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What comes after Peanuts? Unfortunately: Q-Nuts.
This week’s comic is Q-Nuts: “Don’t Say Gay, Charlie Brown.”
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ICYII last week, yesterday The Nib published Chagrin Falls: “Boiling Frogs, All the Way Down.”
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Hey, I just dipped my toe into a relationship with the t-shirt company Threadless. They have lower prices than Zazzle, so you win and I lose. No pressure, but if you buy three times as many t-shirts, the switch will be worth it for me!
Here are the two Tom the Dancing Bug designs I have on there now. If you order a shirt (or three!), let me know what you think.
Info here.
(various styles, colors, and of course sizes available)
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This week’s Classic Tom the Dancing Bug (published on GoComics yesterday) is “Evolution of a Hip, Ironic Catchphrase” (from 1998).
On the request of, and with thanks to, Inner Hive member Meredith H., whose sheer awesomeness helps make Tom the Dancing Bug possible.
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And this week the GoComics Super-Fun-Pak Comix page has featured comics from this installment (from 2014).
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Finally, a quick thank you to everyone who came to the MoCCA Art Fest last weekend! It was a pleasure to meet you all!
Okay, that’s it. As always, more ways to Dance the Tom Bug below.
See you next week. Until then,
Everybody Wang Chung Tonight,
Rb
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Two new Tom the Dancing Bug books are here! Order 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.
Ordering info here.
The back cover of Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens:
Order directly from me (with the “2021 New Book Package,” here’s the link again), and you’ll also get this exclusive pdf booklet with “Artist’s” materials, and these authenticated bookmarks. And I’ll sketch in the books and sign them, to you personally if you like.
The offer of the 2021 New Book Package expires when Volume 5 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug is released in late April.
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