORDER ON THE TRAIL OF TOM THE DANCING BUG!!
Please do!
And:
VISIT THE TOM THE NEW DANCING BUG STORE to peruse the entire Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program, and more!
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “The Top Secret Files of Dick Cheney” (from 2014).
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2000).
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I’ll be filling in as a writer for Boing Boing for a couple of months. Here are a few of the items I wrote recently:
Watch this video of chimps helping to heal a sick street puppy if you want to be happy
Indian official drained reservoir to retrieve phone he dropped it in
Mutation causes woman to live virtually pain, fear and anxiety-free, with ability to heal rapidly
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That’s it for this week. I’ll leave you with this photo of Otis the Wonderdog (right), two years old and full of pep, with his friend Ziggy (left). Ziggy, 13 years old and partially blind and deaf, would not chase Otis on the beach no matter how many times Otis beckoned him.
Ah, youth.
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Happy Trails,
Rb
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