Happy Friday, people!
This week’s comic takes place on Counter-Earth! You won’t believe why Counter-Earth’s USA can’t have any vaccine requirements…
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I’m told that the interview I did with the Cool Tools podcast is going to be released sometime today. Listen in if you’d like to hear me talk to Kevin Kelly and my BoingBoing pal Mark Frauenfelder about the tools I use to draw my comics, to sign and extensively sketch in books (oh, hint, hint), and to almost but not quite get lost in the woods.
Spoiler alert: I get a lot more advice and information from Kevin and Mark, about the tools that I use, than I give.
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is the first Q-Nuts comic: “It’s the Great Storm, Charlie Brown” (from this past January, of course).
Nice that it’s Halloween-themed!
On the request of, and with thanks to, Inner Hive member Wolfie M., who helps make this comic possible.
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2010).
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That’s it! We’re almost at the publication date for the two new Tom the Dancing Bug books! Please do order below to be sure you get your copies!
And here is your weekly Otis picture: Otis and his little (tiny!) friend, when my wife leaves the room.
Have a Happy Halloween, folks!
Rb
From 2016…
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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, 1990-2021. 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.
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The back cover of Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens:
Order directly from me (with the “2021 New Book Package” at this link), and you’ll also get this exclusive pdf booklet with “Artist’s” materials, and these authenticated bookmarks.
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