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Today I’m posting last week’s comic here in the Review, as another reminder of the content you’ll get every week in the Inner Hive.
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Reminder:
I’ll be spending a couple of hours at the MoCCA Arts Fest in NYC, a very cool alternative comics festival on Sunday, signing/sketching/selling books*, palling around, chin wagging, fist-bumping, moonwalking, kissing babies, and toasting beers (you bring the beers, and we’ll toast!)
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Sunday, March 29 11am-2:30pm, Table 68 (National Cartoonists Society Table) MoCCA Arts Fest 125 West 18th Street, NYC
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “NEWS OF THE TIMES - Scientists: Doomsday Asteroid to Hit Earth in June” (from 2018).
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Volume 1, Tom the Dancing Bug: Secret Origins (1990-1994), Kickstarted for 2026 (closed)
Volume 2, Sex, Tom the Dancing Bug, & Rock ‘n’ Roll (1995-1998), Kickstarted for 2026 (closed)
Volume 3, On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug (1999-2002), published June 2023
Volume 4, Tom the Dancing Bug: All-Mighty Comics (2003-2006), published October 2022.
Volume 5, Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor (2007-2011), published June 2022.
Volume 6, Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens (2012-2015), published December 2021.
Volume 7, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse (2016-2019), published August 2020.
Volume 8, “It’s the Great Storm, Tom the Dancing Bug!” (2020-2023), published July 2024
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Clover Press’s Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program bursts forward with the eighth chronological volume, covering all of the most recent installments of the comic strip, a two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, from 2020-2023.
It’s the Great Storm, Tom the Dancing Bug! includes Bolling’s award-winning work covering the last year of the Trump presidency and the post-term MAGA insanity. All the favorite Tom the Dancing Bug characters try to make sense of the dark times of the early 2020s, including: the Smythe family of Chagrin Falls; Lucky Ducky, the poor little duck who’s rich in luck; and Billy Dare, boy adventurer. Also in the volume is Bolling’s comic contribution to “Weird Al” Yankovic’s hit graphic novel, The Illustrated Al.
Tom the Dancing Bug is the wildly popular, groundbreaking comic strip that has won multiple awards, including the Herblock Prize, the Berryman Award, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Mark Hamill called it “wondrous, whimsical, and witty,” and Seth Meyers recently wrote, “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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