Across Ye Olde Inter-Net to You

Here comes the latest Newsletter

Sep 10, 2021

Hello, I hope you all enjoyed your week off from these urgent mailings.

This week’s comic is the FOURTH installment of the chronicling of the History of Doug, covering the Terrible ‘10s and the Terribler ‘20s.

Read this week’s Tom the Dancing Bug on GoComics HERE.
Read this week’s Tom the Dancing Bug on BoingBoing HERE.
Read this week’s Tom the Dancing Bug on DailyKos HERE.

Next week, I’ll go back to chronicling the Terribler things going on.

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Last week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday), and the previous week’s, were the two-part “Tale of Ye Olde Inter-Nets” (from 2014).

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And the past two weeks’ GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from these two installments (from 2009).

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Enough! Stay out of trouble, everybody! Otis (fig. 1, below) is celebrating his 11-month birthday tomorrow; his favorite gifts are Inner Hive membership and book purchases (scroll down for info).

Yours Indeed,

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Two new Tom the Dancing Bug books are being published in November, and are now available for pre-order! You can reserve your copies today.

TOM THE DANCING BUG AWAKENS, VOLUME 6 IN THE COMPLETE TOM THE DANCING BUG -- 2012-2015. This volume covers the Obama years and the rise of Trump, and it includes the introduction of the feature Chagrin Falls and installments of many other Tom the Dancing Bug favorites, such as God-Man, Lucky Ducky, and Super-Fun-Pak Comix. It also includes other comics Ruben Bolling created during those years: a two-page New Yorker spread, and six daily installments of the comic strip Cul de Sac.

TOM THE DANCING BUG, WITHOUT THE BAD ONES: THE VERY, VERY, VERY* BEST OF TOM THE DANCING BUG, 1991-2021. 31 years in the making, this book collects the top, most popular, most talked-about, most important, most Tom-the-Dancing-Bug comics in Tom the Dancing Bug's history. Imagine the thrill of reading and owning the award-winning and award-losing comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug, distilled into one handsome tome containing only its scientifically determined very, very, VERY* best.

Ordering info here.

The back cover of Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens:

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My email address is tomdbug@gmail.com

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*VERY!!!!